Look Who’s Reading … Cathy Gilmore

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I know Cathy Gilmore as a CMN Marketing and Communication Specialist and as an award-winning author, educator, founder and Executive Director of the VIRTUE WORKS MEDIA ministry. Cathy’s down-to-earth exuberance about the things of Heaven help everyone who interacts with her feel more hopeful about coping with the stuff of earth.

Cathy calls herself a Bionic Catholic: a “revert” to the Catholic faith for whom God’s grace has turned her brokenness into strengths. After being raised as a K-12 Catholic, she left the Catholic Church as an adult for about 5 years. She didn’t believe in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, and felt she wasn’t being “fed” in the Catholic Church. She went to find a church where Jesus was living and active through the word of God…in a non-denominational Christian community and became bull-doggedly anti-Catholic.

Cathy’s personal Ananias who guided her rediscovery of the rich truths and traditions of Catholicism was a Lutheran-Pastor-turned-Catholic-Priest convert who taught a course on Early Church history. His teaching gave her a new-found appreciation for the sacramental Church founded by Christ and for the spiritual giants upon whose shoulders the most ancient Christian Church rests.  Now Cathy pours her passion into helping parents, grandparents and teachers to be effective spiritual mentors to the children and teens that they love. She shows everyone how to cultivate the spiritual strength of virtue through a surprising means…the choice of books to read and movies to watch.

Find out more about the family virtue ministry that Cathy founded: Virtue Works Media click on this link to check out the informational website. For the latest information as this organization emerges, follow Virtue Works Media@PowerofParable on Facebook.