Veil + Armour: Holiness in Motherhood and Daily Life

Send us Fan Mail Happy Summer! We hope you are all enjoying a break with your family! This is a different format this week as I offer a short reflection, and a glimpse of my journey of exploring the femininity vs. feminism. This is a story of how I fell last year and it has taken more than a year to recover from that fall. I had a tendon tear, a TCL dislocation, muscle sprains etc. It's been...

Send us Fan Mail What changed everything for dynamic Catholic powerhouse couple Keith and Estelle Nester? Stay tuned to find out! Sheila was humbled and honoured to sit down with Keith and Estelle Nester at the Catholic Creator Conference in Steubenville, Ohio, last July, when Keith was the keynote speaker. Keith's conversion story from Methodist pastor to Catholic evangelist exploded on the...

Send us Fan Mail You can teach a child a thousand facts about faith and still miss the one thing that actually sticks: what faith and holiness looks like in the every day life of a Christian. Recording from the Catholic Creator Conference in Steubenville, Sheila  sits down with her husband, Joseph, a Religion teacher with 25+ years in the classroom, to talk about how families can transmit the Cath...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Easter, Sisters in Christ! Thank you very much for your patience! Motherhood, migraines, colds etc. have unfortunately slowed down our podcast production for the past couple of weeks. We sincerely appreciate you coming back to listen to our podcast. We hope it blesses you, that the stories of the women and men in Christ encourages and inspires you! For Divine Mercy Sunday, S...

Send us Fan Mail We return to Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen with Allan Smith, and have an in-depth conversation about why his preaching still converts people today, from television fame to a life built on mercy and the Cross.  We also pray our way through key themes from Christ’s Seven Last Words, especially forgiveness, confession, Mary’s motherhood, and how to suffer without wasting pain.  • Sheen’...

Send us Fan Mail Kyle Whittington: From a Teen Trip to Europe to Founding the Catholic Creator Conference Host Sheila Nonato has a candid conversation with Kyle Whittington—father of five, Air Force veteran, and founder of the Catholic Creator Conference in Steubenville, Ohio—on conversion and digital evangelization. Kyle recounts growing up around various Protestant churches, and then encounterin...

Send us Fan Mail MATURE TOPIC ON MARITAL INTIMACY: If you are around your children, earbuds or headphones are advisable :-) Welcome back, Sisters in Christ! Thank you very much for your patience! We are in the Third Week of Lent. How has it been going for you? How may we pray for you? This is the second half of the interview with Dr. Sarah Bartel, Catholic sex and marriage expert. The first half o...

Send us Fan Mail Father Rob Galea: Why I Quit X Factor and Chose Christ and the Priesthood - An Inspiring Journey from Darkness to Divine Light Join us for an extraordinary episode of the Veil +Armour Podcast, where host Sheila Nonato dives deep into an inspiring conversation with Fr. Rob Galea, an award-winning singer, songwriter, and Roman Catholic priest from Australia. Discover Fr. Rob's...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Blessed New Year, Sisters in Christ! New Year, New You in Christ! What if the most radical way to reclaim your soul this year is to look at one face and listen? We sit down with Allan Smith to explore the Holy Face of Jesus Devotion, the "Little Way" of St. Therese, and the deep Carmelite spirituality that shaped Venerable Fulton J. Sheen’s life and witness. Togeth...

Send us Fan Mail Merry Christmas Eve, Friends in Christ! We sincerely appreciate your prayers! Every listen, like, comment or subscription is like an answered prayer that the Good News is being heard on the Internet - a space where the battle between good and evil is being fought every single day. Thank you for joining us in that battle, especially with your prayers! This week, we continue our con...

Send us Fan Mail As we prepare to celebrate Christmas, please join us in this conversation about Canadian author and children's book illustrator Carissa Douglas: It is a story of how turned a family tragedy into a calling to become a mother of a large family. How did Carissa embrace this noble vocation that's shrouded in much mystery, and sometimes confusion or derision from an anti-Chri...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Third Week of Advent, Sisters in Christ! Please allow us to re-introduce Day 7 of the Mother's Day Retreat, with a bit of a background story to accompany it. It's a busy time for everyone, especially mothers, and it would be a good time to slow down, reflect, and spend time with Our Lord in prayer. This week, we share a mother’s path from grief to consolation throu...

