A Catholic Gift Book for Mothers: Prayers, Reflections, and Encouragement for Women Who Love and Give (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798189794049)

Motherhood asks for a love that is patient, sacrificial, and faithful, often in ways that no one else can see.

A Catholic Gift Book for Mothers offers a place of prayer and encouragement for the woman who feeds, comforts, teaches, corrects, forgives, worries, and begins again. It does not present an image of perfect motherhood or another standard against which a tired woman must measure herself. Instead, it gently leads mothers back to the grace and mercy of God.

Each of the thirty chapters includes a passage from the Douay-Rheims Bible, a substantial devotional reflection, a prayer, and a small act of maternal faithfulness. The book explores the vocation of motherhood, patience and gentleness, family prayer, the Mass and Confession, hidden sacrifice, weariness, wandering children, and the enduring legacy of faith and love.

Readers will also find:

• prayers for particular seasons and struggles
• a litany for Catholic mothers
• Scripture passages for encouragement
• saints who accompany mothers
• a blessing to pray over children
• a gentle examination of conscience

Warm, reverent, and deeply Catholic, this book is a meaningful companion for mothers, grandmothers, godmothers, expectant mothers, and women seeking to love their families with greater faith.