Feeding Your Family's Soul: Dinner Table Spirituality - Softcover

“Donna-Marie’s book is a real treasure. The family has been called the “domestic church” and it is there that we first learn about God, our prayers, and how to live our Christian life. Donna-Marie certainly offers a valuable tool, because when the family gets together for a meal, it is an appropriate time to share and teach the faith. We are reminded at a meal that we not only feed our body, but we need to feed our soul with God’s word and message.” ―Fr. Andrew Apostoli, C.F.R., Founding member of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal and Host of EWTN’s Sunday Night Prime

“There is no shortage of studies showing the importance of family meal time. Add in the spiritual component of prayer and teaching the faith and you have, as Donna Marie so eloquently illustrates, a recipe for success.  Follow Donna Marie’s plan and you’ll be fortifying your loved ones in their faith now and in the future.” ―Teresa Tomeo, Syndicated Catholic talk show Host and bestselling Catholic author

"This is a very important book for the Church and the culture today, and will no doubt help shape the hearts and minds of parents and children to be more like the Holy Family. Fr. Patrick Peyton said it best: "The family that prays together, stays together." When families truly begin to pray together, the culture will experience the love and mercy of Jesus."
―Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers

"An altar is also a table.  It is the scene both of self-sacrificial love and of a meal signifying and embodying communion with God and one another.  In Feeding Your Family's Soul, Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle shows us how to help make our dinner table into an altar of worship and love centered around family meal times.  Read this wise and practical book and find a way to help your family become happier and holier.  Taste and see that the Lord is good!"
―Mark P. Shea, Author, This is My Body: An Evangelical Discovers the Real Presence

"With gentle affection for her readers and an invigorating passion for the Catholic faith, Donna-Marie's new book is a gift of great value to Catholic parents and grandparents, everywhere. Feeding Your Family's Soul is a wise and delectable fusion of insights, stories, recipes, and prayers that will inspire and empower you to evangelize your family in the most natural of environments: the sacred space around your kitchen table."
―Lisa Mladinich, Founder of AmazingCatechists.com and author of Heads Bowed: Prayers for Catholic School Days

Feeding Your Family's Soul: Dinner Table Spirituality by Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle is a vital tool to enable parents to transform a regular dinner time into a prayerful faith lesson for their elementary school to high school aged children. It will indeed help to fulfill the Catholic Church's vision for evangelization in the family and beyond. Through 52 fun and creative faith lessons (one for each week of the year), Feeding Your Family's Soul is one-of-a-kind instruction guide will encourage parents and caregivers to seize the opportunity in teaching the Catholic faith to the children (the captive audience waiting to eat!) while gathered at the dinner table, and while reminding them of the value of coming together as a family to break bread and share hearts. Thoroughly 'reader friendly' in tone, content, commentary, organization and presentation, Feeding Your Family's Soul is very highly recommended for personal, family, church Christian Parenting collections. ―Midwest Book Review

“A daily dinnertime treat. Many families are missing real conversations and real connectivity to each other and to God at the dinner table, and this book is the solution.” ―Regina Lordan, Catholic News Service

“Feeding Your Family's Soul: Dinner Table Spirituality is a perfect guide for infusing dinner prayer time with more depth, a brief, but meaningful lesson about the Catholic faith, the saints, and the fundamental teachings of the Catechism in a way that is approachable for families, practical in terms of time required, and uplifting in nature. I highly recommend Feeding Your Family's Soul: Dinner Table Spirituality for any and all Christian families interested in a closer walk with Christ and a more intimate connection with the members of their family.” ―Trisha Niermeyer Potter, “Points of Grace”