I’m humbled to share I’m working with Franciscan Media on the follow-up to Sisterhood of Saints: Daily Guidance and Inspiration. The tentative title is Rejoice and Be Glad: Living the Beatitudes with the Women Saints. Each chapter will include a brief discussion of a Beatitude and how it challenges us today., then share how four female saints lived that challenge. For example, the chapter on meekness will feature the stories of Therese of Lisieux, Bernadette Soubirous, Gianna Beretta Molla, and Paulina of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus. The book will likely be available sometime in 2015.
To prepare myself for the writing beginning this month, I’ll be reading The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena. I know 
her basic story–14th century mystic and adviser to the pope and others–but I need to spend more time with her to learn where she belongs in this new book. After all, how can you not love the woman who wrote: “Start being brave about everything, driving out darkness and spreading light as well”? What’s on your nightstand?
