• Son Rise Morning Show 2025.11.12
    Nov 12 2025

    Good morning! On today’s show, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell welcome Dr. Matthew Bunson to share the latest from the U.S. Bishops’ meeting in Baltimore. Other guests include Karlo Broussard from Catholic Answers, and canon lawyer Fr. Philip-Michael Tangorra. Plus news, weather, sports, and more…

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    Come, Holy Spirit

    Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth.

    O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations, Through Christ Our Lord, Amen.

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  • Son Rise Morning Show 2025.11.11
    Nov 11 2025

    Happy feast of St. Martin of Tours! On today’s show, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell welcome Dr. John Pepino to discuss St. Martin and his connection to Veterans Day. Other guests include Steve Ray on rods and staffs in the Bible, and Kris McGregor to reflect on a selection from the Office of Readings. Plus news, weather, sports, and a whole lot more…

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    Collect for the feast of St. Martin of Tours

    O God, who are glorified in the Bishop Saint Martin both by his life and death, make new, we pray, the wonders of your grace in our hearts, that neither death nor life may separate us from your love. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son. who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

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    Neena Gaynor writes at ascensionpress.com.

    Sam Phillips is online at christendom.edu.

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  • Son Rise Morning Show 2025.11.10
    Nov 10 2025

    Happy feast of Pope St. Leo the Great! On today’s show, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell welcome Mike Aquilina to discuss why the first Pope Leo is one of the most impressive figures in all of Church history. Other guests include Fr. John Gavin with more on what the Church Fathers had to say about Christian maturity, and Kevin Schmiesing with This Week in Catholic History. Plus news, weather, sports, and more…

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    Collect for the feast of Pope St. Leo the Great

    O God, who never allow the gates of hell to prevail against your Church, firmly founded on the apostolic rock, grant her, we pray, that through the intercession of Pope Saint Leo, she may stand firm in your truth and know the protection of lasting peace. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

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    Chris Altieri, author of Leo XIV: The New Pope and Catholic Reform

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  • Son Rise Morning Show 2025.11.07
    Nov 7 2025

    Good morning! On today’s show, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell welcome Andrew Petiprin to discuss more reasons why the Church is not an escape from reality. Other guests include Bobby Schindler from the Life and Hope Network, and Fr. Hezekias Carnazzo from the Institute of Catholic Culture and Fr. Jonathan Duncan from the Diocese of Charleston to preview the Sunday Mass readings. Plus all the latest news, weather, sports, and more…

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    Prayer of St. Charles Borromeo

    Almighty God, you have generously made known to man the mysteries of your life through Jesus Christ your Son in the Holy Spirit. Enlighten my mind to know these mysteries which your Church treasures and teaches.

    Move my heart to love them and my will to live in accord with them. Give me the ability to teach this Faith to others without pride, without ostentation, and without personal gain.

    Let me realize that I am simply your instrument for bringing others to the knowledge of the wonderful things you have done for all your creatures. Help me to be faithful to this task that you have entrusted to me. Amen.

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  • Son Rise Morning Show 2025.11.06
    Nov 6 2025

    Good morning! On today’s show, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell welcome pastoral counselor Kevin Prendergast to discuss a Catholic perspective on grief during this month dedicated to the Holy Souls. Other guests include Rita Heikenfeld with a recipe for “eggs in purgatory,” and Courtney Brown from Ruah Woods with more on how Theology of the Body help us understand the difference between humans and artificial intelligence. Plus news, weather, sports, and more…

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    Prayer of St. John Eudes

    O my Lord, what poor use I have made of creatures! Pardon me, O Lord! Henceforth I do not want to use anything unless it is for Your glory and according to Your holy will, as Your Son Jesus did. O my God, if in the past I have turned aside from You who are my Beginning, my End, and my supreme good; if I have turned toward myself and creatures, preferring their will and mine to Yours, I here and now promise to renounce, entirely and forever the world and myself, and to give myself wholly and forever to You. O my God, I give myself to You as my Beginning; take complete possession of me. May I always abide in You! Be the beginning and end of all my actions. O my God, I give myself to You as my End, my Center, my supreme Good. Draw me to You! Make me tend continually toward You. Be my delight, my glory, my treasure, my all!

