Living Memento Mori (with Emily Deardo)

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week’s Girlfriends guest is Emily Deardo, author of the newly-released Living Memento Mori: My Journey Through the Stations of the Cross. Emily shares about her diagnosis with serious illness at the age of 11 and the ways in which her struggles and health challenges have shaped her faith life. Her book is an inspiring read any time, but an especially great pick for Lent this year. The Tradition of Memento Mori Watch this video from Father Mike Schmitz to learn more about the tradition of memento mori, whereby Christians would meditate on the reality of human mortality. This practice would bring much needed perspective on the relationship between the eternal and the passing things of this world. Listener Feedback This week, I also share feedback on NFP from listener Liz who writes, in part:

“I’ve only been practicing this past year so I’m by no means a pro, but we started practicing the Couple to Couple League method then we ended up learning the Marquette method as well. For the Marquette method we use a fertility monitor, specifically the Clearblue monitor that says if your estrogen and LH are “low,” “high” or at its “peak” for your cycle. For both methods I’ve used two different apps. I’ve used the “p tracker” app to track period symptoms, but it also had the ability to track temperature and mucus and cervix symptoms. When we started CCL we started using the “CycleProGo” app, which I’ve still been using after we switched to Marquette.” At the end of last week’s show, I read the first chapter of my newest book. Giving Thanks and Letting Go: Reflections on the Gift of Motherhood is a book in which I share from my heart about the very real changes, challenges, triumphs, and joys of being a mom in an “emptying nest.” You can read that sample chapter at Ave Maria Press. More from Emily Deardo

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0:00.0	Girlfriends episode number 211, Living Memento Mori with Emily Diardo.
0:11.9	Hello and welcome to girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a
0:17.7	mission to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance,
0:22.2	and joy in family living.
0:24.1	This week, I'm sharing a conversation I recently had with an author Emily Diardo who writes
0:29.2	about living Memento Mori.
0:31.2	What does that mean?
0:32.4	Let's find out.
0:44.8	Hey, girlfriends, how are you? Thanks for being here. Thanks for showing up. You know that means a lot to me. I'm so glad that you are joining me here. If you are a first time listener
0:48.9	of the Girlfriends Podcast, I want to give you a warm welcome. Thank you for being here. Thank you for
0:53.9	checking it out.
0:55.0	I'm hopeful that girlfriends will become a helpful, encouraging part of your every week.
1:00.6	If you are a longtime listener, welcome back. You know I appreciate you. Thanks so much for showing up.
1:06.7	This week, I am recording. If you hear noise in the background, this is why I'm recording from my
1:14.2	room. I've locked myself away in here because the kids had a half day at school because of snow.
1:19.6	Okay, fine. But they're big kids, right? So it should be quiet in the house? No, no such thing.
1:27.0	Usually we have our two youngest,
1:29.0	Rafi and Daniel, who are home during the day and they're homeschooled, and my mornings and
1:34.8	afternoons are usually pretty quiet inside of school hours. But that is not the case here.
1:40.5	You would think high schoolers coming home during the day? I don't know. They've got this
1:45.7	energy and I think it's maybe because of the snowstorm. There's been so much yelling and running
1:50.2	around and none of it, I really want to discipline or make them stop because it's actually
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