Renewed: Ten Ways to Rediscover the Saints, Embrace Your Gifts, and Revive Your Catholic Faith

By Robert P. Reed and Cardinal Seán O'Malley, O.F.M. Cap.

In Renewed: Ten Ways to Rediscover the Saints, Embrace Your Gifts, and Revive Your Catholic Faith, Fr. Robert Reed—popular on-air host and president of the CatholicTV Network—issues a creative call to all Catholics to renew the Church by rediscovering the gifts of their faith. Reed profiles ten surprising pairs of saints who offer lessons in reviving faith, starting at the personal level and radiating outward to the wider Church.

Fr. Robert Reed, of the Archdiocese of Boston, believes that the best remedy for discouraged Catholics is a reclaimed sense of the tradition’s riches as embodied in the lives of the saints. In this passionate call to renewal, he profiles twenty saints who, like Catholics today, lived in times of crises when the way forward was unclear. Reed creatively pairs saints who at first glance seem to be unlikely companions—Augustine and Joan of Arc, Athanasius and Mother Teresa—to suggest ways readers can begin the work of personal renewal that is essential for Church-wide change. In a down-to-earth and encouraging tone, Reed provides ten persuasive and practical lessons such as “Discover and Receive Your Gifts,” “Look beyond the Present Troubles” and “Live with a True Spirit of Joy.” Renewed is a practical plan for the revitalization of the Church that maps out steps for a grassroots awakening that every Catholic can undertake today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ave Maria Press
• Release date: Oct 20, 2014
• ISBN: 9781594714719

Robert P. Reed

Robert Reed has long engaged television and new media for effective, entertaining and truthful sharing of Catholic faith and life. A priest of the Archdiocese of Boston and the president of the CatholicTV Network, Reed was born in Boston and currently lives in West Newton. He was educated at St. John’s Preparatory School and prepared for the priesthood at St. John Seminary College in Boston and the Pontifical North American College in Rome. Reed also studied broadcast administration at Boston University’s School of Communication. After being ordained a Catholic priest in 1985, Reed served in parishes in Malden, Norwood, Dorchester, Haverhill, and as pastor of Holy Ghost Parish in Whitman, Massachusetts. He was appointed to direct the CatholicTV Network in 2005. In addition to his administrative responsibilities at America’s Catholic Television Network®, Reed is also host of the game show WOW: The CatholicTV Challenge, and the reality series House+Home. He prays the Rosary with the television audience three times daily from various locations around the world; cohosts the network’s signature talk show, This Is the Day; and celebrates daily Mass many times throughout the month. Reed also provides commentary for various national and international events from installations, ordinations, and papal liturgies.