Authentic Catholic womanhood. Many women mistakenly equate this quality with biological motherhood. And yet, God has entrusted every woman -- single or married, with our without children -- with an important task: to bring spiritual life to the world around her, following the example of the Blessed Mother. In Full of Grace, you will discover five essential elements that will help you to deepen your relationship with God. By cultivating this essential relationship, you will be empowered to more fully embrace your God-given calling.
Johnette goes through the Bible and the teachings of the Catholic Church as they relate to women. This book is a good read for anyone who is interested in what the importance of woman in Christianity is and how we woman are to obtain the important role we have to play.
The reason why we have chosen this book for our CCM meetings is because the author Johnnette Benkovic does a wonderful job at showing women how to become the woman that God has created us to be; "Full of Grace." My prayer is that this book will become the first stepping in helps us to becoming the daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, or aunte that God is calling us to be. As we begin to read this book let us pray to our Sorrowful Mother and ask her to help guide our hearts ever closer to her son.
This is the second time reading Full of Grace: Women and the Abundant Life by Jonnette Benkovic. The first time I read this book was with my women's church group. It is a great book that encourages women to experience God's love and mercy. Each time I read it, I learn something new and different. A great read and I recommend this book to all women.
One of the best books I have read on being a Catholic woman, and living my faith, daily. Has practical suggestions and many inspirational insights. Excellent!
Benkovic shows the way for women to find the Abundant Life and how they may be instrumental in helping others find the way. She ends with the teachings of St. Theresa of Lisieux and Edith Stein, St.Theresa Benedicta of the Cross, two Carmelite saints.
There is a DVD series and workbook that goes along with the book. I highly recommend this book! I did this workshop as part of the woman's group with my parish. To be truthful, when I actually started reading the book, I had to end up making myself do one chapter a month in order to follow along with the group but I ended up by not being able to always attend group so I ended up finishing on my own and wasn't able to completely follow the DVD series.