Charlotte Ostermann

I write, speak, invest, network, and question to stimulate fruitful conversation. Let's talk about human flourishing! It begins with freedom. Holy leisure is the key to human being, freedom and generativity.  Please join me in the adventure of realizing Christ!

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Upschooling is in print!! There is no marketing budget, so I pray for word-of-mouth advertising. I was so excited to get a ringing endorsement from Joseph Pearce! Thanks for buying this for yourself and others (on Amazon). I’d love to hear your thoughts…

Full Spectrum Freedom is in print, and I hope you will get busy helping people reweave the contexts of human freedom. Thanks for buying (on Amazon). Thanks for responding.

After all these years, I was asked to finish Monsignor Krische’s interrupted project. Tada: Catholics on the Hill, Memories of the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center from 1977-2005 is now in print, and I am so glad! Buy it on Amazon.

Whoop!! I’m so excited to be on the podium again for the American Chesterton Society 2019 National Conference in Kansas City. There IS a God, and He loves poets! Ask me for the audio recording of this talk. It is also available from the Chesterton Society with all the talks.

The manuscript of Full Spectrum Freedom is now in the hands of the graphics guy! Please pray for him and for those who follow up their work in You, Free by reading its sequel.

Buy You, Free on Amazon!!

You, Free should be ready for purchase by the end of June. Please pray for me/it. Thanks to all who have shared in its creation.

 

My little JOY Foundation helped two Catholic artists win prizes in the CFAC Juried competition! Peggy Shopen, iconographer, won the $500 St. Bede prize. Kate Marin, sculptor, won the $1500 John Paul II Grand Prize. Congratulations!! Update: Guess what?!?! These two brought home prizes again in the 2018 show! This makes me very happy!

JOY supports award winning iconographer Peggy Shopen.
JOY helped Kate’s sculpture travel to become the grand prize winner!

Videos are now available of my talk for the G.K. Chesterton Conference last summer:

https://youtu.be/pZRrYfZ-HOk

 

Last year’s Dare Something Challenge newsletter is now a book! I did have requests to keep the newsletter going this year, but not the time to give to it. I hope this book, extended from the monthly encouragement, will make the whole gift of it accessible to more people.

(You should be able to click on the image to find the book at Amazon.)

In Salon Season 15, we’ll consider a Catholic approach to contemporary art:sf-interior-season-15-brochure

 

destiny blurb4My first full-length volume of poetry is published! Get A Destiny to Burn here, or through Amazon.

I’ve also recorded every poem, as poems should be heard in order to be fully realized.

 

 

In Salon Season 14, we’ll read the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins…my muse!

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The Souls at Work Study Guide is ready to download (great for your own reflection and journaling, or for your book study group discussion) and you can ‘hear’ all my own answers to every Study Guide question!

Download FREE Souls at Work Study Guide.     Check out all the author’s answers: Charlotte’s Responses.

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Yes, I actually did all the work I’m asking you to do. As I said at the very beginning of Souls at Work – this book is still being written in your responses and in my own. I got a lot out of answering those questions. I just wish we could all be discussing them in person!

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I just finished a 90+ page event planning guide: How to Plan a Great Catholic Event. For you, please share.

Salon Season 13: Consider The role of the artist vis social justice…reading St. Pope John Paul’s play, Our God’s Brother.

Our God's Brother Invitation

Catholic Artists Conference

I’ll speak at the Catholic Artists Conference being held in September, 2016 in Omaha. My talk will be The Poet as Troublemaker: Why the Church Needs Artists. Don’t worry, I”m not going to give the Church a hard time, just stir up the waters a bit in the hearts of artists and poets!

I’m Inked In!

For the 2016 Chesterton Conference in PA (first weekend in August).  I’ll present Joy in Three Persons, with some Chestertonian bonus materials!

Salon Season Twelve was Great!

We read about St. Pope John Paul’s Rhapsodic Theatre, and held a public viewing of the movie version of his play, “The Jeweller’s Shop”.

