“Pioneers” with facilitators (one graduate is missing from photo)
The pioneer group of Young Women of Grace has officially graduated!
Graduation Day for Young Women of Grace Pioneers!
Category Archives: Women of Grace
Advent: Hushing our Hurried Hearts
Now that we’ve got Thanksgiving under our (slightly loosened) belts, it’s time to turn our attention to something – new. While to our worldly senses, the year is winding down with a celebratory month of shopping, singing, decorating, and baking, our liturgical year has really – very quietly – just begun. Read the rest…
Delicious Corn Casserole Recipe
Delicious Corn Casserole Recipe Read the rest…
Women of Grace in South Florida Celebrate the Close of the Year of Mercy
Women of Grace at Our Lady of Mercy in Deerfield Beach, Florida celebrated a grace-filled First Saturday on November 4th. These beautiful sacred sisters attended morning Mass together and then processed through the Holy Doors, designated for the Jubilee Year of Mercy. Together they prayed for the Holy Father, Pope Francis’s intentions to receive the Plenary Indulgence. Read the rest…
Harrisburg Bishop Praises Women of Grace Program!
Johnnette signing copies of her new book, “Graceful Living,” at the First Annual Women’s Conference in the diocese of Allentown
The Most Rev. Ronald W. Gainer, bishop of the Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has issued a ringing endorsement of the Women of Grace program, calling it a program that has produced good fruits in the lives of women for the past decade.
Pro-Life Doctor Calls Us to Pray and Act
This weekend I spoke at the Diocese of Allentown’s Inaugural Women’s Conference. It was a tremendous blessing and honor to meet Bishop John Barres, speak alongside Helen Alvare, Founder of Women Speak for Themselves, and meet the beautiful women of the Diocese of Allentown. Read the rest…
Women of Grace at the Padre Pio Festival
Bonnie Torpey, Susan Jacobsen, Nancy Elhajj, Antonetta Mosca and Lori Citsay represented the Women of Grace sacred sisterhood at an information table at the 16th annual Padre Pio Festival in Vineland, New Jersey on September 25, 2016. Over 8000 people had the opportunity to venerate the heart of Padre Pio that was brought to the United States for the first time by Capuchin Friars from the Shrine of St. Padre Pio in southern Italy. Read the rest…
Heaven Begins Now: Elizabeth of the Trinity
Young Elizabeth
Next month the Catholic galaxy will become a little brighter as the Church receives a new cluster of saints. Among the holy handful will be just one woman, a French Carmelite considered by Pope Saint John Paul II to be one the most influential mystics of his life.
Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity was born as Elizabeth Catez, “Sabeth” to her friends, in 1880. She was a hot-tempered child with sometimes “furious eyes” whose father died while she was young, forcing her mother to move Sabeth and her younger sister from their home in Dijon to a smaller second-story flat. From her window, little Sabeth could look down into the garden of the Carmelite convent. Read the rest…
Young Women of Grace Speak Up . . . From Trinidad!
(L/R) Emily Pouchet, Anna-Maria Williams, Vianney Williams, with Johnnette
Despite being less than six months since it’s official launch, Young Women of Grace is already making its way around the world. Riding on the wings of the Holy Spirit, it was brought to Trinidad where several young women took the course this summer and weren’t shy about telling us what they thought about it!
West Texas Women of Grace Thrives
We received the beautiful letter below from Beatriz Machuca, one of our Texas facilitators:
On August 15, 2016, the Feast Day of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, West Texas Catholic Communitie
