This book was beautifully written and a true treasure. As a Catholic woman in a faith-based book group, The Friendship Project was a great addition to our rotation. I loved the wisdom, insight, and Christian reflections focusing on exemplary saints and role models that we can aspire to embody. The emphasis on creating and cultivating friendships that honor the Lord and are rooted in love and faith was beautifully conveyed. The book revolves around being a better friend and supporting friends along their journey. This book was also a delightful gift to the many Catholic women that I have as friends. Such a treat!

In a world of surface-level friendship fueled mainly by social media connections, these writers help us see how we can bring it back to Christ-centered, soul-level friendships. This would be a great book to work through along with a book club or group of friends. It is definitely one that challenges and makes you want to take steps to becoming a better friend.

Making and being a friend as an adult is hard. The authors Michele Faehnle and Emily Jaminet have been friends for over 20 years, they even had babies on the same day in in the same hospital. #friendshipgoals
There are 8 chapters they look at modern examples of the friendships of the authors and their friends as well as friendships examples of saints and women of the bible. I had heard about some of these saintly friendships before but it is a treasure to learn more especially in light of the virtues as well as to discover some new ones.
The book explores virtues to help us become better friends. Focusing on the virtues faith, hope, prudence, gratitude, loyalty, generosity and prayerfulness. The value of these in friendship is often dismissed but I have come to appreciate them.
The book provides practical advice and strategies to grow in virtue and to implement them into our relationships.
This book would be a great group study for a women's group or even a long standing group of friends.

Spiritual friendships need to come from your own heart, and they need to be nurtured regularly. The Friendship Project tells you how, complete with personal stories to encourage you and tales of friendships among the saints to inspire you. This book inspires women to foster friendships based on holy virtues. The Friendship Project invites you outside your personal cocoon into a world of relationship where you and your friends encourage each other.
Friends since college, Michele and Emily write from their own experience, sharing the joys of their twenty-year friendship. Each chapter features a pair of women saints who were friends, and focuses on one virtue that will help us to become better friends and deepen our spiritual friendships.

The Friendship Project is a thorough resource for Christian women seeking to cultivate friendships with like-minded women who seek to grow in holiness.

Organized by applicable virtues and examples of saint friends, the authors guide the reader in examining her relationships and offering concrete suggestions for both making new friends, deepening spiritual friendships, and being a better friend.

My withholding a star says less about the book than its applicability to my own life. My heart ached at the descriptions of deep, long-lasting, supportive friendships which have been absent from my own life for decades. My dearth of friendships left some of the material irrelevant to me at present.

Unfortunately, there's no magic formula for meeting friends, but The Friendship Project provides some useful tips to find friends which I hope to apply (although I admit that outside of personal prayer, they are somewhat a nightmare for an introvert).

Would make an excellent resource for small groups (for which additional guidance and materials are available).

A meaningful reflection on the purpose and value of friendship, seen in the light of the Catholic faith. Drawing on the writings of saints and scholars, "The Friendship Project" gives readers a deeper insight into the power of authentic relationships as a valuable aid to holiness and happiness.

This book challenged me to reach out to my old friends and to make new ones, revealing the true meaning of friendship. Emily and Michele share their lives, their experience in a very honest way and they talk about the virtues we need to nurture true friendship. One of the most interesting aspects of the book is to see the saints with their friends. We often here that the saints were good friends of Jesus. Sometimes we hear about their confessors, their parents, but I never thought that they had real human friends. Therefore, it was wonderful to get to know about the friendship among saints and to realize that holiness can be “contagious.”