Embracing Motherhood: 2014

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Pausing to ponder the meaning of the season

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Pausing to ponder the meaning of the season: Pausing to ponder the meaning of Advent and endeavoring to keep the kids focused on the holy season. Have a look here . God bless you a...

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Wednesday on Catholic Mom's Cafe plus contests!

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Wednesday on Catholic Mom's Cafe plus contests!: Hello! Did you see yesterday's show: Kids and the Culture"? Did you like it? Tell me about in the comments below. Also, please t...

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Tuesday's show: Kids and the Culture and CONTESTS!...

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Tuesday's show: Kids and the Culture and CONTESTS!...: Hello! Did you see yesterday's show: The Skinny of Catholic Fashion"? Did you like it? Tell me about in the comments below. Also...

Monday, November 3, 2014

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Here's the scoop on the contests this week

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Here's the scoop on the contests this week: Hello! So, there's lots of buzz going on with the launch of my new TV series on EWTN Catholic Mom's Cafe. I am running contests a...

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Catholic Mom's Cafe TV series launches TOMORROW an...

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Catholic Mom's Cafe TV series launches TOMORROW an...: My brand new television series Catholic Mom's Cafe will launch on EWTN tomorrow ! The first show will air at 3:00 AM ET and later...

Friday, October 31, 2014

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Are you ready for Friday BUNDLE contest?

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Are you ready for Friday BUNDLE contest?: I have been celebrating Catholic Moms and GrandMoms and all caregivers of children ALL month long! As you might know, my new EWTN TV series...

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Catholic Mom's Cafe: And the contests begin!

Catholic Mom's Cafe: And the contests begin!: Happy feast of Saint Therese! Today the month long contests begin to celebrate Catholic Moms and GrandMoms! All throughout the month of O...

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Win, celebrate, win, celebrate, win!

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Win, celebrate, win, celebrate, win!: My Mom is in the center. Her Mom is on the left. I love to celebrate Moms and GrandMoms. They have always been the unsung heroes to t...

Friday, September 19, 2014

View from the Domestic Church: THE SONG movie debuting SOON!

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

View from the Domestic Church: In honor of Mother Teresa's 104th birthday today!

Friday, July 25, 2014

Angels, Our Friends Indeed

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Mom-ism Monday # 4: Gluten-free pizza, planting fl...

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Mom-ism Monday # 4: Gluten-free pizza, planting fl...: How's your summer going? What's happening in your domestic church? Any recipes or parenting tips to share? 1) I made some yu...

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Create your summer family memories!

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Create your summer family memories!: My creating summer family memories article at Integrated Catholic Life . Enjoy! God bless, Donna-Marie

Thursday, July 3, 2014

View from the Domestic Church: My garlic scape pesto sauce!

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Catholic Mom's Cafe: "Mom-ism Monday # 3!

Catholic Mom's Cafe: "Mom-ism Monday # 3!: It's been a week end of special very beautiful feast days! I love the feasts of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Hear...

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Catholic Mom's Cafe: "Catholic Moms Cafe" Premiering in November!

Catholic Mom's Cafe: "Catholic Moms Cafe" Premiering in November!: Finally, (well, not quite yet) the show you have been waiting for! A new television series for Catholic Moms on EWTN TV called "Cat...

Monday, June 23, 2014

Catholic Mom's Cafe: It's time: Mom-ism Monday # 2!

Catholic Mom's Cafe: It's time: Mom-ism Monday # 2!: 1) Summer is here! Are you keeping your sanity intact? How about your prayer life? It's a bit challenging with a changing s...

Monday, June 16, 2014

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Celebrate your "Mom-isms!"

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Celebrate your "Mom-isms!": UPDATED POST! 1) Loving nature around us! I was absolutely thrilled that Mr. and Mrs. Wren decided to build a nest in the ...

Saturday, June 14, 2014

Keeping Prayer in Summer: A Mother's Strategy | Catholic World Report - Global Church news and views

Friday, June 13, 2014

View from the Domestic Church: My top 12 book picks to throw into your summer beach bag!

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Celebrate your "Mom-isms!"

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Celebrate your "Mom-isms!": An InLinkz Link-up The first link-up will open on Monday, June 16th! Stay tuned!

Friday, May 9, 2014

Recent radio chat discussing exciting upcoming events!

MOMS' NIGHT OUT!

Are you going to go out and see the MOMS' NIGHT OUT movie? I hope so! It's a highly entertaining family movie!

Here's a link to my interview with Patricia Heaton in the National Catholic Register: http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/motherhood-at-the-movies/

God bless you and yours!

