Dear Parents
A Gift of Love for Families
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by Catherine Doherty
Out of print
156 pages — Trade Paperback, 5.5" x 8.25"
Madonna House Publications, 1997
ISBN 0-921440-44-8
The author: wife, mother, single parent, prophet, and working mom.
Are you a parent wondering how to celebrate your faith with your family; how to find peace and holiness in little, everyday things; how to live a simple, ordered life in a materialistic, disordered world? Or are you a pastor, a family life worker, involved in marriage preparation? Dear Parents: A Gift of Love for Families, by Catherine Doherty, is for you.
Read Marriage: A Call to Love; Home: A Place to Love; Restoring the Home to Christ; Going Deeper; Letting Go (of growing children); Poverty and Detachment; Searching for God; Learning about Prayer. Talks on family feasts and seasons. You will find light, hope, encouragement, and support for your faith.
Reviews
“Of course, we don't always recognize saints by their canonization. Many parents qualify, though no one beyond their adult children may see them as such. Catherine de Hueck Doherty, the founder of Madonna House, seemed to have had those people in mind when she wrote the pieces now included in Dear Parents. Doherty speaks frankly, and her observations may spur some parents to repent their previous practices. Still, her goal is not to scold, but to encourage, and to continually lift Christ before the parents.” — David Morrison, New Covenant
About the Author
Catherine Doherty used her heritage as a Russian Christian as a matrix for responding to the needs of Christian life and work in the modern world. Her own personal pilgrimage led her to be “poor with the poor Christ” in the slums of Toronto and in Harlem; and later to the establishing of the world-wide Madonna House Apostolate. A dedicated wife and mother, Catherine was also a prolific writer of hundreds of articles, a best-selling author of dozens of books, a renowned national speaker, and a pioneer of social justice. Catherine Doherty's cause for canonization as a saint is now under consideration by the Catholic Church.
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