How One Woman Puts on Lipstick and Carries Her Cross To Teach Resilience: GIVEN Mentor Mary Lenaburg Mentors play a special role at the GIVEN Institute. Through the Art of Accompaniment Mentoring Program, established Catholic women guide the GIVEN cohort after the conclusion of the Leadership Forum for a year as they pursue their [...]
How One Woman Encourages Catholics to Live Out Their Faith Boldly: GIVEN Alumna Sister Felicity Wolf, O.P. “Now is the time for battle, suffering and merits!” - Venerable Kolumba Białecka, O.P. The GIVEN Institute strives to help young women discover their individual gifts and how they can be actualized in their state of [...]
How One Woman Heals Hearts and Souls: GIVEN Mentor Dr. Myma Albayda “Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do. I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.” - Mark 2:17 Three-time GIVEN mentor, Dr. Myma Albayda sees her role as a physician to serve both [...]
How One Woman Responds to God’s Call to Beauty through Art: GIVEN Mentor Dr. Sarah Maple "None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands.” - Saint John Paul [...]
How Mentorship Helps Sr. Mary Rachel Live Out the Feminine Genius: GIVEN Mentor Sister Mary Rachel Craig, SOLT "We must be saved together. We must arrive in Heaven together... We must all return together to our Father's home... what would he say to us if one of us came, if one of us [...]
How One Woman Is Embracing Spiritual Motherhood: GIVEN Mentor Sister Mary Amata Naville, OSF “Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.” – St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) The Italian word amata means “beloved” in [...]
