{"id":15866,"date":"2018-09-04T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regnumchristi.org\/en\/?p=15866"},"modified":"2023-06-21T16:10:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T20:10:05","slug":"new-book-offers-advice-for-catholic-moms-of-college-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/new-book-offers-advice-for-catholic-moms-of-college-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book Offers Advice for Catholic Moms of College Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With the wisdom of a mother who has just finished sending her own four children off to college, and the experience of a woman who has learned to parent by placing her young-adult children in God\u2019s hands, she has written a new book called \u2026And So We Pray<\/em>–<\/em>Guidance for Moms of College-Aged Young Adults<\/em>. It offers 33 chapters of reflection, advice and prayer, to cover the 33 weeks of the academic year.<\/p>\n

During the time her children were in college, Maribeth says she really experienced how practical and applicable to real-life the Catholic faith can be, and how it helped her meet the spiritual, moral and parental challenges that she and her husband faced during those years.<\/p>\n

The idea of writing a book came to her after she met Laurel Howanitz, the founder of Praying College Moms<\/a>.\u00a0 This ministry, which had about 200 women meeting in small groups, was using a very good protestant book for their discussions over the last five years, but they really wanted something with a Catholic perspective. Maribeth called it a \u201cHoly Spirit moment.\u201d She clearly saw an opportunity to share her own thoughts and experiences, having sent four\u00a0through\u00a0college. She also wanted to involve others she knew who had valuable wisdom that could be of help to mothers, including fellow Regnum Christi members, Legionary priests, and Fr. Paul Scalia of the diocese of Arlington, VA, who wrote the foreword to the book.<\/p>\n

As a Regnum Christi member, Maribeth credits the movement with teaching her to pray, and to be faithful to prayer on a daily basis.\u00a0 Having seen the fruit of this in her own family life, she is passionate about teaching other women this discipline.\u00a0 To her, the opportunity to write a book was the perfect opportunity to share her enthusiasm for daily prayer and ask other people she knows with deep spiritual lives to contribute as well.<\/p>\n

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