Ave Explores
Everyday Faith for Everyday Catholics
Displaying all 8 Episode of Ave Explores with the tag “family”.
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Patron Saints for the Family with Karianna Frey
October 30th, 2020 | Season 7 | 53 mins 6 secs
family, liturgical living, patron saints, prayer
Karianna Frey, author of A Brief Overview of Diversity, discusses how patron saints can bring spiritual depth, personal healing, and comfort to a family. Frey shares which saints have been particularly inspiring to her own family and how she has chosen to entrust each of her four children to a saint.
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Broken Saints for Broken People with Meg Hunter-Kilmer
October 28th, 2020 | Season 7 | 46 mins 13 secs
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Meg Hunter-Kilmer, author of the forthcoming Saints Around the World, loves to tell stories of the saints, especially those who are not as well known. She shares how growing close to holy men and women has helped her to love Christ more. Hunter-Kilmer says each saint she’s grown close to has been a unique match during particular challenges in her life.
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Welcoming Jesus Into Your Family Life with Emily Jaminet
September 9th, 2020 | Season 6 | 45 mins 16 secs
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Emily Jaminet is a Catholic author, speaker, mother of seven, and the executive director of the Sacred Heart Enthronement Network. She talks with host Katie Prejean McGrady about how family prayer and welcoming Jesus into your home can transform your family dynamic. Jaminet also explains how the ability to pivot in the midst of life’s changes is a mother’s greatest strength. When a mother is centered in prayer, she’s able to change course with grace and patience, Jaminet says.
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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.
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A Twitter Romance & a Covid-19 Wedding with Nick & Riley Sciarappa
August 21st, 2020 | Season 6 | 54 mins 7 secs
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Newlyweds Nick and Riley Sciarappa talk with host Katie Prejean McGrady about meeting online and about their lives while dating and discerning marriage and what they’ve learned and how they’ve grown in trust throughout their engagement. The Sciarappas also share what it was like to plan a wedding in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Making Marriage Abundantly Joyful with Jackie Francois Angel & Bobby Angel
August 19th, 2020 | Season 6 | 59 mins 14 secs
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Jackie Francois Angel and Bobby Angel, authors, speakers, and parents of four, explain to host Katie Prejean McGrady that marriage must be rooted in friendship, attentiveness to the other’s needs, communication, and a dedication to prayer. The Angels say that marriage is meant to be abundantly joyful, established in a love of Christ that flows into family life.
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Regroup and Let it Go with Jeannie Gaffigan
August 14th, 2020 | Season 6 | 56 mins 25 secs
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Jeannie Gaffigan, author of the bestselling When Life Gives You Pears, wife to comedian Jim Gaffigan, and mother of five, talks candidly with host Katie Prejean McGrady about balancing family life, her Catholic faith, and maintaining a sense of sanity and fun in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic in New York City. Gaffigan shares practical tips on how Catholic family life can thrive by lowering your expectations and letting stressful things go so you can focus on your family’s health, happiness, and holiness.
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Thriving as a Family with Tommy Tighe
April 20th, 2020 | Season 2 | 18 mins 16 secs
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Catholic counselor Tommy Tighe shares ways we can help our children cope with the current crisis and how couples and families can continue to thrive with routine, prayer, and facing their feelings of uncertainty together.