Spring SeriesWednesdays, January 14 - April 8, 2026
7:00-8:30 pm
St Clare Meeting Room
New to GIFT, no worries! We welcome all mothers. From entering motherhood to the joys of experiencing multi generations, GIFT is a community of mothers from all seasons of life. We gather weekly to share in our spiritual growth, support, and fellowsh. Our diverse group provides a welcoming atmosphere where moms can connect with one another, build friendships and strengthen their faith.
We invite you to join us this spring to read The Heart of Perfection: How the Saints Taught Me to Trade My Dream of Perfect for God's, by Colleen Carroll Campbell.Campbellan award-winning author and mother of four weaves her own stories and struggles with those of seven ex-perfectionist saints (and one heretic) who show us how to pursue a new kind of perfection: freedom in Christ.
Spiritual perfectionism—an obsession with flawlessness rooted in the belief that we can earn God’s love—is dangerous because so many of us mistake it for virtue. Its toxic cycle of pride, sin, shame, blame, and despair distorts our vision, dulls our faith, and leads us to view others through the same hypercritical lens we think God is using to view us.
In the ruins of her own mistakes, Colleen dug into Scripture and the lives of the canonized saints for answers. She discovered to her surprise that many holy men and women were, in fact, recovering perfectionists. And their grace-fueled victory over this malady—not perfectionist striving—was the key to their heroic virtue and contagious joy.