Happy New Year! Join my Catholic Bible Study:

Catholic365 is airing my Catholic Bible Study series on the book of Ephesians. It has always been a favorite of mine, but the Catholic Catechism is giving it amazing new, ecclesial dimensions…and ya’ll know how I love ‘dimensionality’! Introduction    Bless You     Ways & Means        God’s Plan for Your Life       Christ to the Third Power  You, to the First Power  You, to the Second Power

ME on EWTN’s Journey Home show!

I had a blast taping an interview with Marcus Grodi. I’m so impressed by the work the Coming Home Network is doing, and his staff could not have made me feel more warmly welcomed. Here’s the link to our show: http://chnetwork.org/2015/02/charlotte-ostermann-former-nazarene-presbyterian

Come hear about my conversion experience and pray it will be a blessing to someone who’s considering the Catholic Faith.

Souls at Rest is Ready:

Angelico Press/Second Spring Books has just published Souls at Rest: An Exploration of the Eucharistic Sabbath. There’s been no change to the text since this book received the Catholic Writers Guild Seal of Approval, but the Study Guide is a free ebook now – great for book study groups and individuals. Look for Dan Burke’s endorsement in the New Year, and watch for my columns to start appearing at Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction, too.

“I know of no better treatment of the subject…Charlotte Ostermann has given a gift to us in revealing the wisdom of God’s call to rest.” Dan Burke, Author: Navigating the Interior Life

Merry Christmas to all!

As of the First Birthday of 50 Million Names, we have almost 5,000 names for aborted babies! NEWS FLASH: Just before Easter, we’re heading for 8,000 names!! Please help: 50MillionNames.org

Happy Thanksgiving to me!

Just got invited to speak at Benedictine College’s Symposium for Advancing the New Evangelization, to tape an interview with Marcus Grodi for EWTN’s Journey Home show, and to speak for the next KS Catholic Homeschooling Conference!!!

September 7: Great article about the 50 Million Names Project in the National Catholic Register.

Season Eleven: Catholic Creatives Salon: Beauty Informed by Death. I can’t wait to see where this leads us!

Cyrus Simcoe interviewed me about Souls at Work: Relevant Radio

I was interviewed on “My Catholic Blog” about Catholics Communicate Christ: How to Serve the Catholic Church as a Writer.

I’m on the radio: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could collect 50,000,000 names to honor the aborted babies from our country? I’m hoping you’ll agree. Please go to donate names for these children at 50MillionNames.org. I’m collecting names for aborted babies: The 50 Million Names memorial website is living and active and attracting participants from all over the world! Please honor the babies – give them names! Listen to my radio interviews with Day Gardner and Fr. Jay Finelli about this project.

Published! My book Souls at Work: An Invitation to Freedom came out in the summer of 2014 through Angelico Press!! It’s the sequel to Souls at Rest: An Exploration of the Idea of Sabbath. SAR received the Catholic Writers Guild Seal of Approval! Angelico Press is publishing the Second Edition later in 2014, and renaming it slightly just to emphasize the Eucharist. No text has changed since the Seal of Approval. Watch for Souls at Rest: An Exploration of the Eucharistic Sabbath.

My initiative: Since I haven’t got the bucks for big philanthropy, I invented smaller-is-better philanthropy! Our tiny little Joy Foundation is trying to do a little local good by investing in Catholic cultural initiatives.

Now I’m certified: I’ve earned the Art, Beauty & Inspiration Certificate from Maryvale Institute!

I’m a songwriter! Here’s Angel Road singing my song Bring Me Low

Season Ten: The Catholic Creatives Salon just finished season TEN! We read Josef Pieper’s In Tune with the World – A Theory of Festivity. Here’s a glimpse into the inner life of the Salon: observations from our Feast of St. Joseph. I gave a talk at Benedictine College (Symposium for the New Evangelization), drawn from this very Salon season: Three Dimensional Transcendentals.

Did I mention Catholics Communicate Christ? I really want to encourage Catholics to serve the Church as writers.