Send us Fan Mail A mother’s raw account of postpartum crisis turns into a story of God-inspired healing: spiritual, psychological, and physical. We trace the years-long birth of the Merciful Love Veil, why veiling expresses dignity and freedom, and what is the future for Lily at Veils by Lily, and does she have a new adventure waiting for her in this season of life? • postpartum anxiety, depressio...

Send us Fan Mail For this first week of Advent, let us reflect upon Hope, Hope in Christ. We are honoured to welcome our next guest, Camille Mendoza, who is the designer of our podcast apostolate's logo!  She is a brand designer, and newly expectant mother! Congratulations, Camille! Camille shares the beautiful, heartfelt story of her daughter Lilo a lived a radiant, albeit short life, and ho...

Send us Fan Mail Parenting today can feel like being in a tornado or holding back a storm brewing in the background —graphic headlines on every feed, smartphones in every pocket, and a culture that treats faith as a long-lost relic of an age gone by. We invited Dr. Ray Guarendi—clinical psychologist, EWTN host, and father of ten adopted children—to help us navigate the chaos with clear judgment, d...

Send us Fan Mail We trace a family’s roots from Holocaust survival and Bishop von Galen’s courage to a modern Canadian home shaped by saints’ names, a modern-day courtship (with the help of a Catholic dating website), and faith that guides marriage, parenting, and public service. Practical habits and clear principles show how love endures amid busyness, travel, and six kids. • naming children afte...

Send us Fan Mail We honour veterans and their families this week. A Blessed Remembrance Day and Veterans' Day all veterans and their families, honouring those who made the ultimate sacrfice. What shapes the Filipino-Canadian identity? Sheila's husband, Joseph, traces a line from quiet devotion to public service, showing how heritage, resilience, and a shared purpose that builds a hopeful...

Send us Fan Mail A single line from Sacred Scripture sets the tone: faith, hope, and love. We invite you into a Mother’s Day Retreat reflection to remember the many crosses being carried by women around the world who have faced miscarriage, stillbirth, infertility, and the quiet ache of waiting, paired with a family pilgrimage tale that finds warmth on an icy road to Lourdes. We start in Barcelona...

Send us Fan Mail Veil + Armour at the Catholic Creator Conference: Start with Scripture, stay for the mission. We open with St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 6 and a family prayer, then trace the unexpected path from a mother’s return to journalism to a household apostolate that lives at the crossroads of motherhood and fatherhood—veil and armour together.  The spark was finding Tammy Peters...

Send us Fan Mail Support the show To reach Veil + Armour, please visit: https://veilandarmour.com https://www.youtube.com/@veilandarmour https://www.x.com/@sheilanonato https://www.sheilanonato.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/@veilandarmour What resonated with you the most about this episode? Feel free to email us and let us know! Email: veilandarmour@gmail.com If our podcast helped you in...

Send us Fan Mail Faith in the City, Jesus in the Streets: The Sisters Poor of Jesus Christ - A Vocation Story We share how the Sisters Poor of Jesus Christ lives a bold charism: serve Jesus in the poor, walk with families, and build a faith-based sobriety program called "Be Sober" to help individuals and their loved ones who are struggling with addiction (drugs, alcohol, sex addiction)....

Send us Fan Mail Day 5: The Catholic Mother's Retreat - Finding Christ in our homes and in Christian Homemaking In explaining homemaking to our children, we can use the metaphoric language of the kitchen table as similar to an altar where we offer our big and small sufferings and challenges of the day. That single idea reframes the noise, chores, and constant motion of family life as a sacred...

Send us Fan Mail Day 4: The Retreat for Catholic Mothers - Freedom from Impatience  We trace the path from “love is patient” to the Canadian shrine of Our Lady of the Cape, linking miracles and mission to the daily practice of gentleness at home. Stories of the Rosary Bridge and a statue’s open eyes ground a call to patient love in prayer and action. • freedom from impatience as a path to love • h...

Send us Fan Mail Day 3: Freedom from Comparison - Letting Go of our inner multi-tasking "Martha' and Embracing our contemplative "Mary" The pressure to be everything for everyone can drain the joy from home life. We step into a quieter, sturdier way: a day shaped by prayer, simple offerings, and a renewed understanding of vocation. From the first moments, we ground the conversa...

Send us Fan Mail Support the show To reach Veil + Armour, please visit: https://veilandarmour.com https://www.youtube.com/@veilandarmour https://www.x.com/@sheilanonato https://www.sheilanonato.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/@veilandarmour What resonated with you the most about this episode? Feel free to email us and let us know! Email: veilandarmour@gmail.com If our podcast helped you in...