January 7-8, 2011
Bishop Lane Retreat Center, Rockford, IL
$75 for Shared Room, $55 for Commuters.

Arrival is 6:00-6:30pm with dinner staring at 6:30pm. Retreat includes time for confession and adoration. We will conclude with a vigil Mass on Saturday.  For more details and to register, check out the Office of Family Life website at www.familylife.dpsrfd.org or call (815) 399-4300.

The second podcast to feature the book last week was my very own family of mom bloggers at the Faith & Family Live Cast.  You can almost hear me blushing out loud at the very kind remarks offered by my friends and writing colleagues Danielle Bean and Arwen Mosier.  Honestly, hearing the two of them talk so sweetly about our book made my heart sing.  Since both of these two fine writers are also contributors to the book, it was especially joyful to share this conversation with them!
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Just send us your  favorite, best working, or funniest piece of motherly advice you’ve heard from your Mom, Grandmother, etc.  We’ll compile all the entries and pick our Top Five Favorites to win a signed copy of Lisa’s new book!  We’ll post all entries online and share the Top Five on YouTube, Facebook, CatholicSpotlight.com and more.

Email your entry to contest@catholiccompany.com; please include your full name, email address, and mailing address. No purchase is necessary. Submissions will be accepted now through February 14, 2010. Only one entry per person.  Participants must be 18 years of age or older as of the time of submission.  This contest is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and Washington, DC except for employees of The Catholic Company and Trinity Road, LLC, and all companies contributing prizes, judges, and members of their immediate families.

To build a little excitement, I filmed the following video today.  Please help spread the word by sharing this on your website, blog or podcast – and don’t forget to send your entry to contest@catholiccompany.com by 2/14/10.

My book is now available at The Catholic Company, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Aquinas and More, or a Catholic bookstore near you!

Update: For those who would like to view/listen to my recent conversation with Francesca Maximé of Currents, take a look at the following YouTube video – my segment begins at around 10:30 into the program.  Thanks again to Francesca Maximé and the entire Currents team for the opportunity to appear on your wonderful program!

I teased Father Rafael that he should go into the car sales business – when he first invited me to speak, I must admit that I doubted how many people would show up to church on Saturday night to watch a black and white film about Our Lady of Fatima.

Well, Fr. Rafael and the families of St. Joachim’s proved me wrong!  Over three hundred tickets were sold and the parish hall was packed  to capacity to watch this amazing movie.  After the film, we were treated to a very informative question and answer session by another of the Oblate priests from the parish.

If you haven’t already heard Catholic Moments Podcast #129, be sure to check out a press conference that provides a tremendous overview of the making of The 13th Day.

I love visiting parishes and must say that my trip to St. Joachim’s gave me an even greater desire to do more of this in the year ahead.  I want to congratulate Fr. Rafael and his TOBers on an outstanding event.  You managed to raise funds while providing a fun, inspirational, and educational evening for your entire parish family.  I hope I’m invited to your next Movie Night!

To contact me about speaking at your parish or organization, email LisaHendey@gmail.com.

Launched in late 1999, CatholicMom.com welcomes visitors every month from around the world.  The site features columns by over thirty contributing columnists who volunteer their expertise on everything from Catholic Breastfeeding and Natural Family Planning to parenting humor.  Additionally, CatholicMom.com is home to a Catholic Book Club featuring monthly fiction, non-fiction and children’s selections by Catholic authors.  The site’s Catholic Music Spotlights highlight the work of Catholic recording artists in an interview format designed to help promote Catholic music and aid parents in helping their children make uplifting listening decisions.

Each week, CatholicMom.com offers a variety of children’s activities designed to help children learn from the Sunday Liturgy of the Word.  These activities, based upon the Sunday Gospel, include age appropriate coloring pages, crossword and word search puzzles, and interactive Mass worksheets designed to help the child truly embrace the Mass.  Weekly lesson plan aids are offered for Religious Education teachers, homeschoolers and families looking to teach the faith based upon the Church’s liturgical calendar.  Visitors from around the globe have come to rely upon these free and liturgically relevant catechetical materials.

Lisa and her husband Greg, an Emergency Physician, reside in Fresno, California with their two sons, Eric and Adam.  Lisa and Greg met and married at the University of Notre Dame and share a passion for Irish football.  Following her undergraduate work at Notre Dame, Lisa earned a Master’s Degree in Human Resource Development from Vanderbilt University.  She worked for several years in the field of Human Resources for non-profit entities including Kaiser Permanente and Vanderbilt University, specializing in recruitment and corporate training prior to “retiring” to care for her children in the home.

Today, Lisa heads a home based web design business, designing and maintaining sites for several clients.  In addition to her work with CatholicMom.com, she is also employed by St. Anthony of Padua parish as webmaster for the parish and school web sites.  She has done pro bono web design for Samaritan Women, a prison ministry agency and is involved in numerous community service initiatives. The Hendey family members are active parishioners at St. Anthony of Padua Parish, where Lisa serves an Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist.

As a freelance writer, Lisa is a regular contributor to Catholic Exchange, Catholic Online, and Catholic.net and countless other Internet publishers. Additionally, Lisa writes a weekly “Tech for You” column at the Catholic Women’s Channel. Her articles have appeared in the National Catholic Register, Our Sunday Visitor, Canticle Magazine, Grapevine Magazine and Kids’ Ark Magazine.  She is currently at work on her first non-fiction book, addressing faith and parenting topics.

Lisa’s most recent projects include Productivity @ Home, a blog site that examines the topic of personal productivity in the home and family environment, and the Catholic Moments Podcast, a weekly interview format program that was selected to be an affiliate of the highly acclaimed Star Quest Production Network (SQPN), the home of the “Best in Catholic Podcasting”. In addition, Lisa is currently filming “CatholicMom.com – Your Gateway to Faith and Family Resources on the Web”, a television program produced by KNXT-TV and the Diocese of Fresno.  The show features short video segments to be aired multiple times each week that will explore faith and family resources on the Internet.  Lisa can also be found blogging each week as part of the team of writers at Faith and Family Live, the new and very popular web site of Circle Media’s Faith and Family magazine.

Lisa M. Hendey is available to speak to your group on Catholic faith, family, new media, personal productivity and healthy living topics.  Lisa is domiciled in the Diocese of Fresno and has received authorization and permission from Bishop John T. Steinbock to speak both within and outside of the Diocese of Fresno.

Contact Information:

Lisa M. Hendey
2037 W. Bullard Ave. #247
Fresno, CA 93711

email: LisaHendey@gmail.com