Saints for Single Mothers

For a woman raising children mostly or entirely on her own. Twenty chapters, each on one thing a single mother faces: doing it all alone, exhaustion, money, the father who is gone, abuse survived, anger, guilt, raising them in faith with no one beside you, a child going the wrong way, a child who is suffering, loneliness, being judged, loving again, being both parents, God seeming absent, and whether any of it matters. Each chapter gives three people who lived it, sixty in all, from Scripture and the calendar of saints. Elizabeth Ann Seton, widowed at twenty-nine with five children and no money. Margaret of Cortona, turned away by her own father with her son beside her. Monica, who prayed seventeen years for Augustine. Hagar in the desert. Rizpah on the rock. Every entry has a question to ask, the story told plainly, and one line to keep. The chapter on abuse says it directly: no woman is holier for staying within reach of a man who hurts her or her children. A toolkit at the back sorts all sixty by what you are facing tonight. You do not have to be Catholic to use it.

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