Saturday, April 5, 2014

God's grace and "Prayerfully Expecting" sustained her

A woman name Brooke wrote the following review about my book Prayerfully Expecting: A Nine Month Novena for Mothers to Be:

"When I first found out I was pregnant with out first baby I remember a friend telling me about this novena book. I bought it and loved it so much. I took my time with it and would journal in the pages and write little notes. When my husband and I found out that our baby was most likely going to end in a miscarriage we were devastated. However, this little book was an incredible source of grace through that difficult time. Our first did end up miscarrying. We named him Jack, and even though I only got to month 2 in the book, I can look back on what I wrote and prayed at the time and smile thinking of our precious, but short time with him. We are so happy to know that we are expecting again and I just bought another one to help pray through this baby. Definitely recommend for any mom who is seeking spiritual strength in this beautiful time in their life."
[as seen on Amazon]

May God bless you, dear Brooke. Your baby is a saint in heaven!

Please feel free, everyone, to share your pregnancy stories in the comments below and with one another in your daily lives to inspire and encourage. I will soon have a special place again for "Prayerfully Expecting" news.

God bless you and keep you!

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Prayer is a surge of the heart!

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Prayer is a surge of the heart!: Hello! "Prayer is a surge of the heart!" according to Saint Therese of Lisieux. Recently I was teaching my second grade ...

Sunday, March 23, 2014

View from the Domestic Church: A review in the National Catholic Register

Monday, February 24, 2014

View from the Domestic Church: SON OF GOD movie

Friday, February 21, 2014

A Mother's Intuition

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Practicing the virtues...

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

View from the Domestic Church: God's timing is impeccable!

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

View from the Domestic Church: My recent EWTN Bookmark appearance!

Discussing two of my books on EWTN's Bookmark!

Discussing Embracing Motherhood and The Miraculous Medal books

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Appearing on Women of Grace all this week!

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Appearing on Women of Grace all this week!: Watch Monday through Friday at 11:00AM/11:30PM Tune in this week to EWTN's Women of Grace! I am visiting with Johnnet...

Monday, January 13, 2014

View from the Domestic Church: Angels for Kids!

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Delicious gluten-free pizza on the grill!

Catholic Mom's Cafe: Delicious gluten-free pizza on the grill!: Our oven isn't working and we had a hankering for home-made gluten-free pizza. We love the pizza crust from "Against the Grain.&qu...

Embracing Motherhood

"In this small volume, Embracing Motherhood, Ms. Cooper O'Boyle offers a sensitive reflection on what it means to tune into faith, hope, and charity, living out the vocation of raising children, passing on our Catholic faith, and providing our kids with the necessary roots and wings to live virtuously. Mothers and fathers too can grow spiritually from this book, and draw inspiration from her tender perspective. This is a substantive and practical gem as well as an ode of joy for God's gift of motherhood!"~Reverend Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York

Prayerfully Expecting: A Nine Month Novena for Mothers-To-Be

I wrote this book while on complete bed rest during a high risk pregnancy with my fifth child, Mary-Catherine. Blessed Mother Teresa whom I knew at that time, gave me a foreword for the book. Pope John Paul II blessed it. It is a book to celebrate pregnancy as a wonderful time of anticipation as mothers await childbirth and it offers the expectant Mom the opportunity to transform her pregnancy into a novena of prayer to God. It's a "baby book" for the unborn baby! An expectant Mom will be able to follow her baby's progress and record her thoughts and prayers as well as save her ultrasound pictures to cherish in years to come.

Here's a link to my chat with Brian Patrick on the Son Rise Morning show discussing pregnancy and motherhood. My spot is about 3/4 through the segment. Click here.

A Catholic Woman's Book of Prayers

With all the mixed messages that women receive from society today, women can be distracted from--and even unreceptive to--the deep and abiding love that Christ has for them. Whether single or married, religious or consecrated, parenting children, or spiritually mentoring others, women need to know that the Lord understands the many challenges they face, their desire for inspiration, and, above all, their need to be affirmed as women.Through this book of original and traditional prayers from one of the top ten most fascinating Catholics of 2009 as rated by Faith & Family Live, women can realize God's divine Love, thrive in inspiration from Saints and the Church and rest in the affirmation of the "feminine genius." (order above by clicking book image)

