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Dear Friend, 

St. Gianna Molla is a saint that I deeply admire. I often ask her to be with me when I am discerning something. After spending time with her family over the years, I know that she is an especially inspirational saint for us to imitate today.

His Eminence, Cardinal Burke also knows the Molla Family very well and has studied the life of St. Gianna. With much admiration for the Saint, he composed the beautiful prayer that is included in the 9-day novena. It is an expression of everything St. Gianna was in real life.

Please register, save the date and prepare to join me ‘beginning this coming Tuesday, April 20’ in the beautiful and enriching daily meditations and novena prayer.

As a lay person, St. Gianna exemplified holiness at every level inside her triple vocation as wife, mother and doctor. In each of those seemingly ordinary roles, she exercised virtue to a heroic degree. Because of this, St. Gianna is often called the “saint of the ordinary.”

Even her husband Pietro Molla affectionately said of her when he discovered his wife’s cause for canonization was opened, “Look, I know I married a fantastic woman. But she was so normal!” But normal for us Catholics today, is not the “normal” of the average person. As Catholics, you and I are faced with our own spiritual and moral battles with temptations and the practice of virtue. We have the obligation to always echo the true doctrines of
the Catholic Church in our daily example amid the onslaught of relativism with which we and our families are bombarded.

As husbands and wives, fathers and mothers – leaders in the home – in the ordinary course of our lives we must contend with spiritual threats on our path to holiness. St. Gianna is a perfect model to help us from Heaven to overcome these struggles. She is the “extra-ordinary” response we need to fend off the influences of our modern and godless culture.

In the ordinary business of our lives, let’s invoke St. Gianna who showed us how to be in the world, but not of the world. As Our Lord rose from the dead to life, let us resurrect in our hearts new enthusiasm to bolster our daily resolve to practice to a heroic degree the Beatitudes just as St. Gianna did.

For this reason, I want to invite you to pray with me a Novena to St. Gianna to begin on April 20th and will end on April 28th, her Feast Day. Since she is also a patroness for Catholic Action for Faith and Family, we will be delving deep into the story of her life along the path of this Novena, making the connections between this modern saint and her heroic practice of the Beatitudes.

Sign-Up to Pray the Novena to St. Gianna Beretta Molla April 20-28, you will receive a new email everyday with a link to the Novena.

Your friend in Jesus and Mary,

Thomas J. McKenna 
Founder and President
Catholic Action         

Catholic Action For Faith And Family
http://www.catholicaction.org/