{"id":6387,"date":"2018-12-05T18:18:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T18:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/?p=6387"},"modified":"2018-12-05T18:20:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T18:20:23","slug":"happy-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/05\/happy-advent\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Advent!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been awhile. I know. I have been so busy with my book writing and writing work, major traveling for speaking, and I have been sick too. Plus, of course, we just celebrated Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

It really is true. There are only so many hours in a day! \ud83d\ude42 Where do I begin to catch up with you? You might be following me on social media too, so you know I haven’t fallen off the edge of the Earth!<\/p>\n

Here I am with my precious helpers in the kitchen for Thanksgiving. My grandson in the first photo exclaimed, “I am wearing an apron–just like GRANDMA!” There’s nothing like the love of a grandchild. They are blessings to be sure!<\/p>\n

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We also celebrated four birthdays at Thanksgiving time. Three of my children’s birthdays as well as mine! Lots of festivity! After that, I got sick! I was run down and illness finally got to me. I’m getting better as we speak!<\/p>\n

I’ll give you a few updates. My Advent with Our Lady of Fatima<\/strong><\/em> book has released. I have copies available here.\u00a0<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“Lived well, the season of Advent can help us meditate upon our eternal life as well as the need to help others get to heaven.<\/strong> Our Lady emphasizes that heaven is real and that we need to live holy lives to get there one day, but it\u2019s important to recognize that hell is very real, too, and is a sure consequence for unrepented sin…” [From my book]<\/p>\n

Catholic Exchange<\/strong> recently posted an excerpt from my book. You can see that here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a <\/span>link to listen <\/a>to a radio conversation I had with Jon Leonetti chatting\u00a0about my Advent book. Just <\/span>click on the link <\/a>and then click on the Novemeber 21st date. You can scroll to the 18:53 time marker and listen there. It goes to about the 30:10 mark. Or, just listen to his whole\u00a0show if you’d like.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As well, I made a couple of very short videos for yesterday’s and today’s reflections. You can see them on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter. I tried to upload them here but the files are too large. I’ll try to do these types of teaching videos as open as I can. I pray that they stir your heart during this marvelous season of Advent and beyond!<\/p>\n

In case you’d like additional information on my book:<\/p>\n

From the Inside Flap:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spend this Advent with Our Lady of Fatima
\nand with six saintly souls who were particularly devoted to her:
\nSt. Teresa of Calcutta, St. John Paul II, Fr. Andrew Apostoli, and the Three Shepherd Children to whom Mary appeared in 1917!<\/p>\n

In these spiritually-rich pages, award-winning Catholic author Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle brings you powerful prayers and readings guaranteed to shield you from the annual holiday sales frenzy that, during the holy season of Advent, distracts even sincere believers from preparation for the coming of the Christ Child.<\/p>\n

These wise pages are sure to draw you closer to Our Lady of Fatima and her gracious messages of peace and hope. For these Advent prayers and readings are all rooted in Mary’s 1917 messages to Jacinta, Francisco, and Lucia (the three young Fatima visionaries); and in the personal Fatima devotions of three of our holy contemporaries, St. Teresa of Calcutta, St. John Paul II, and the late Fr. Andrew Apostoli.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on Advent through their lives and words, you will also learn:<\/p>\n