Wednesday Morning Book Group: Article to Consider

Wednesday Morning Book Group: Article to Consider: “If you are on Facebook and are not a friend of Fr. Martin’s, I encourage you to become one. Aside from additional insight to this book…”

Wife, mother, blogger, Catholic ministry. I love to garden even when it goes wrong. Same with writing (and we know it can go wrong.) Believing that God is present in all of it.

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