Winds of Change Show

Father Anthony with Cristina and Tony, gather to discuss the goings on, and people in the Parish.  Father Anthony is joined by his guest Alice Babij (Bobby) today.  Father greets everyone and mentions that today’s saint is St. Charbel, then leads us in prayer.  After Prayer Father talks about St. Charbel, his life, miracles attributed to him and his increased popularity.  Father discusses the various Christian rights, making clarifications as he goes. After a break, Father welcomes back Alice Babij (Bobby) to continue the discussion on the book introduced last Friday, “The Sword of St. Michael”, by Rev Scott Haynes.  The book explores the mysterious alignment of seven churches across Europe that appear to represent a sword.  The book explores this alignment as it delves into historical details, miracles and spiritual significance of the sanctuaries.  The book is available at priestlypress.com.

 

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Father Anthony with Tony and Cristina gather to discuss the goings on, and people in the Parish. Father opens with discussion about issues or topics that impact our society causing chaos yet we are not addressing or rather not properly addressing it and as such it is not being fixed and the reorder is not possible so we remain in chaos. After a break Father leads us in prayer then moves on to talk about The Trinity. He references and reads from an article, “This Sunday, The Trinity Means We are not the Children of Divorce, by Tom Hoops.  Father elaborates on the significance of the trinity and discusses the article and its reference to divorce, highlighting that God must be the center of all relationships.  Father reminds us that our faith is a commitment and we bear responsibility to carry our crosses and hold firm to the Truth, and we should not allow our religion to be watered down.

 

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Father Koys takes us on another “brain wrinkling” walk as his mind turns to the “Tales of two Williams”.  Father Koys being the history buff that he is takes a deep dive into historical details around events with William Cecil; the powerful, longest serving politician in England and Secretary of State to King Henry VIII & Guillaume (William) de Nogaret; a french statesman, councilor and keeper of the seal to Phillip IV of France.  The tale revolves around these two men serving their respective kings as they battle the Catholic Church to protect their kings’ rights.  As Father Koys dives into and shares details and short stories about their battles and approaches, he highlights how one fought the church within the framework of Catholicism to achieve his goals while not destroying the church, while the other fought to reform the church at all cost with no care for its framework or boundaries.

 

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Father Anthony with Cristina and Tony regroup today after the weekend to discuss the goings on, and people in the Parish.  Father greets everyone and chats a bit about his contemplating whether he is too negative, whether he offers light and hope as he is called to do.  While he speaks truth and does not sugarcoat things, he recognizes that he needs to offer hope and welcomes critique or reprimand as priest are not above it. The trio discusses the reality of speaking truth and how the vast majority of people do not want to hear truth and would rather be blissfully ignorant.  After prayer, Father focuses on the reading from Sunday from the Gospel of Matthew. He speaks to Jesus’ explanation of the parable and unpacks it.  Father shares quotes from past popes and addresses how prophetic they are and how some of them had direct impact to him and his journey.  Father points out that we would be wise to stay focused on prayer and pray incessantly praying the Jesus prayer which is taken right out of scripture.  He states how he truly wants to be a saint, how he wants for us, through him, to come to Christ.

 

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It’s Monday and Lauretta has her mind on all sorts of things this summer. She gives a shout out of congratulations to the Vance family on the new addition to their family, baby boy Alec.  She asks the prayer warriors to lift up the recently killed service members and their families and reminds all the prayer warriors to keep at it as the world needs peace. Lauretta could not do the show today without mentioning the World Cup-what excitement, the game, the players, the coaches, the fans and the delight of foreigners reveling in the USA!  While promoting summer fun and relaxation to all, Lauretta discusses her summer trip to Rome, her love of the beach and pool and her summer reading.  She makes it a point to promote reading over the summer as she encourages you to include reading selections that break out the scriptures in such a way to promote a stronger relationship with God.  Lauretta then takes a look at the Saints of this week, the beauty of their lives and contributions. She ends announcing the upcoming Encounter Retreat-Summer Intensive on August 6^th-8^th at St. James Catholic Church in Arlington Heights. For more information visit their website at encounterschool.org.

