COVER REVEAL: I have very exciting news to share!

November 12, 2024 - Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle

I was asked by my publisher Marian Press (based in Stockbridge, Mass) to write a book for the Great Jubilee Year of Hope in our Church which occurs in 2025. My newest book is titled: “Our Life, Our Sweetness, and Our Hope: Jubilee Pilgrims of Hope with Mary” and is due to be released very soon!

It is a true labor of love! Thanks to my very kind publisher, working hard and putting my book on a very fast track, it will be released in time for the Great Jubilee of Hope, but also in time for your Christmas gift-giving!

I’ll share a few secrets below. . . .

A few secrets!

Just very quickly for now, I’ll let you in on a few secrets:

I have used a word in this book that I have never ever used before in any of my previously published books! And I have over 35 books out thus far! To be honest, I was a bit surprised that it wasn’t edited out! 🙂
In my new book, I have revealed many very personal stories (some I didn’t plan to share)
I have also shared many compelling true stories, which might keep you on the edge of your seat.
But, very simply put, my new book is ALL about HOPE and how Mama Mary helps us!

Cardinal Dolan of New York has said about this book:

One of the devil’s most cunning tricks is trying to lead us to

despair, to believing that we are beyond God’s redemptive grace.

Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle’s fine book, Our Life, Our Sweetness,

and Our Hope! is a welcome reminder that our Blessed Mother

is always there for us, and a constant source of hope, encourage-

ment, and companionship towards a closer relationship with her

Son, Jesus.

— His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan,

Archbishop of New York

You’ll see a description below this image of the full book cover . . .

Here is a bit of a description taken from my Preface:

Hope is truly a lifesaver! Whether we have struggled through a world-wide pandemic, are dealing with seemingly hopeless diagnoses, losses, family troubles, or whatever else that might have caused us to become tempted to give up on hope, we should realize that God is certainly the foundation of our every hope. He will forever be. We need to continue to hope in His loving promises. He will never leave us! And He gifted us with the most eminent gift ever — His own Mother!

This book presents many reasons for hope in our world today through the lens of Our Mother Mary and some of her apparitions around the world. Join Our Blessed Mother, “Our Life, Our Sweetness, and Our Hope” on an inspiring journey to coincide with the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope.

Let’s learn from and become inspired by the great pilgrims of hope who have gone before us (and those still with us): Jesus, Mary, St. Joseph, and the saints! Let us pray to encounter our Lord Jesus Christ in a more profound way, becoming pilgrims of hope in our weary world!

Pope Francis encourages us in this time of jubilee: “Let us lift up our hearts to Christ, and become singers of hope in a world marked by too much despair. By our actions, our words, the decisions we make each day, our patient efforts to sow seeds of beauty and kindness wherever we find ourselves, we want to sing of hope, so that its melody can touch the heartstrings of humanity and reawaken in every heart the joy and the courage to embrace life to the full.”

Yes, we can do this — during the Jubilee Year and beyond! Mother Mary will help us! Our world thirsts for hope. Let us carry the torch!

Ways to pre-order

My new book is scheduled to be ready in early December!

1. Please feel free to visit and support “Shop Mercy” website to see more about my book and other books. Marian Press is taking pre-orders. Click here to see more. See here for more of my books there on Shop Mercy. While you are at Shop Mercy you might see other items you’d like to purchase for Christmas gifts. 🙂

2. To purchase your autographed copy from my website, please use the payment button below to see more and to order. Or, you may visit the “Book” page here and find the book at the top of the page.

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Visiting with Doug Keck on EWTN’s “Bookmark Brief”

October 30, 2023 - Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle

Watch the Bookmark Brief below. The entire Bookmark program interview will air on EWTN television in the near future.

You can order your autographed copy of “Diary of a Future Saint: Faustina’s Incredible Journey” below

You can learn more and purchase here.

Saint Faustina’s Feast Day, 2023

October 10, 2023 - Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle

A Grace-filled day!

I was blessed, very happy, and honored to present on the life and spirituality of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts a few days ago on dear St. Fasutina’s feast day. It was wonderful to see all of the folks who came out to partake in the amazing graces of the day — many coming to my presentation, and asking many great questions during our Q&A following my talk. I thoroughly enjoyed having to have a chance to chat with them afterward at my book signing held at the Gift Shop.

Click on the video image below (from Instagram) if you would like to watch my presentation at the Saint Faustina Center at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Mass.

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Advent Reflections

December 18, 2018 - Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle

Just a few thoughts I’d like to share with you. Here is an article “Making Room in Our Hearts for Our Lord and Our Neighbor” which I wrote and that was published at Catholic Mom today. In it, I have shared a few recent Advent observations including folks getting caught up in the mad rush and how we might help them.

