Catholic Mom

Catholic Mom

The Catholic Mom platform offers something for everyone – daily Gospel reflections, podcasts, activities for children during Mass, and sound advice for parents in every stage of family life. 

Mothers around the world share a desire to nurture faith in their families and shepherd the hearts of their children. Catholic Mom offers free resources for Mothers to plant seeds of faith in their families!  The Catholic Mom platform offers something for everyone – podcasts, activities to do at Mass, and sound advice from women for families in every stage of life. 

In Introducing Prayer: Sing a Song, the author, Nicole Berlucchi, explains how she began singing the Hail Mary as a lullaby to her first baby. Before she knew it, the baby was singing, and praying, along with her. “They might not realize the significance of the song’s words, but what a precious way of sealing that song in their heart."

Catholic Momcast is another free resource! A recent episode titled Moms Who Pray features Maria Morera Johnson and Lisa Hendey sharing a conversation with Heidi Hess Saxton, author of The Ave Prayer Book for Catholic Mothers. This book features prayers for grandmothers, new moms, moms with children going off to college, and everything in between! It was compiled through contributions from 40 mothers in different stages of life. Catholic Mom encourages parents to nurture faith in their families by praying for and with their children, through every season of life.

Catholic Mom also provides engaging Sunday Gospel Activities to help children explore each week’s Mass readings. These coloring pages, lesson plans, Mass worksheets, and puzzles are free for you to print and share with your family, classroom, or parish. 

Catholic Mom contributor, Maria Riley, shares this advice for new mothers for the Momcast episode, Momming Up, “Always remember that your daughter/son is God's child, who has been entrusted to your care for a short while. Your job isn't raising a perfect child, only loving him/her the way the Father loves you: selflessly and unconditionally.” As parents continue to plant the seeds of faith, we try to help them remember, we can only do our best as we allow God to do the rest.