{"id":2272,"date":"2005-09-19T08:55:16","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T08:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/catholic-womans-book-of-days.html"},"modified":"2005-09-19T08:55:16","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T08:55:16","slug":"catholic-womans-book-of-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/catholic-womans-book-of-days.html","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Woman’s Book of Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people have asked exactly what it is – the Amazon listing I have linked on the right is not helpful, so I’ll change that soon. The Loyola list has a bit more information.<\/a> It’s a 365-devotional, small, compact. Every day’s entry begins with a Scripture quote, then has a couple of paragraphs of material to focus prayer – perhaps a story, a question – usually both. It’s appropriate for women of any age. Sometimes the stories you read in these devotionals are real stories – apocryphal little tales about characters who find themselves in challenging, yet ultimately hopeful situations. Mine’s all pulled from real life. It follows the liturgical seasons in a general way – we want it used from year to year, so we couldn’t be too specific, but for example, the March entries have a fairly obviously Lenten theme, the May entries tend to focus on resurrection themes, December is Advent\/preparation. Several saints’ days are noted and celebrated. I don’t have them up for sale yet, but once I get this other book finished, I’m going to revamp the bookstore and put it up, so if you want to wait til then, it’s all good. As far as we know, it’s the only devotional of this kind – the Christian bookstores are full of such books for women from an evangelical perspective, but Loyola thought it would be a good idea to do one specifically for Catholic women, and very kindly invited me to write it…<\/p>\n

Which I did, an experience akin to pulling teeth. After I finished, there was the vague invitation, "Now how about one for teens…" I ran away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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