In Progress: I’m trying to get my booklets 25 Ways to Help an Artist: The Art of Low Cost Philanthropy and Life in Motion: Why I Love Driver Education Time With My Teens out in new formats soon. Someday, I want to get my Fun With Diagramming and Holy Geometry! out of home school ‘beta’ testing and into print, too.

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Building the Bridge

This is my most-requested audio – about how we can educate our children well, despite our own inadequacies. The Problem – We must get kids from where they are, to where they need to be; from ‘uneducated’ to ‘educated’. Given the poverty of our own education, we feel asked to do the impossible: build a […]

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Putting Down Sabbath Roots

Some audiences want to cut right to the chase: “Give us practical applications of all your ideas about Sabbath-keeping.” OK – here you go: In this talk I do just that – give concrete, practical ways to dip into the kind of leisure that brings  interior equanimity and leaves you more whole, more human, more […]

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Women on the Way to Healing

I prepared this talk for the Heart of a Woman group, in Kansas City, shortly after the suicide of a Catholic mother of ten. It was a shock to me, but not entirely unexpected, as I had known her during the years she struggled with depression and disintegration, despite her devotion to the Church, Christ, […]

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High Resolution Beauty

For an Apostles of the Interior Life Women’s Retreat, where the theme was “The King Desires Your Beauty,”  I prepared this truly interesting talk. Will you believe me when I say that this is another of my favorites?!?! I know, I’ve said that about a  lot of these talks, but revisiting them to give a […]

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Sabbath is a Woman

I once asked a friend who calls herself a Jewish-Catholic if it had been hard for her to accept Mary’s role in Salvation History. She laughed and said, “Heck no! Every Sabbath was begun by a Jewish mama’s prayers! I’d have been suspicious if Lord Sabbaoth hadn’t come through a woman.” Jewish women welcomed Sabbath […]

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The Veiled Self

Differences between the original myth of Cupid and Psyche, and C.S. Lewis’ retelling of the myth in Till We Have Faces have the effect of revealing new dimensionality in the Christian understanding of both myth and of the human person. The pre-Christian myth, like the pre-Christian person, is veiled in a darkness that constitutes a […]

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About a Landscape

In “Stour Valley and Dedham Church”  Constable has painted the Vale of Dedham – a familiar and beloved area of his native England.

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A Merry Drinker

 “The Merry Drinker,” by Frans Hals This is a portrait of an unnamed man, called in the title only ‘a merry drinker’.

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A Wedding Feast

Giotto’s painting, The Wedding Feast at Cana, portrays the literal and spiritual senses of this story.

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St. Francis Altar

Berlinghieri’s St. Francis  appears behind the altar of San Francesco in Pescia, Italy. It is an excellent example of art ordered to divine worship.

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A is for Atmosphere

A mom is the caretaker of a huge, wonderful, potentially beautiful, critically important place! She, herself, this actual, unique person, is the single most important ‘environment’ in the lives of her children. Like Mary, like the Church, she is an atmosphere. She is an atmosphere of affection. This is not just warm, fuzzy feelings, but […]

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Three-Dimensional Transcendentals

Benedictine College hosted a Symposium for Advancing the New Evangelization in 2014. The theme was Transcendentals as Preambles to Faith, and I got to propose my take on that as a paper. Anyone who knows me could probably have bet good money I’d do something ‘three dimensional’ with that, and they’d have won those bets. […]

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A Prayer, A Poem, A Person, A Place

I once got a chance to do an all-day retreat with one of the sister Apostles of the Interior Life. Naturally, I wanted to discuss the role of leisure in the formation of persons! As usual, I prayed about the upcoming event, and God brought together several threads of my contemplation to weave this talk. […]

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Living Poems

Did you know YOU are a poem? Check out Ephesians 2:10, where the Greek ‘poema’ is usually translated ‘workmanship’. I like ‘poema’ better, as it implies beauty and artistry, but ‘workmanship’ is nice. I’ve discussed the importance of poetry, poetic education, poetic imagination and poetic reading in many different venues (many of the talk topics […]

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