Deacon Alex has been a guest on the program before, to talk about how he, as a Pentecostal minister, came into the Catholic Church and brought a significant chunk of
When Marcus Grodi’s family was received into the Church, JonMarc was 6 years old. Growing up around an apostolate designed to help people become Catholic, he found himself surrounded by
George Butterfield was a shy kid who dreaded the coming-of-age public profession of faith that was customary in the country church he attended. It just so happened that when the
In a world where your feelings toward your spouse, your car, your job, and your favorite food can all be described with the word “love,” what are we supposed to
On a recent episode of “Faith With Reasons” on Northwest Ohio’s Annunciation Radio, CHN Director JonMarc Grodi and Seth Paine, our Web Developer were interviewed about the mission of our
Renouncing all our possessions? Hating our mother and father? What does Jesus want from us who are called His disciples? Marcus and Jim look into Christ’s demands in Luke 14.
Being a faithful follower of Christ means being a faithful member of the Family of God. Given the challenging call of Christ “to be perfect as our heavenly Father
Again, following St Paul’s instructions to transform our thinking (Rom 12:1,2), this requires examining our lifestyles down to most simple habits of eating and drinking. The truth is, in many
“Render unto Caesar…” In Romans 12:1-2, St. Paul calls Christians to continue their conversion by transforming their minds—and not conforming to the world, or the culture around them. In chapter
“Mr. Grodi, I have heard you quip many times that when Scripture says (1 Tim 3:15) that the pillar and bulwark of the truth is the Church, Jesus could not have meant the thousands of denominations divided by contrary interpretations of Scripture we now have in our world, for how could an invisible church of faithful believers be the pillar and bulwark of anything?….”
Behind these verses, is St. Paul assumption of the Mystical Body of Christ: through Baptism, believers become united with Christ and one another in the Church.
A priest friend of mine once told me that it was the Resurrection which convinced him of the truth of the Christian and Catholic Faith. He was raised in a