Plus: Our Lady’s Powerful Intercession and Protection and a Sermon by Father Brian O’Hanlon.

In this episode, Antony Barone Kolenc speaks with blogger and book reviewer Steven McEvoy about the importance of book clubs for teens, and we review How to Get Better Grades and Have More Fun, by Stephen Douglass.

Peter talks about the passage in Mark where the scribe complements Christ on his answer concerning the 1st Commandment.

Audio from the video produced by the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, courtesy of Father Elias Mills, who had the added grace and privilege of being able to visit Sister Agnes Sasagawa and speak with her while leading a pilgrimage to Japan in April of this year. Plus: music by John McDermott Seibo Maria Mission […]

Underneath my 1974 high school senior yearbook photo I wrote the following caption, “Fear is the enemy, trust is the armor!”, after hearing that expression by Shaolin Temple Master Po to his student Kwai Chang Caine during an episode of the popular television series “Kung Fu.” My photo is very forgettable, but that phrase has stayed with me for almost fifty years. I loved that program, as I had great interest in martial arts and the Eastern philosophy behind it. Only one other phrase from that program has stayed with me all those years, that one spoken by Master Kan to the same young Caine: “Sometimes a stranger known to us for a moment can spark our souls to kinship for eternity.”