"Next to Mary, the greatest gift our Lord Jesus Christ has given us is the Church, where we receive and live our Catholic faith."

Hermie Climaco is a passionate Catholic who desires to share the love of God to others through the Catholic faith.

Born in the Philippines and later settling in the United States, she blends personal experience, Marian devotion, and deep love for God and the Catholic faith to create content that inspires, evangelizes, renews hearts and transforms lives.

Through her blog Catholic Women Disciples, her online ministry, and her book, Closer to God, Hermie offers reflections on prayer, motherhood, spiritual battles, answered prayers, and the quiet miracles that have shaped her life's spiritual journey.

With a warm and relatable voice, she aims to remind readers that God is present in every life's situation — in families, in Church communities, and even in suffering and loss, as well as in joy and in every moment that stirs the human heart towards God.

Hermie currently lives with her family in Virginia, U.S.A.

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Hello - welcome to my Author website. 

The beautiful history of man's beginnings drove me to immerse in the teachings and history of our Catholic faith, and to share through written words what I found - the beauty and richness of the Catholic faith -the Church that our Lord Jesus Christ Himself founded when he was here on earth.

Yet - our faith that officially started 2000 years ago - cannot be fathomed in a quick, easy way.

Jesus Himself told the disciples, "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now" (John 16:12).

It is on this note that I embarked on the Spiritual journey of knowing more  about the things and mysteries of our faith that the disciples back then could not yet grasp, and to taking along with me brothers and sisters in the same faith in that long and exciting journey of knowing and living the faith, until we fully reach unity with Jesus in the Holy Catholic Church.

For more about me . . . :D

I started writing at the age of 17. 

My first writing breakthrough was having an article published at a major publication - Woman’s Home Companion magazine - during my sophomore year in college, back in my home country -the Philippines. 

I have written articles and contributed stories to magazines and newspapers since, then.

I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication major in Journalism. 

I have worked as a researcher/analyst at the Armed Forces of  the Philippines in Manila, has held the position of Presidential Staff Officer III at the Office of the President of the Philippines in Malacanang, Manila and has worked as a Press Assistant and telephone operator/ receptionist at the Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 

I currently live with my family in Centreville, Virginia, United States. 

As this website indicates, I am passionate about my Catholic faith, and I desire to share  my life’s journey as a Catholic and to truly become a true woman disciple of God.. 

I  would like to invite you to also visit my other blog at catholicwomendisciples.com and my YouTube channel at youtube.com/@theholycatholicmass