Girlfriends, episode number 249, building your domestic church with Nancy Banzuch.

Hey, girlfriends, welcome. How are you? I hope you are enjoying a good Thanksgiving week. I was going to

record a podcast about gratitude, but then when I went through and was looking

at my notes from previous shows, I've covered gratitude a lot. And that's not because, so I'm not

going to skip it because it's not important for sure. One of the things I most want to say

inside of this show is that this year at Thanksgiving, I am grateful for you. Thank you for showing up here.

Thank you for all the ways you encourage and support what I do here at Girlfriends. You're the reason I do

this. You're the reason I'm here. And I am grateful for your presence here. But this week,

I'm going to be sharing a conversation that I recently had with Nancy Banzuch, who is working on a domestic church project

that you're going to want to know more about. But speaking of domestic church, before I share

my conversation with Nancy, I want to make sure that you are aware of the amazing resources that

are available for kids from Ascension Press. So I'm always telling you to go over to

ascensionpress.com for the girlfriend's show notes. Well, now they've got some great kids projects

that you're going to want to be checking out. The first one is an interactive mass book,

which is like a board book. And this is exactly the thing that you need. It's if you've got a

kid who's antsy at church, I hear from moms all the time who are like, should I have a mass

kit? What should I give them to do? Are toys a bad idea in the pew during Mass and all of this?

But this is a great book because it's an interactive book and it's a board book.

So it's really meant for even very small kids to be able to turn the wheels and lift the flaps.

And meanwhile, learn about what the mass is and what the church is.

It's written by a Catholic mom, so fully getting it, right?

It's also available in Spanish.

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