Plan or Attend aVirtue-Powered Event
Virtue Advocate, Cathy Gilmore, offers a range of valuable presentations for all ages. Contact us to find out more.
The Heroic Virtue Event
All ages are empowered by Cathy’s Heroic Virtue Integrated Events. Choose between two popular options:
FIRST OPTION:
One full day of dynamic experiences for children, youth, and grown-ups with Cathy’s powerful virtue message customized for each age group:
Virtue Surprises Storytime: Energizing CHILDREN with the desire for HEROIC virtue through charming stories and characters. (Morning)
Playing with Fire: Empowering YOUTH with motivation to discover their virtue vocation. (Afternoon)
Light in the Dark: Equipping PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS and TEACHERS to be VIRTUE MENTORS coming along side children and teens to help them WANT to live a life of heroic virtue. (Evening)
SECOND OPTION:
Light in the Dark for Couples: An evening event for parents, targeted toward couples, learning to work as a team to be VIRTUE MENTORS to their children and teens. Cathy integrates the methods she uses in her Virtue Surprises Storytime, and Playing with Fire events and teaches the skill to parents.
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Virtue Surprises Storytime
Cathy’s Virtue Surprises Storytime events are so much more than a simple author visit. She includes her menagerie of “characters who build CHARACTER in kids” as she trains children in fresh and fun ways to be spiritually strong! Children are delighted and inspired with the Virtue Heroes stories, seasonal surprises, and heroic virtue superpowers!
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Become a Virtue Mentor
Plan a “Being Light in the Dark” event for parents and grandparents at your church or school. Get equipped to come alongside and joyfully guide children and teens to desire virtue. Learn to be a Virtue Mentor and help children and grand-children navigate our spiritually dark and morally confused culture. Click the LINK to learn more.
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Empowering Educators
Cathy’s dynamic presentations for educators help to enhance effective catechesis by integrating imagination in the educational process. Infuse the power of heroic virtue experienced through the literature, film and music of culture into the educational process.
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BINGO! Practical Virtue for Moms
Women’s groups are strengthened by Cathy’s presentations. They gain hope and confidence in to raise children of character in a culture that slaughters children’s innocence. Cathy helps moms set positive entertainment boundaries in the home. Plus, Virtue Heroes Power Bingo is the simplest and most joyful behavior motivation tool available for families today.
Heroic Virtue Event
On October 6, Cathy is delighted to spend the day at St. Jude Parish in Illinois. She is presenting “Virtue Surprises Storytime” to primary age children in the morning, followed by “Playing with Fire - Your Virtue Vocation” with the middle grade students. In the evening at 6:30 PM She will present her “Light in the Dark” session with motivation and inspiration to parents, grandparents, and teachers.
CMN MOMENTUM'22 Event
Cathy invites everyone to join her in Schaumburg, IL for all or part of the CMN MOMENTUM’22 Event. It is actually is a gathering of mission-minded Catholics that includes 3 different conference tracks…with a Trade Show in the Expo Hall on top. Truly there is content to equip and edify everyone! Here are links for information about all the different tracks:
Host organization: Catholic Marketing Network: https://bit.ly/3xR3AUx
MOMENTUM'22 Event Registration: https://bit.ly/3MCGdmD
Discount Hotel Stay at the Marriott link: https://bit.ly/3mBY69x
CEMA Pillars of Faith Conference details: REVIVED by the EUCHARIST - UNITED by the ROSARY: https://bit.ly/3mBYgh9
LAW of LIFE SUMMIT details: https://bit.ly/3MC96OQ
Celebration of Life Reception: https://bit.ly/3mFSwDa
Catholic Writers Guild event details: https://bit.ly/3xE1yH4
St. Nicholas Christmas Show
Cathy Gilmore, creator of the Tiny Virtue Heroes, is bringing her unique ability to enrich family faith formation to the first ever St. Nicholas Christmas Show. Cathy’s work as event planner for this amazing 2-day family experience guarantees that it will be a delightful combination of FAITH and FUN!
