Hearing Voices

by Barbara Ruth Saunders

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Barbara grew up in Westchester County, New York, lives in Berkeley, CA, and occupies

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A Look at Life: Poetry for Reflection, Vol. 1

by Belinda Terro Mooney

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Belinda Terro Mooney, ACC, LMSW, LCDC, is an author, speaker, coach, and instructor.

She is mom to seven grown children, whom she homeschooled. She strives to know God so as to make Him known as a Secular Discalced Carmelite. Belinda is the author of eight published books including Pray With Us: A Saint for Every Day. She writes about the Saints, The Three Works of Reparation, Catholic History, mental illness, addictions, mental health (including grief) and wellness including My Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes Workbook: Creating a Comprehensive Plan for a Calm, Ordered Life, 2^nd edition. She speaks on all of these topics.

Belinda is ACC certified as a coach through the ICF (International Coach Federation) and in Clifton Strengths through the HFC (Human Formation Coalition). She coaches Catholic professional moms as well as authors, coaches and therapists. She is also a Certified Virtuous Leadership Consultant, a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) and Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (LCDC).

Belinda is developing and teaching courses on Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes, Listening Deeply for Better Relationships, TIPS for Homeschooling Families, and others. As an Adjunct Professor of Human Services, she has taught Basic Counseling Skills and Addictions courses.

When not helping people, Belinda loves praying (at Mass, in Adoration, and in intercessory prayer), spending time with family and friends, singing, swimming, walking, watching movies, and reading.

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A Look at Life: Poetry for Reflection, Vol. 2

by Belinda Terro Mooney

Featured in Summer 2025 Flos Carmeli Volume XXXV No. 3, page 9.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Belinda Terro Mooney, ACC, LMSW, LCDC, is an author, speaker, coach, and instructor.

She is mom to seven grown children, whom she homeschooled. She strives to know God so as to make Him known as a Secular Discalced Carmelite. Belinda is the author of eight published books including Pray With Us: A Saint for Every Day. She writes about the Saints, The Three Works of Reparation, Catholic History, mental illness, addictions, mental health (including grief) and wellness including My Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes Workbook: Creating a Comprehensive Plan for a Calm, Ordered Life, 2^nd edition. She speaks on all of these topics.

Belinda is ACC certified as a coach through the ICF (International Coach Federation) and in Clifton Strengths through the HFC (Human Formation Coalition). She coaches Catholic professional moms as well as authors, coaches and therapists. She is also a Certified Virtuous Leadership Consultant, a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) and Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (LCDC).

Belinda is developing and teaching courses on Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes, Listening Deeply for Better Relationships, TIPS for Homeschooling Families, and others. As an Adjunct Professor of Human Services, she has taught Basic Counseling Skills and Addictions courses.

When not helping people, Belinda loves praying (at Mass, in Adoration, and in intercessory prayer), spending time with family and friends, singing, swimming, walking, watching movies, and reading.

Connect with her at:

belinda@belindaterromooney.com

https://belindaterromooney.com

https://instagram.com/belindaterromooney/

https://facebook.com/belindaterromooney/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/belindaterromooney/

https://www.pinterest.com/belindaterromooney/

A Time Will Come

by Dennis Billy, C.Ss.R.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fr. Dennis J. Billy, C.Ss.R., is Professor Emeritus of the history of moral theology and Christian spirituality at the Alphonsian Academy of the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome and currently serves as The Robert F. Leavitt Distinguished Service Chair in Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore. An American Redemptorist of the Baltimore Province, Fr. Billy has advanced degrees from Harvard University, the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum), and the Graduate Theological Foundation. The author of numerous books and articles on a variety of religious topics, he is also active in his order’s retreat apostolate and in the ministry of spiritual direction.

A Dear Friend, Volume 1: Denial

by Daniel Mahoney

This first volume of poems is the poetic expression of the first stage of grief – denial. Wrestling with the reality that a dear friend is dead, a peculiar beginning amidst the sorrow is found. This first book begins a life of poetry, the expression of grief, and the pondering of beautiful things.

Hardcover with dust jacket: $15.95 | Hardcover Case Laminate with a special journaling section: $14.95 | Kindle: $5.99

TESTIMONIALS

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross described five stages of grief as follows:

1) Denial – an unwillingness to accept a loss and a rejection of the reality that loss brings

2) Anger – frustration at a situation one perceives is out of his or her control

3) Bargaining – negotiating with God or with whatever might pass for a higher being whom one perceives has control

4) Depression – sadness or despair at one’s situation of loss

5) Acceptance – acknowledgment of the reality of the loss

In this series of books, poet Daniel Mahoney has accomplished something profound, a laying out in verse of, as Alexander Pope described of wit, ‘what oft was thought but ne’er so well expressed.’ His healing process is also ours as his poetry teaches us that all five of these stages contribute to our healing.” – Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, author of Catholic Realism