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Father Anthony with Cristina and Tony, gather to discuss the goings on, and people in the Parish.  Father Anthony is joined by his guest Alice Babij (Bobby) today.  Father greets everyone and they briefly chat about the current conditions with the air quality being impacted by fires and then he mentions his renewed focus on the church now that the school has closed.  After prayer, Father continues his discussion from yesterday focusing on discipleship bringing Alice into that discussion.  He calls on us to consider how we navigate living our faith in these diabolical times.  For us to consider how we really become disciples-do we actually consider ourselves disciples while reminding us that we are disciples by nature of our baptism.  After a break, Father welcomes back Alice Babij (Bobby) who introduces the book “The Sword of St. Michael”, by Rev Scott Haynes.  The book explores the mysterious alignment of seven churches across Europe that appear to represent a sword.  The book explores this alignment as it delves into historical details, miracles and spiritual significance of the sanctuaries.  The book is available at priestlypress.com.

 

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Father Anthony with Tony and Cristina gather to discuss the goings on, and people in the Parish. Father greets everyone and chats about the current state of things asking us “do we think ourselves disciples?”  This leads the trio to discuss discipleship, what it is and how we foster our relationship with God.  The group shares key events and people that contributed to their faith formation. Specifically pointing to key people that made significant impact and guided their journey to Jesus.  Father entertains the discussion on how to come to faith through discipleship and touches on Catholic “culturism” and its impact on the current state of the church.

 

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Father Koys takes us on another “brain wrinkling” walk as he tackles feminism in Christianity.  He welcomes author Carrie Gress to discuss her book on the topic titled “Something Wicked: Why Feminism Can’t Be fused with Christianity”.  Together they tackle the topic and highlight some of the points made in the book. They touch on the seven elements of feminism and the creation of a shadow church as feminism seems to act as a religion of its own. Father Koys and St James at Sag Bridge will host a talk by Carrie Gress on July 18, 2026.  For more information, please visit their website at historicstjames.org.

 

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Father Anthony with Cristina and Tony regroup today after the weekend to discuss the goings on, and people in the Parish.  Father greets everyone and chats a bit about his past week and the feeling of being just being overly tired and hot, mentioning that he felt some frustration with not finding the rest he was looking for during his recent private retreat.  After prayer, he discusses the Saint of the Day, St. Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American to be canonized.  He shares details of her life and how she dedicated her life to Jesus being committed to living a pure and prayerful life, reminding us that we should all be receptive to the inner workings of God’s spirit, mindful that this will lead us to the inner peace we yearn.  Father connects this to the past Sunday’s reading that clearly references suffering and groaning.  The trio discusses suffering and acknowledges that all suffer and no one escapes it and all groan about their sufferings.  Father points out that inner peace and joy may still exists while we suffer and groan but to recall that Jesus never promised us happiness and that we should choose internal joy over fleeting happiness.     

 

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It’s Monday and Lauretta has as her guest, Dr. John Gresham, a renowned theology instructor and key figure in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. He serves as a course instructor for the Renewal Leadership Program and serves on the board of Pentecost Today USA.  Today he joins Lauretta to discuss the Renewal Leadership Programs sharing what the program offers, the time commitment, the instructors and leaders involved as well as describing the process of getting involved and accepted into the program.  Lauretta inquires as to how Dr. Gresham got involved with the Holy Spirit and its impact on his life and his teachings.  Dr. Gresham shares how he was touched by the Lord and impacted by the Holy Spirit and how it all led to his work as he shares the gifts with others through his ongoing teaching despite being retired.  He is thrilled to offer his knowledge and honoring God through this work.  He also discusses his role as a spiritual director, what that entails and how one can go about finding a spiritual director.  Lauretta wraps up the program asking Dr. Gresham to describe the practical requirements of the program: classes, readings, papers, and test requirements.  Dr. Gresham ends with words of prayer for all calling on the Lord to offer words of wisdom and guidance to listeners that may be called to this program and a life in Christ in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. To learn more about the Renewal Leadership Program visit their website at PentecostTodayUSA.org or call them at 1-800- 338-2445.

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