Ebook: Everyday sacrament: the messy grace of parenting

Beginnings: baptism and confirmation -- Celebrating grace: confirmation -- Rhythms: eucharist, reconciliation, and anointing the sick -- From frustration to forgiveness: reconciliation -- Helping to heal: anointing of the sick -- Everyday vows: marriage -- Challenges of the calling: Holy orders.;In Everyday Sacrament: The Messy Grace of Parenting, Laura Kelly Fanucci sees the Catholic sacraments through the smudged and sticky lens of life with little ones. From dinnertime chaos to bath-time giggles to never-ending loads of laundry, Laura stumbles into the surprising truth of what the seven sacraments really mean: that God is present always, even in the messes of motherhood. A spiritual memoir of parenting's early years and a sacramental theology rooted in family life, Everyday Sacrament offers an honest, humorous, and hopeful look at ordinary moments as full of grace.