“Daniel Mahoney, in this impressive first collection of five volumes on grief, is the right poet to tackle the subject “Denial,” because he has a searingly honest voice, which is the only kind that could do justice to a phase of grief that few can authentically confront in memory, let alone art. I am asked to write endorsements of poetry collections frequently…and I must say, there is unique brilliance in this volume not often seen. It is perhaps not unrelated to this fact that Daniel has discovered and shared in his poem ‘The Greatest Paradox’ that Christ is both poem and poet. Many pearls in Daniel’s work have a music as strong as Gerard Manley Hopkins, an ache as stunning as Yeats.” – Annabelle Moseley, Award-winning Poet and Author of Sacred Braille, Our House of the Sacred Heartand Awake with Christ, Writer-in-Residence, Walt Whitman Birthplace 2009-2010

“In Daniel Mahoney’s A Dear Friend: Volume I: Denial (pp. 39) there is the beginning of an analysis of grief, particularly the loss of a father as a son is beginning to emerge into who he is, like a chrysalis turning butterfly and discovering a certain unintelligibility as the parent is no longer there. But, at the same time, there is a kind of falling out into poetry, of writing it and therefore of being a poet, as if being a poet has emerged out of the author’s grief like Eve from the side of Adam (cf. p. 10): ‘Poetry could listen to me, and I could find solace’ (p. Iv) – as if this could not have happened with the same drama if loss had not “broken” the secret on who the son discovered himself to be. While, in one sense, the poetry is clear, in another sense it is like looking at a shape falling in the water and which leaves us wondering how many are the ways we remember or experience the passing of another. And through it all there is the relationship to Christ – as if He only becomes clear as his father goes; and, in a line reminiscent of reflections on Mary’s humility, the poet says: ‘I will be among the little and the small’ (p. 29), alone, because ‘no one wants to be little, no, not anymore’ (p. 29). So, join the poet’s pursuit but be willing to be pursued by your vocation!” – Francis Etheredge, author of The Prayerful Kiss and Honest Rust and Gold

“Under an anagram of his name, Mahoney’s Denialshows you how prosody can erase the wrinkles of grief; the rhyme and rhythm of dactyls and trochees transforming emotions into the music of the garden; of leaf and flower. Of Love. And peace. Shadowing Milton’s beatification of grief in that poetic masterpiece, Lycidas. “Hence with denial vain and coy excuse! So may some gentle muse with lucky words favour my destin’d urn. And as he passes, turn. And bid fair peace to my sable shroud.” But Mahoney looks beyond that transformation of grief to “Something different, something more. What lies behind another door.” He sees in his new discovered prosody a paradox, the “Word made flesh. Loving men who brought him death… Christ the paradox…The poem and the poet.” He thus guides grief to even more sacred shores, beyond Milton’s “Pilot of the Galilean lake.” And for you and for me, the reader on the last page, the last feeling set to meter, we wonder if we too can envision that peace of mind and soul if we can break down the prose of pain, wrath, resentment and the many pages of our earthly purgatory into that heaven called poetry.” – Ivan Arthur, author of Pavement Prayers

“Daniel Mahoney’s poetry captures in a memory the hollow feelings we may not have acknowledged as grief; the refusing to believe that the lost isn’t just in another room, or across the state, on vacation; putting into words, too, the hollow fears of other griefs we don’t recognize: fear, knowledge, failure, spiritual battle, dreams, and the longing for heaven, all becoming something of a vessel in which to place our pain, like the jars of water at Cana – they will be turned from pain into beauty, just as the author has turned his pain into poetry.” – Grace Bourget, author of Light of Faith: Poems and Plays

“To the poet, such as Daniel Mahoney, is given the special task of sharing truths that otherwise would be relegated to the darkness of the night. Mahoney writes of the original striving for the wholeness of the primordial garden, with a light-touch and an insightful mind. He stands with eyes wide open to the eternal risk of living and the grace to be found in embracing that reality. His poems are ardent, honest, and sure to find understanding with anyone who has ever loved deeply and suffered well. By intuiting the inherent beauty of paradox with agility of spirit, Mahoney practices poetic reflection in an exemplary manner.” – Rachel Heise, author of Flow Gently Days

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Daniel Mahoney is a husband, father, and a poet. He writes about beauty in the simplicities of life and gives voice to the experience of grief. Daniel seeks to increase the awareness of grief and calls people to encounter our Lord amidst their sorrows. He is a practicing Catholic in the Diocese of Madison where he lives with his wife and two boys.

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Cloud of Witnesses

by Joni J. Seith

Segment cut from The Rosary – Living Divine Mercy TV Show (EWTN) Ep.102 with Fr. Donald Calloway (posted on August 24, 2024), the full broadcast of which is available here.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Joni J. Seith is a Jewish convert to Catholicism and is married to Deacon Bob Seith. They are the proud parents of four grown children and four amazing grandchildren. Joni holds a BS degree in Secondary Education in Art from UMD and an MS degree in Psychology from Divine Mercy University. When Joni isn’t writing or creating in her art studio, she can be found playing with her grandkids, praying, and guiding her Spiritual Directees. Joni’s extraordinary story of joy, suffering and love for the Lord, His mother, and the saints can also be found in her book Pain of Grace. Joni can be reached through her blog at painofgrace.com.

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