This week we celebrated the feast day of Sts. Joachim and Ann, beloved parents of Our Blessed Mother. Many of us travel during the summer to visit our parents or grandparents or to visit our children and grandchildren. What blessing and wisdom there is to be shared by our treasured grandparents. A CNA article reports ... Read More

Please tune in to see ENDOW’s amazing opportunity to share the ENDOW mission with more and more women! Terry Polakovic and Brigid Sweeney will be interviewed by EWTN’s Fr. Mitch Pacwa on Wednesday (7/28/10) 8pm EDT. How about encouraging your friends who might like to learn a bit more about ENDOW and it’s mission to ... Read More

As we pray, we draw into closer and closer friendship with God. Today I saw this beautiful butterfly doing exactly what he was created to do. Trough prayer, we can ask for the grace to do what our Father has planned for our lives…“Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love ... Read More

Suffering is sometimes so hard to understand. Today we read about a Catholic priest who is thought by many to have been a living saint. The obituary in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for Fr. Patrick Rager of Pittsburgh, PA tells how Fr. Paddy “was an example of heroic virtue” to all who knew him. “He gave ... Read More

Hello everyone! There is a bit of change in the air here on The Front Porch. As many of you know, ENDOW’s Executive Director, Terry Polakovic, has been caring for this blog since it’s beginning along with a few other faithful contributors. Thanks to their efforts, The Front Porch has become an informative, wonderful and ... Read More

Ginny Moyer, author of the award-winning book, Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God, has written a fun, practical, and poignant column on mommyhood and faith. Ginny has offered to share her insights with we women of ENDOW. Here’s to enjoying these precious and playful days of summer! We hope you ... Read More

July 10 was the feast of one of the Church’s beatified married couples, Blesseds Louis Martin and Marie-Zélie Guerin Martin, the parents of St. Thérèse. We at ENDOW encourage all parents to pray to these two holy Blesseds who raised their child, St. Therese, to become a great Saint and Doctor of the Church with ... Read More

When we meet new people it is sometimes a bit scary as the expectations of ourselves and of others get so high. Is this person too good to be true? Am I not good enough? Coming to know ourselves as beloved (like St. John, The Beloved Disciple) in the eyes of God helps us live ... Read More

Kevin Clarke, a theology teacher at St Joseph Academy in San Marcos, California has studied Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical “Caritas in Veritate” with his 12th grade morality class, exposing the students to the Pope’s teaching on authentic human development. A Zenit article reports: “In this interview with ZENIT, Clarke explains how the students exceeded his ... Read More

The Holy Father has some good fashion advice for all of us ENDOW women: Holiness never goes out of style. Catholic News Agency explains: “The Holy Father dedicated his Sunday homily to reflections on the life of St. Celestine as he visited the Italian city where the relics of the 13th century saint and Pope ... Read More