Forgiving Mother: A Marian Novena of Healing and Peace

Written by Marge Steinhage Fenelon

Narrated by Therese McLaughlin

Forgiving Mother offers you practical guidance and spiritual wisdom to begin your journey to wholeness of spirit. Highly recommended! — Lisa M. Hendey, author, The Grace of Yes

Marge Steinhage Fenelon knows the pain, fear, hopelessness, insecurity, resentment and anger of being raised by a troubled mother. She also knows the way out: Mary.

In Forgiving Mother, Fenelon deftly explores the ways the Blessed Virgin can provide comfort and healing if you truly desire it. Drawing from personal experience as well as wisdom from Church documents, Scripture, and the saints, Fenelon sketches a path from despair to peace. She offers concrete steps and prayers to help you deal with the painful memories, emotions and fears that are rooted in your past.

Part memoir, part spiritual guide, Forgiving Mother is a workbook for healing even the most deeply rooted pain. It also includes a novena, which you can pray alongside each chapter or as a final step in the healing process. You will likely find solace from going through the novena again and again, as you’ll find healing is a cyclical process—not a linear one.

You are a child of Mary and she loves you tenderly. She really, truly is your mother—given to you by our Lord as he hung dying on the cross. Jesus wants you to accept his mother as your own and to develop a deepening relationship with her so that she can fill the void that the past has left inside of you. And in her kind, motherly way, she will. What’s more, she will lead you to her son who, as God, is the ultimate source of all healing and peace.

Pray through it, meditate on it, and let Mary’s love sink into your heart and soul. Above all, be gentle with yourself. This is your healing process, and no one else’s. With the Blessed Mother’s help, you can become the whole, healed and truly cherished person you were meant to be.

The audio edition of this book can be downloaded via Audible.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Franciscan Media
• Release date: Feb 20, 2018
• ISBN: 9781632532282

Marge Steinhage Fenelon

Marge Steinhage Fenelon is an award-winning Catholic author and journalist, international speaker, and longtime contributor to a variety of Catholic and secular publications and websites. Fenelon has written several books on Marian devotion, including Imitating Mary. The bestselling Our Lady, Undoer of Knots received a 2017 Association of Catholic Publishers Excellence in Publishing Award. My Queen, My Mother earned a Catholic Press Association Award in 2020. Fenelon is the host of the Simply Holy podcast on Breadbox Media, a popular guest on Catholic radio and television, and a regular contributor to Relevant Radio’s Morning Air. She earned a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and a certificate in spiritual mentoring from Cardinal Stritch University. She has a certificate in Marian studies from the International Marian Research Institute and is a member of the Mariological Society of America. She completed an intensive training program for foreign journalists by the Pontifical University of Holy Cross in conjunction with the Vatican Office of Communications in Rome and traveled with the Catholic Press Association to the Holy Land as part of Pope Francis’ historic pilgrimage in 2014. In 2015, she was awarded the Egan Fellowship for journalistic excellence, traveling to the Philippines to write about the ongoing reconstruction efforts after Super Typhoon Haiyan. In 2016, Fenelon was accepted to the Jordan Tourism Board religious journalist and blogger tour to write about the “other Holy Land,” Jordan. Fenelon is an instructor for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Deacon Wives Program.