Just now, in searching for a photo I needed for another article, I came across a blog post that I wrote just about this time last year. Wow. That had been quite an eventful week! You’ll need a cup of tea, coffee, or other beverage for this post–it’s a long one!

Here is a recent RADIO chat with good friends at EWTN’s Morning Glory show. I hope you can listen in at your convenience.

Here is a recent article at Catholic Exchange which shares an excerpt from my book: Advent with Our Lady of Fatima (Sophia Institute Press). You can order your book at Sophia Institute Press or here at my website.

Here’s the product page for my newest book: 52 Weeks with Saint Faustina: A Year of Grace and Mercy (Marian Press). You’ll see some of the reviews thus far. You can also order your copy there or through my website.

Coming Soon! “52 Weeks with Saint Faustina.”

October 8, 2018 - Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle

COMING SOON!

52 Weeks with Saint Faustina

(Marian Press)

Just as a little backdrop for you to share the blessings I received…

On Sunday night, October 4th, I returned home from leading a pilgrimage to France. The following day was the feast of St. Faustina!

After a strenuous, but very AMAZING trip, my body absolutely needed some time to rest and recuperate, especially because I am still healing up from a bad bicycle accident I was in a few short weeks before the pilgrimage and because I will be leaving very soon on another European trip. This one will be to give a Divine Mercy retreat to the military.

Well, on the morning of St. Faustina’s feast day, I sprang up out of bed at 4:00 AM. I felt rested enough and I decided to check my phone for messages. Right at that exact time, I received a text from a dear priest friend who said he was going to the National Shrine of Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Mass. that day. Oh, how I longed to go. But, practically speaking, it seemed impossible to me, logistics-wise, etc. But still, I felt deeply inspired to embark on that trip with my husband–jet lag and all! So, we both began our work very early that day and finished in time to set out for the Shrine.

I am so glad and incredibly grateful that we did! For on that very day, I was handed a copy of an advance reader’s copy of my book “52 Weeks With Saint Faustina.” What a surprise! I didn’t know it was ready. As well, I participated in holy Mass, the Rosary, the Divine Mercy chaplet, Adoration, Benediction, and more. It was so meaningful to me on the special feast. What incredible blessings! And ones I could never have anticipated since I did not plan to go to the Shrine that day!

After that, I met Fr. Anthony Gramlich, MIC (in photo above and below) who had celebrated the Mass and gave a beautiful homily on St. Faustina. We had a lovely spiritual conversation and I was blessed to receive his blessing on my book and the work of the book, the people who will read it, etc, as well as a blessing for my husband and myself.

In addition to the amazing blessings that unfolded on dear St. Faustina’s feast day, I was told that the Nihil Obstat for the book came in on that very day! If that was not enough, later that day I received a vey beautiful foreword for my book which was written on St. Faustina’s feast day! I have included a very short snippet of it below. Certainly, God was showering me with amazing blessings on St. Faustina’s feast day! I am not worthy, but I am deeply grateful and blessed!

Here is the temporary book cover. It will be updated and will contain the subtitle. It will be available at Marian Press, my website, and in stores in December. It’s available to pre-order now through my website.

Description: Come spend 52 weeks with St. Faustina! Perfect for any time of the year, this collection of weekly meditations and activities by EWTN host Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle, author of The Miraculous Medal, guides readers on a 52-week spiritual pilgrimage through the life and teachings of the Secretary and Apostle of Divine Mercy, St. Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938).

Writing in her usual loving, thoughtful style, Donna-Marie offers readers a light-filled retreat, helping them welcome the grace and power of St. Faustina’s spiritual path of mercy and trust into their lives. Drawing deeply upon the wealth of spiritual insight and truth in the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul, Donna-Marie shares with the reader the fruits of her own discipleship at the feet of St. Faustina and other great saints of mercy, such as St. John Paul II and St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

Rich, beautiful, inspiring, this book will help bring light into your life, and prepare you to share that light with others, as well!

Shown on Amazon here. But, not available on Amazon yet as this is just the advance reader’s copy.

Available (and autographed!) for pre-order here. $15.95 each (plus shipping)

Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle, a great Marian Helper, popular author, and EWTN show host, has created about as faithful and as thorough a presentation on the spirituality and the writings of St. Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938), the Secretary and Apostle of Divine Mercy, as I’ve ever read. It’s a deep dive into the life and writings of one of the greatest mystics in the history of the Church, a religious sister who was given to us by God specifically for the times we are living in today…

Saint Faustina changes lives. The Divine Mercy message and devotion that she was given by Jesus, a reminder and a prophetic restatement of the classical Gospel teaching on the mercy of God, changes lives…

I hope that you’ll get a chance to partake in the “pilgrimage” in reading 52 Weeks with Saint Faustina for a beautiful transformation in your own life.