Maria Morera Johnson

We're so grateful to @KatiePMcGrady and @thecatholicchannel for covering the Mattie J.T. Stepanek Guild and the work we're doing toward opening Mattie's cause! This recent podcast that covers a mad dash for a relic and granted miracle! podbean.com/ew/pb-y33ir-1a…

@KatiePMcGrady @CatholicChannel Hey! I’m the biographer for an amazing young man whose cause we’re hoping to open. Inspiring life of Mattie Stepanek!

I literally never do this, but we just had a guest spot open up for the show tomorrow morning, so now's your moment to send a pitch if you'd like to come on @CatholicChannel at 8:40 a.m. CT

“The first Christian service on our soil was a Catholic mass.” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio deliveres a powerful speech reminding America of its deep Catholic heritage

Continuing to be two planes that pass in the night in the dreariest of airport chapels, but said a prayer for @mattswaim and @morninganna nonetheless.

This episode is so interesting! There’s a mad dash with a relic of Saint Andre Bessette!!!

@franciscanmom This is a thing

My deadline on this writing project is 8 days away and all I want to do is clean out the medicine cabinet in the downstairs bathroom.

@franciscanmom very unlikely hahaha. I do love to pray in the chapels when I visit the Pauline centers, but I keep my mouth shut. I'm flat and often off key 🎵🎶

Was this you @bego?

Happening this weekened!

Where are you @mattswaim ? I guess I can just listen to you and @morninganna, appropriately, with earbuds.

Join us for this novena starting today. Ven. Patrick Peyton, pray for us. blog.familyrosary.org/world-at-praye…

@JamesMartinSJ So sorry for your loss. May she rest in peace. Prayers for you and your family.

Please pray for the eternal rest of my mother, Eleanor Spano Martin, who died today at 94 in Abington, Pa. She had only recently developed pneumonia which quickly led to her death this afternoon. I can’t express in words what my sister and I are feeling, how grateful I am to God for her long life, how sad the last few days have been, how devastating it was to see her gasp for air this morning and how moving it was to see the hospice nurse rub her lips with a sponge, which made me cry when I thought about Jesus on the Cross. Today I want to thank my sister Carolyn for being my mom’s selfless and primary caregiver, especially after she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and then dementia; for Charles for being a wonderful son in law and for Charles and Matthew for being beloved grandsons. A few days ago, I was terrified I would be stuck in California because of the blizzard, and I called my mom to tell her how I would do everything to get home and she said, through her oxygen mask, “Goody gumdrops.” I thank God I got home early this morning, that a kind Jesuit plowed the car out for me yesterday so that I could drive from New York to Philly at 2 AM, pray the Rosary next to her bed (“now and at the hour of our death”), anoint her with Lourdes water and, most of all, tried to thank her for everything she had done for me: from giving me life, to driving me to school, to teaching me to draw, to baking birthday cakes, to cooking dinners, to encouraging me in my studies, to dealing with the shock of my Jesuit vocation, to being friends with all my friends, to being the biggest fan of anything I wrote or said or did. She wasn’t perfect but she was my mom in every way. The other day the First Reading was how God’s word goes out, does its work and returns to God. I kept thinking about my mom when we read it during a Mass at a friend’s house in California, especially since I was desperate to get home. Today, I kept looking at her frail body that had been through so much in the last few years—cancer, dementia, frequent falls, stitches—and saw how spent it was after it had done what God had asked it to do Nothing I could write could describe my unbelievable sadness or my deep gratitude at being with her in her last moments, as she was with me in my first moments. It would take dozens of books. Mom, I wish you sky-blue-pink days with your beloved mother and father, your brothers Larry and Louis, my dad, and all those who loved and knew you. Please pray for me and Carolyn. Saying goodbye to you today, and hugging you goodbye, was almost impossible, but I know we will see each other in the fullness of time. Love you, Mom.

The Archdiocese of New York joins with the Church Universal in rejoicing at today’s announcement that the beatification of Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will soon take place.

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the day-o scene from beetlejuice is probably one of the most iconic scenes in cinematic history thanks to catherine o'hara’s incredible comedic timing and physical comedy. what a huge loss it is to hear of her passing, rip to an icon ❤️

would you like a little mid-January pick-me-up? Jake Frost shares a sweet snow-day reflection at Catholicmom.com. You can listen to the audio here 📷 CatholicMomAudioArticles.podbean.com/e/snowed-in/

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Did I become an English teacher because I learned this little ditty so well? Maybe.

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@franciscanmom @TwoApostlesName this needs a laugh button

@TwoApostlesName One of the reasons I decommissioned Alexa.

Me: play song “in old Judea.” Siri: OK, I’ll play some songs like that, starting with purple haze by the Jimi Hendrix experience