Spend time with Cathy at 1PM each day in the Virtue Village for stories, songs, and virtue superpowers! It will be decorated as the encampment of the three kings, on the way to honor Jesus in Bethlehem. You just might meet Amel’s King Balthazar - strolling around to meet the children! Cathy will also have a large cut out of Amel the Camel and Baby Jesus, from TVH book: Wisdom Finds a Way, that is perfect for a fun photo-op.
Virtue Heroes at the International Week of Prayer and Fasting
Virtue Heroes Creator, Cathy Gilmore, is joining this incredible team of presenters to inspire prayer and fasting for nine powerful days at the end of October. It starts with Holy Mass with Bishop Strickland on Saturday October 23, at 1 PM Eastern. Register online to get the detailed schedule for each day that includes Holy Mass, Divine Mercy Chaplet, speakers and more. The event is FREE but there are so many amazing presentations that many people choose to get an all access pass - and view or listen to them on demand during and after the event dates.
Catholic Brain Catechetical Institute Conference: Practicing the VIRTUE of PRUDENCE
Cathy invites Catholic educators, DRE’s, parish leaders, and anyone involved with the faith formation of a child, to come to the Schaumburg Convention Center just outside Chicago from July 28 - 29 for a powerful experience. Cathy’s presentation: Practicing the Virtue of Prudence is part of a great line-up at the Catholic Brain Catechetical Institute National Conference.
The CBCI Conference is part of a larger event called MOMENTUM’21 hosted by the Catholic Marketing Network. This gathering of ministry-minded Catholics - who are active in parishes, schools, ministries, businesses, and devotional apostolates - equips us to evangelize, catechize and mobilize the faithful together. Pastors and leaders of parish evangelization and marketing committees are encouraged to come and discover tools and methods to energize the faithful, and also to bring those who have drifted away… back to Church!
Humble & Hidden Jesus
St. Louis area friends are invited to join Cathy for a very special Children’s activity during the special Eucharistic Miracles exhibit at Ascension Parish in Chesterfield.
VIRTUAL Easter Bunny's Amazing Day Storytime
Join Cathy and the St. Louis Daughters of Saint Paul on ZOOM for an eggs-tra special Holy Saturday event!
This virtual ZOOM event will include Easter Bunny’s Amazing Day story time, songs, and
the “Trade Fear for Joy” prayer activity for children age 3-7.
Mission Virtue Virtual Rosary Bowl for all Ages
Parents and teachers from across the continent are invited to join VIRTUALLY with children and grownups praying together for the whole world. As part of the Coalition of Eucharistic and Marian Apostolates - Triumph Tour 2020, Virtue Heroes founder, Cathy Gilmore is gathering a team of children acting as Virtue Heroes, each representing the five Mission Virtue Regions of the world, (Asia, Oceania, Europe, Africa, and the Americas) to pray the World Mission Rosary together, at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows, on October 8, 2020 at 3PM Central Standard Time. Click on the image to know more.
Catholic Brain Virtual Retreat
Cathy’s Catholic Brain Retreat Presentation:
How you can help children and youth overcome the moral toxins and spiritual emptiness of modern culture with… JOYFUL HEROIC VIRTUE!
Virtue Heroes Founder, and Virtue Advocate, Cathy Gilmore, will be a featured speaker at the National Catholic Brain Virtual Retreat for Catechists, Faith Formation Leaders and Parents (who now are teamed up with educators more personally than ever before) who are working to form children in faith in the midst of difficult times.
Cathy’s presentation will equip you with practical tools to help children and youth overcome the moral toxins and spiritual emptiness of modern culture with JOYFUL heroic virtue!
Register for FREE at www.CatholicBrain.com . Here’s the link: https://catholicbrain.com/conference
Cathy’s presentation is at 2:00 PM on Saturday, September 5, on the second day of an amazing 2-day retreat experience for anyone preparing to form children in faith this fall.
Check out the video below and get to know Mosongo Osong, founder of Catholic Brain, in a Catholic Marketing Network interview by Virtue Heroes founder, Cathy Gilmore.