Good morning! On today’s show, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell welcome Dr. Matthew Bunson to look at Pope Leo’s extraordinary consistory of Cardinals at the Vatican. Other guests include Andrew Petiprin on why Catholicism shouldn’t just be a mere personal preference, and Fr. Hezekias Carnazzo from the Institute of Catholic Culture and Fr. Jonathan Duncan from the Bone Church Revival podcast to preview the Sunday Mass readings. Plus news, weather, sports, and more…

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Newman’s Fragrance Prayer

Dear Jesus, help us to spread your fragrance everywhere we go. Flood our souls with your spirit and life. Penetrate and possess our whole being, so utterly, that our lives may only be a radiance of yours. Shine through us, and be so in us, that every soul we come in contact with may feel your presence in our soul. Let them look up and see no longer us but only Jesus! Stay with us, and then we shall begin to shine as you shine; so to shine as to be a light to others. The light, O Jesus will be all from you. None of it will be ours; it will be you shining on others through us. Let us thus praise you in the way that you love best by shining on those around us. Let us preach you with preaching: not by words but by our example, by the catching force, by sympathetic influence of what we do, the evident fullness of the love our hearts bear to you. Amen.

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Good morning! On today’s show, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell welcome Fr. Robert Nixon, O.S.B., to look at the value of living in Christian community. Other guests include Rita Heikenfeld with Bible Foods, Gary Michuta from Hands On Apologetics, and Dr. John Bergsma on how the prophet Isaiah looks forward to the Baptism of Jesus. Plus news, weather, sports, and more…

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A Prayer for Faithful Citizenship

Gracious and loving God, let your Spirit be with us today. Hear our prayers and increase in us the will to follow your Son Jesus. Help us to draw on the resources of our faith as we use the opportunities of our democracy to shape a society more respectful of the life, dignity, and rights of the human person, especially the poor and vulnerable. We ask this through Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. Amen.

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RECIPES FROM RITA: MARCELLA HAZAN’S TOMATO PASTA SAUCE

Ingredients

1 can, 28 oz. High quality Italian tomatoes in puree

1 medium onion, peeled and cut in half

5-6 tablespoons butter

Salt and pepper (after it cooks)

Instructions

Easy peasy: Put tomatoes, onion and butter in a pan. Bring to a boil, lower to a simmer and cook, stirring and crushing the tomatoes lightly with the back of a spoon occasionally, for about 45 minutes. Remove and discard the onion. Or leave it in like me.

Serve over hot pasta with grated Parmesan cheese.

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Good morning! On today’s show, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell welcome Mike Aquilina to remember the life and witness of Russell Shaw, who passed away this week. Other guests include Gary Zimak on Christ’s words about anxiety in the Sermon on the Mount, and Fr. Philip-Michael Tangorra on the upcoming extraordinary consistory of cardinals called by Pope Leo. Plus news, weather, sports, and more…

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St. John Fisher’s prayer for bishops

Lord, according to Thy promise that the Gospel should be preached throughout the whole world, raise up men fit for such work. The Apostles were but soft and yielding clay till they were baked hard by the fire of the Holy Ghost. So, good Lord, do now in like manner with Thy Church militant, change and make the soft and slippery earth into hard stones. Set in Thy Church strong and mighty pillars that may suffer and endure great labors–watching, poverty, thirst, hunger, cold and heat–which also shall not fear the threatenings of princes, persecution, neither death, but always persuade and think with themselves to suffer with a good will, slanders, shame, and all kinds of torments, for the glory and laud of Thy Holy Name. By this manner, good Lord, the truth of Thy Gospel shall be preached throughout the world. Therefore, merciful Lord, exercise Thy mercy, show it indeed upon Thy Church. Amen.

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Patti Armstrong, co-author of Michelle Duppong: Hope in the Depths of Suffering

Cincinnati Right to Life is online at cincinnatirighttolife.org.

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Good morning! On this 12th Day of Christmas, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell welcome Joseph Pearce to talk about the cultural significance of the Epiphany. Other guests include Steve Ray live from the Holy Land, and Kris McGregor to reflect on the Office of Readings. Plus news, weather, sports, and more…

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From the Epiphany House Blessing

Lord God of heaven and earth,
you revealed your only-begotten Son to every nation
by the guidance of a star.
Bless our homes
and all who inhabit them
Fill us with the light of Christ,
that our concern for others may reflect your love.
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Natasha Goodwin is online at youngcatholicprofessionals.org.

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Happy feast of St. John Neumann! On today’s show, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell discuss his impact of one of the great saints of the Church in the United States. Other guests include Fr. John Gavin on what St. Ambrose had to say about Baptism, 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. John Neumann

O God, who called the Bishop Saint John Neumann, renowned for his charity and pastoral service, to shepherd your people in America, grant by his intercession that, as we foster the Christian education of youth and are strengthened by the witness of brotherly love, we may constantly increase the family of your Church. 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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Austin Habbash and the Summa in a Year podcast can be found on Spotify.

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Good morning! On today’s show, Matt Swaim welcomes Fr. Hezekias Carnazzo and Fr. Jonathan Duncan to preview the Mass readings for the 4th Sunday of Advent. Other guests include Bobby Schindler with the lates on assisted suicide in New York, and Thom Price to give a glimpse of EWTN’s special radio programming for Christmas. Plus news, weather, sports, and more…

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O Radix Jesse

O Root of Jesse’s stem,
sign of God’s love for all his people:
come to save us without delay!

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Good morning! On today’s show, Matt Swaim welcomes Courtney Brown from Ruah Woods to discuss what Christmas has to do with Theology of the Body. Other guests include Rita Heikenfeld with more Bible-themed holiday recipes, and pastoral counselor Kevin Prendergast on making a healthy assessment of your personal successes and shortcomings from the past year. Plus news, weather, sports, and more…

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O Adonai

O Lord of ancient Israel,
who showed yourself to Moses in the burning bush,
who gave him the holy law on Sinai mountain:
Come, stretch out your mighty hand to set us free.

Prayer of St. John of the Cross

O Blessed Jesus,
give me stillness of soul in You.
Let Your mighty calmness reign in me.
Rule me, O King of Gentleness,
King of Peace.

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RECIPES FROM RITA: BOURSIN CHEESE, PISTACHIO AND HOT HONEY APPETIZER

So easy there’s no recipe except for the hot honey!

Just heat to a simmer 1 cup honey with 2 teaspoons or so hot red pepper flakes. Remove from heat, stir in 1 tablespoon cider vinegar. Cool and strain. Now for the app:Just smear a disk of garlic & herb Boursin cheese on a small platter. Sprinkle about 1/2 cup chopped pistachios on top, then drizzle with “hot” honey. Serve with crackers or toasted baguette.

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