Ave Explores
Everyday Faith for Everyday Catholics
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Fruitfulness & Infertility with Timothy P. O'Malley
September 4th, 2020 | Season 6 | 39 mins 21 secs
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Timothy P. O’Malley, director of McGrath Theology Online at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, talks with host Katie Prejean McGrady about he and his wife Kara’s struggle with infertility. A professor who also teaches a course on marriage, O’Malley offers insights into discernment and dating for young adults, and ways that we can encourage prayer as a family.
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Forming Families & Finding Joy with Marcia Lane McGee
September 2nd, 2020 | Season 6 | 54 mins 52 secs
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Marcia Lane McGee is a birth mother with an open adoption and a foster mom who lives with six teenage boys at the Mooseheart Home near Chicago. She tells host Katie Prejean McGrady that we are all called to creatively foster family life based on our unique state of life and vocation. Lane McGee also explains how we must invest in people, even when they are at their worst, to help them find joy and to lead them to a fullness of love in Christ.