My Badass Book of Saints, Maria Morera Johnson
My Badass Book of Saints, Maria Morera Johnson
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My Badass Book of Saints
Courageous Women Who Showed Me How to Live

Author: Maria Morera Johnson

Narrator: Maria Morera Johnson

Unabridged: 4 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Mission Audio

Published: 10/19/2018

Synopsis

Winner of a 2016 Association of Catholic Publishers Excellence in Publishing Award: Inspirational Books (First Place). In this edgy, honest, and often audacious book of Catholic spirituality, blogger and popular podcaster Maria Morera Johnson explores the qualities of twenty-four holy women who lived lives of virtue in unexpected and often difficult circumstances. In My Badass Book of Saints, Johnson shares her experience as a first-generation Cuban-American, educator of at-risk college students, and caregiver for a husband with Lou Gehrig's disease. Through humorous, empowering, and touching portraits of twenty-four spiritual mentors who inspired her, Johnson shows how their bravery, integrity, selflessness, perseverance, and hope helped her and can help others have courage to reach for a closer connection to God. She presents remarkable holy women and saints--including the gun-toting Servant of God Sr. Blandina Segale who tried to turn the heart of Billy the Kid, and Nazi resister Irena Sendler who helped smuggle children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II--in a way that brings their vivid personalities to life and helps readers live out the challenges of their lives with virtue and conviction.

About Maria Morera Johnson

Maria Morera Johnson is the author of the award-winning books Super Girls and Halos and My Badass Book of Saints. She also contributed to The Catholic Mom's Prayer Companion, Word by Word: Slowing Down with the Hail Mary, and Gaze Upon Jesus. A catholicmom.com blogger and educator, Johnson retired in 2016 from her positions as a composition and literature professor and the director of English learning support at Georgia Piedmont Technical College.

Johnson has spoken at a number of events, retreats, and conferences, including the National Council of Catholic Women, Austin Women's Conference, and the Catholic Press Association. She also has been featured on CatholicTV and Busted Halo and in Catholic Digest and St. Anthony Messenger.

Johnson is a native of Cuba. She and her husband, John, have three grown children and live in the Mobile, Alabama, area.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lindsey on March 26, 2016

I really enjoyed this book and liked the format with the author beginning with a story of her own life leading into snipets about the saints. My only complaint would be that I wish it was longer and more in depth! I will be researching more about the amazing women mentioned in this book.......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on August 07, 2016

Johnson offers a really beautiful way to parallel saints to modern day holy activists; I only wish she offered more content about the saints. The small chapters are thoughtfully organized by theme, even offering contemplative questions at the end. For any Catholic who remembers The Picture Book of S......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen on May 04, 2023

Part memoir, part brief look at mostly obscure saints, this was an enjoyable short book. This one is a good reminder that being holy and faithful looks different for all of us.......more

Goodreads review by Carol on January 15, 2016

A book I love so much, I buy copies for my friends - this is rare, and truly a tribute to the author (and the subject). Not just canonized saints we might glimpse on holy cards or church pamplets (i.e. dry, dull), these are "real-life women who faced down outlaws in the Old West, genoice in Rwanda,......more

Goodreads review by Patricia on January 10, 2016

The Saints are true models of how how to live faith filled lives. My Badass book of Saints brings their stories out of the clouds and shines a light on their true life stories. I have always liked reading about the saints but I loved the format of this book. First there is a personal story from the......more

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