Grace Before Meals: Recipes & Inspiration for Family Meals & Family Life is a first-of-its-kind book that provides a welcome resource for parents who want their children to know that, no matter what happens in their lives, they can always talk to their families.

The goal of Grace Before Meals is to provide ways to communicate with your family that affirm and encourage your children’s growth in character and personal confidence.

Using the most ordinary tools in the most familiar places, this book helps create meals that are as satisfying and memorable in their creation as they are when served.

We are pleased to announce that you can now purchase Grace Before Meals: Recipes & Inspiration for Family Meals & Family Life from the Grace Before Meals online store.

Fr. Leo takes practical ideas and a real-life approach to discussing important spiritual themes that impact busy families. He then mixes it with a simple combination of recipes related to personal milestones, family holidays and faith observances to help parents create a comfortable environment for honest communication. Each chapter contains:

• Now featuring Fr. Leo's Throwdown-winning fajita recipe
• A short reflective essay
• Questions and topics to discuss during the meal
• More than 30 healthy, easy-to-prepare recipes
• Scripture references
• Dozens of family-friendly cooking and parenting tips

"Patalinghug is using his role as a budding celebrity chef to preach the importance of the dinner table in family life." - Washington Post

"Father Leo Patalinghug is looking to bring families closer together and closer to God using the simplest of recipes: Stir things up and have dinner together." - National Catholic Register

"Grace Before Meals is a movement. A movement to get families back to the kitchen to feed each other - physically and spiritually." - Catholic Digest