Small Steps for Catholic Moms: Your Daily Call to Think, Pray, and Act

Danielle Bean, editor of Catholic Digest, and Elizabeth Foss, an award-winning blogger, team up to offer daily doses of inspiration, wisdom, and hope for Catholic moms. Now back in print in response to high demand, Small Steps for Catholic Moms gives busy mothers a year's worth of sustenance: brief daily challenges about which to think, pray, and act.

Small Steps for Catholic Moms offers daily prompts and suggestions―small steps―for every day of the year to encourage Catholic moms to attain that elusive balance between action and contemplation in everyday life. Each day’s entry includes a short prayer from a saint, a personal prayer composed from the hearts of two mothers, and a small call to action, making this the perfect prayer companion for the busy mom looking for bite-sized spiritual nourishment.

Danielle Bean is vice president of digital content at Trinity Road. She is the host of the Girlfriends podcast and cohost of The Gist on CatholicTV.

Bean is the author of several books, including Giving Thanks and Letting Go, Small Steps for Catholic Moms, Momnipotent, and You Are Enough. She is a retreat leader and a popular speaker on a variety of subjects related to Catholic family life, education, marriage, and motherhood.

She lives in New Hampshire with her family.

Elizabeth Foss is a cancer survivor who lives every day grateful for the gift of life. Married to Mike Foss and mama to nine children, she finds the charm, wonder, and cacophony of big family imperfection to be great inspiration as she strives to meet life with creativity and grace. A graduate of University of Virginia, Foss has written an award-winning family life column for the Arlington Catholic Herald since 1993. Her writing appears frequently in Catholic Digest and has been published by Catholic Exchange, EWTN, and the Washington Post. She is the author of Real Learning and Small Steps for Catholic Moms and lives in Virginia.

Lisa M. Hendey is the founder of the award-winning CatholicMom.com. She is the bestselling author of multiple books for adults and children, including The Handbook for Catholic Moms, A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms, The Grace of Yes, I’m a Saint in the Making, and the Chime Travelers fiction series.

Hendey has appeared on EWTN, CatholicTV, and as a part of the Momnipotent DVD series. Her work has appeared in Catholic Digest, National Catholic Register, and Our Sunday Visitor.

Hendey travels internationally, giving workshops for adults and children. She has spoken at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress, the Catholic Marketing Network, the University of Dallas Ministry Conference, the National Catholic Youth Conference, the Midwest Catholic Family Conference, and the National Council of Catholic Women. Selected as an Egan Journalism Fellow with Catholic Relief Services, Hendey has traveled, written, and spoken on behalf of CRS, Unbound, and other non-profit organizations to support their humanitarian missions in Rwanda, the Philippines, India, Tanzania, Kenya, and Columbia.

She lives with her husband, Greg, in Los Angeles, California.