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A few years ago Jennifer and I recorded an audio version of the Stations of the Cross based on those celebrated by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday 1991.

As we launch into another Lent, we invite you to download and pray along with these stations of the cross.  Here’s the link: Stations of the Cross

Also, if you’re looking for additional audio reflections and talks for Lent, here are a few more we’ve produced over the years that you may have missed:

Downloadable Audio Rosaries can be found here

Audio Talk: Be An Apologist!

Audio Talk: Prayer in Relationships

Total Consecration Podcast (all the prayers for St. Louis de Montfort’s Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary)

If you’d like to invite us to give a talk to your parish or group, be sure to check out our contact info on this link.  Though it’s usually just me that travels to give talks, sometimes both Jennifer and I are able to travel together to give combined talks, as well.

I’m a doodler. Always have been and always will be.
Sometimes during the broadcast each day, I draw things that I don’t even remember drawing.

I’ve had teachers in the past who were amused by my drawing during class and others who would be driven crazy by it.

I’ve always found that in some situations, doodling helps me to concentrate.

During today’s show, I suddenly realized I was drawing Jennifer. By the end of the show, I was done.

Not a spot on drawing, but if our lives were cartoons, I imagine Jennifer would look like this.

Click through to see the drawing next to the model. 🙂

Listener Tiffany in Vermont suggested we set up a Facebook group for listeners of the show (and anyone else who wants to join in), so we did!

If you’re on Facebook, we’d love to have you join in the fun.

Click here to jump over to the new Facebook Group for The Catholics Next Door!

And while at your at it, here’s a link to our Facebook profiles:
Greg’s Facebook Profile
Jennifer’s Facebook Profile

I gotta say, we have an awesome crew for The Catholics Next Door, our show on The Catholic Channel.

With today being our last show until the day after Christmas, we’re all in a festive mood, including Jackie (our board operator) and Adam (our producer) up in New York.

They are SO festive, in fact, that they decided to spread the cheer by wrapping the desk that belongs to Jared, the producer on Lino Rulli’s The Catholic Guy (4PM EST M-F).

Now at first, my initial reaction was fear of retribution from Rulli. After all, Gus Lloyd (Seize the Day, 6-10AM EST M-F) recently wrote a parody song about Lino, and Lino retaliated with an entire ALBUM of songs poking fun at Gus.

But then I realized this desk belonged to the same guy that Lino loves to pick on during his show each day, so in fact, The Catholics Next Door were doing him a favor.

Glad to be of service, Lino. I just wish we’d been in the New York studio to wrap the stapler

Below is the final masterpiece.

Merry Christmas, Jarred!

Once I made the discovery that Greg never had eggnog, I knew I had to take advantage of this opportunity. What a perfect time to taste it live on the air.  I made sure he was good and ready.  He knew the history, the flavor choices, etc.

Here Greg is about to taste his very first sip of eggnog (non-alcoholic) live on the air.

A big thank you to Greg for being a good sport over the whole thing and for giving me a hearty laugh and a great photo op. I’ll need to come up with other live food and drink taste testings for him :).

We did learn that Jody, our dog, had no problem finishing off Greg’s unwanted beverage.

We’ve been giving away Rosaries lately compliments of our producer Adam Hamway, who went to Syria for a couple of weeks back in October, and brought back a bunch of Rosaries for us to give away on The Catholics Next Door.

If you’ve been fortunate enough to win one of those Rosaries, here’s Adam (on the left) outside the store where he bought them.

Its a little shop in Aleppo, Syria that makes all the crafts sold in churches in Aleppo. They are moving to Damascus soon for better business. So these Rosaries are collectors items!

Even though Adam abandoned us for two weeks to traipse around the middle east, we appreciate the Rosaries.

🙂

I took this photo of Greg while he was checking his iPhone email while laying down.  We WERE having a conversation.  In fact, I just asked if he could help me out and feed our youngest son.  I couldn’t help but notice his amazing ability to remain almost frozen in this exact position for several minutes.  And then I looked even closer and noticed his eyes.  

In all my years of seeing him sleep, I’ve never found him in this position before.  So, just to make things a little fun, I thought I would open this photo up for a caption contest.  So if you desire, go ahead and leave your caption blurbs in our comment section of this post!

Father Frank Pavone from Priests for Life was on the program today and encouraged everyone to already start contacting your local representatives to tell them you do not want them supporting FOCA. The louder people are against this bill before it is even introduced, the better the chance it’ll show up D.O.A.

If you don’t know how to find your local representatives, check out the Priests For Life website here.

And yesterday Joe Campo from Grassroots Films stopped by. Be sure to check out the trailer for their new film, The Human Experience, as well as their other films!

Here’s the video we talked about on today’s program. If you have questions about Reconciliation, be sure to check out the Catechism starting with paragraph 1422.

After a roaring debut on today’s edition of The Catholics Next Door, the brand new band Venezuelan Ministry of Defense has recorded two different versions of their title song from their new CD, And Wealthy And Dead.

We hope you enjoy them.

If you do a cover for YOUR band name, here are the rules:

1. You must mention the name of your CD in the song
2. You must use the secret words of either antelope or cantelope
3. There must be some sort of Catholic message in your song.

If you record one, send it to us at [email protected] and we’ll play your tune on the air!