My radio segments with Teresa Tomeo on "Catholic Connection" on Ave Maria Radio

First,*** Second,*** Third, *** Fourth, *** Fifth - Prayerfully Expecting and how I met Mother Teresa,*** Sixth - Addressing the comments in the media about Mother Teresa's supposed "crisis of faith",*** Seventh - Culture's pressure on our girls,*** Eighth - Halloween, All Saints and All Souls Days,*** Ninth - Thanksgiving: Keeping it sane, simple, & holy,*** Tenth - Christmas reflections*** Eleventh - Discussing the International Women's Congress in Rome*** Twelth - Discussing our Vatican trip as delegates*** Thirteenth - Discussing Holy Week*** Fourteenth - Interview with Teresa about my new book, Catholic Saints Prayer Book *** summertime prayer and proper summer attire for Mass, among other things, you can listen here. My two newest books coming out in early October, Teresa's new book and our EWTN segments airing all throughout August by clicking here. Teresa Tomeo and me discussing my new books and other topics brought up by the callers who called in to the show and won copies of my books, just click here. you can click here to listen at any time. Teresa and I chatted about the new book I am writing as well as taking the time to pause and recharge your "batteries" by going on retreat and with prayer. Pressures on Moms these days and some prayer strategies. Just click here. Back-to-School - Just click here to listen. Here's an Autumn theme - Halloween, All Saints Day, retreats, news, helping the youth, and more. Just click here to listen. A Christmas theme: "Jesus at the Post Office," Just click here to listen.

Catholic Exchange

"Donna has submitted a number of articles that have found a place on the Catholic Exchange website, enriching our readers with her insights into the lives of modern women. She writes with a broad comprehension of the rapidly changing scene of this world, and with deep understanding of the challenges faced by Catholic women – and all women – today. It is clear from her writing that she believes in the power of women to make the world a better place and she is not afraid to challenge women to start that transformation in their own hearts and homes. Catholic Exchange readers have been very blessed to have Donna share her thoughts with them and as editor, I have been blessed by the high professional quality of Donna’s work." --Mary Kochan, Senior Editor

Radiating Christ

Dear Jesus,help me to spread Your fragrance everywhere I go. Flood my soul with Your Spirit and Life. Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly that my life may only be a radiance of Yours. Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul. Let then look up, and see no longer me, but only Jesus! Stay with me and then I will begin to shine as You shine, so as to shine as to be a light to others. The light, O Jesus, will be all from You; none of it will be mine. It will be You, shining on others through me. Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words but by example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears for You. Amen.

Composed by John Henry Cardinal Newman and one of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta's favorite prayers. She TRULY LIVED this prayer!

Totus Tuus

Immaculate Conception, Mary, my Mother. Live in me. Act in me. Speak in and through me. Think your thoughts in my mind. Love, through my heart. Give me your dispositions and feelings. Teach, lead and guide me to Jesus. Correct, enlighten and expand my thoughts and behavior. Possess my soul. Take over my entire personality and life. Replace it with yourself. Incline me to constant adoration and thanksgiving. Pray in me and through me. Let me live in you and keep me in this union always. – Pope John Paul II

In addition to my books, I have written for...

The English edition of L'Osservatore Romano (Vatican newspaper)

Currently write for national publications: The National Catholic Register and the Our Sunday Visitor newsweekly. Have written for: The Catholic Transcript, The News Times, The New Milford Times, Hearth magazine, Canticle magazine, Lay Witness magazine, Faith & Family magazine, CarbLite magazine, On the Web - Catholic Exchange, Catholic Lane, and Catholic Online, and Catholic Mom.com. I wrote a parenting column for Irish Family Press (print edition), a Catholic weekly newspaper published in Ireland, (online edition now available). My articles have appeared in other countries, such as Nigeria and Singapore. My book Catholic Prayer Book for Mothers has been translated into Russian.

PRAYERS ARE NEEDED...(prayer requests change periodically, so please look through) for a man who died whom his sister feels what not in a state of grace, for a woman I met at a retreat I gave in Texas whose baby died, for a woman who struggles with her husband's addiction and for help for the family, for a young family in need of prayer, for a friend with breast cancer, for families everywhere who struggle in our culture today, for the folks at EWTN who work hard to bring you Catholic news and inspiration. Let's be sure to pray for all of our priests everywhere who are certainly in need of prayers to continue their work each day!

Parents are the FIRST and foremost educators of their children!

"Since parents have conferred life on their children, they have a most solemn obligation to educate their offspring. Hence, parents must be acknowledged as the first and foremost educators of their children. Their role as educators is so decisive that scarcely anything can compensate for their failure in it. For it devolves on parents to create a family atmosphere so animated with love and reverence for God and others that a well-rounded personal and social development will be fostered among children. Hence, the family is the first school of those social virtues which every society needs."--Gravissimum Educationis (one of the documents of the Second Vatican Council)