Well Read Mom
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Well Read Mom 2023-2024:
Year of the SeekerOUR MISSION
Well-Read Mom accompanies women in the reading of great books and spiritual classics to encourage personal growth, friendship, and meaningful conversations in order to explore the human condition and reorient ourselves to what is good, beautiful, and true.
OUR VISION
In Well-Read Mom, women read more and read well. Our hope is to deepen the awareness of meaning hidden in each woman’s daily life, elevate the cultural conversation, and revitalize reading literature from books.
OUR METHOD
Women stay together in the reading as we compare and share literature.
- Accompany: As we accompany one another, there is accountability, support, and a sense of belonging that helps to foster the habit of regular reading.
Staying on pace together and reading the same books across the nation
facilitates awareness of a wider and deeper cultural conversation. - Read: We give ourselves permission to find time and space to read the
selected literature, allowing it to penetrate our minds and hearts. - Compare: We enter into the drama of the story and examine our own
questions as they come forth, asking, “What does this mean for my life?” - Share: We first listen to the WRM prepared monthly audio and then discuss the book, offering something of ourselves through sharing personal insights and experiences, along with conversation and questions that arise from the text.
OUR GOALS
- To suggest works of literature that encourage women to grow intellectually,
spiritually, and personally through deepened thought and conversation. - To foster meaningful friendship among women and thus to counteract the
increasing isolation characteristic of our culture. -
To deepen awareness of the immensity of meaning hidden in each woman’s daily life.
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To build community locally and nationally through meetings and Well-Read Mom events.
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To provide original resource materials that illuminate the literature through the lens of Catholic tradition.
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To encourage intentional family life, reading in the home, and all mothers’ awareness of their unique presence in the heart of the family.
There are hundreds of Well Read Mom groups around the world, and dozens in our area. The group at Our Lady of Mercy is run by Becca Hadley. To join, email Becca (bhadley@olom.org) or register here.
- Accompany: As we accompany one another, there is accountability, support, and a sense of belonging that helps to foster the habit of regular reading.