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    RECIPES FROM RITA: EGGS IN PURGATORY

    (Recipe adapted slightly from Pina Bresciani)

    Ingredients

    • Olive oil
    • 1/2 of a small onion, about 1/4 cup chopped real fine
    • 2 garlic cloves minced – a good 2 teaspoons
    • 14 oz can peeled plum tomatoes
    • ¼ teaspoon chili flakes
    • 1 tablespoon torn basil or 1 teaspoon or so dried
    • 4 eggs
    • A good cup Parmesan, grated and divided
    • Salt and pepper to taste

    Instructions

    • Film a 10-12” skillet with olive oil over medium heat. Once the oil is shimmering, add the onion and sauté until soft but not fully cooked, about 1-2 minutes. Add garlic and chili flakes and continue to sauté until garlic is cooked through, another 1 minute.
    • While onion and garlic are sautéing, pour the tomatoes into a bowl and mash them up with a fork.
    • Once onion and garlic are finished cooking, add canned tomatoes to the skillet. Also rinse out the can of tomatoes, and the bowl where you mashed the tomatoes. Add this tomato water to the sauce (about ½ cup). Season with salt and pepper to taste. Cook the tomato sauce until it has thickened, 10-15 minutes. Add torn basil to sauce and stir.
    • Crack an egg into a small bowl. Form a small well in the sauce and pour the egg into the well. Do this 4 times. Sprinkle the eggs with about half the cheese.Cook the eggs in the tomato sauce, partially covered, until the whites are set, but the yolks still runny, about 5 minutes. Or as firm as you like. We like them firmer.
    • Top the eggs with remaining parmesan cheese, additional pepper and basil if desired.

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  • Son Rise Morning Show 2025.11.05
    Nov 5 2025

    Good morning! On this 5th of November, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell share a Catholic perspective on Guy Fawkes’ Day. Guests include Karlo Broussard from Catholic Answers, canon lawyer Fr. Philip-Michael Tangorra, and Ken Craycraft, author of Citizens Yet Strangers. Plus news, weather, sports, and more…

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    St. Augustine’s Prayer to the Holy Spirit

    Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy. Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy. Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy. Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy. Amen.

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  • Son Rise Morning Show 2025.11.04
    Nov 4 2025

    Happy feast of St. Charles Borromeo! On today’s show, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell welcome Dr. Benjamin Lewis from the International Commission on English in the Liturgy to discuss some of the interesting details behind the translation of the collect prayer for today’s feast. Other guests include Greg Willits to discuss his new book on St. Louis de Montfort’s “Love of Eternal Wisdom,” and Kris McGregor to reflect on a selection from the Office of Readings connected to St. Charles Borromeo. Plus all the latest news, weather, sports, and more…

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    Collect for the Memorial of St. Charles Borromeo

    Preserve in the midst of your people, we ask, O Lord, the spirit with which you filled the Bishop Saint Charles Borromeo, that your Church may be constantly renewed and, by conforming herself to the likeness of Christ, may show his face to the world. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

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    Neena Gaynor writes at ascensionpress.com.

    Greg Willits, author of God Doesn’t Hate Me After All: Discovering Louis de Montfort’s Love of Eternal Wisdom

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  • Son Rise Morning Show 2025.11.03
    Nov 3 2025

    Happy feast of St. Martin de Porres! On today’s show, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell discuss his legacy as one of the first saints from the Americas. Guests include Chris Altieri to discuss his new book on Pope Leo and Church reform, Brendan Hodge on the upcoming USCCB meeting in Baltimore, and Kevin Schmiesing with This Week in Catholic History. Plus news, weather, sports, and more…

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    Collect for the feast of St. Martin de Porres

    O God, who led Saint Martin de Porres by the path of humility to heavenly glory, grant that we may so follow his radiant example in this life as to merit to be exalted with him in heaven. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

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    Chris Altieri, author of Leo XIV: The New Pope and Catholic Reform

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