Learning Contentment

In a restless world seemingly spinning more rapidly and precariously each day, holding fast to what is good, true, and beautiful becomes an ever-more-urgent priority. In this deeply reflective yet practical book, Marcus Grodi, founder of The Coming Home Network International, offers spiritual wisdom and down-to-earth guidance for anchoring your soul in God’s peace and purpose.

With his trademark warmth and humility, Grodi draws on Scripture, saints, and everyday life stories to show how true joy begins not with escaping from the world but with seeking and embracing God’s presence within it.

Preeminently, Grodi will help you learn how to slow down, find joy where you are, and bloom where you’ve been planted.

You’ll discover the real “stairway to Heaven” — an ascent not of ambition but rather of surrender, gratitude, and love. You’ll learn the three-letter secret to authentic happiness, as well as Marcus’s invaluable guide to using technology prudently. You’ll also learn:

• Eight ways to nurture joy and contentment in marriage and family life
• Five keys to simplifying your life and growing in virtue and interior peace
• How the Beatitudes restore broken relationships and guide us toward holiness
• Lessons from the saints on finding hope in desolation and balance in abundance
• How to live subsidiarity by caring for others without losing yourself

• Seven concrete steps for the good life — from loving God to leaving a legacy of faith

   

When your world is feeling dark and chaotic, let Marcus Grodi show you how the created world around you proclaims God’s loving care.

Marcus is the Founder and President Emeritus of The Coming Home Network International, a nonprofit Catholic lay apostolate aimed at helping other Christians, both clergy and laity, explore the Catholic Church. He hosted The Journey Home, a weekly television program on EWTN, for twenty-five years before passing on the hosting to his son, JonMarc. Marcus is the author of Thoughts for the Journey Home, What Must I Do to Be Saved?, Life from Our Land, the novels How Firm a Foundation and Pillar and Bulwark, and the editor and author of Journeys Home and Journeys Home II. Marcus has taught courses in catechetics, youth ministry, leadership, and theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville and the Pontifical College Josephinum. He has written regular articles for Catholic Answers Magazine, as well as other Catholic publications.