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Father Anthony seeks to bring the true Catholic faith into hearts through his words and experiences. The Show points to the negative trends of today’s culture in our world and takes notice.
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Friday Sep 19, 2025
Friday Sep 19, 2025
Father Anthony with Tony, and Cristina gather to discuss the goings on, and people in the Parish. Father Anthony refers to the morning school mass and the large number of older persons present as he celebrated Grandparents Day today at mass (celebrated on September 13th in the US). The group chats about grandparents and the crucial role they play in our lives both American and Polish traditions. Father did take the opportunity to remind the students to step away from social media in order to spend time with their grandparents. After prayer, Father speaks regarding the celebration of the Lady of Sorrows which was observed on September 15th. He questions Cristina and finally, Tony too, regarding what are the 7 sorrows our Lady suffered.
Thursday Sep 18, 2025
Thursday Sep 18, 2025
Fr. Anthony, Tony, and Cristina talk about the goings on, and people in the Parish. Father Anthony focuses on speaking of the church and the Messianic hour. He speaks of the past and of how we’ve come to today regarding the mass, the parts, and how they come together and how we can actively participate to glorify God where we take the focus away from ourselves. We come to mass to honor and praise Him, to receive Him and offer thanks. After the break father shares the words of St. Cornelius and St. Cyprian, who’s feast day was celebrated on Sept.16th.
Wednesday Sep 17, 2025
Wednesday Sep 17, 2025
Welcome to a Brain Wrinkling Wednesday with Fr. Tom Koys. Today Father open with reflection on what has happened over the last week with so much going on in the world. He focuses on speaking about optimism and pessimism in Catholicism. He uses Narnia to help offer insight on how to be optimistic as a Christian in a world in a time when a lot of negative, pessimistic stuff is going on. To be optimistic is not really the virtue of Christian Hope, because Christian Hope includes hope in a power above and beyond us. That’s why we can never deny the cross, never make fun of it as many people are carrying the cross. The spirit of always being upbeat and happy at Catholic mass doesn’t seem to fit because part of the mass is to give us the supernatural hope of God’s ability to conquer the problem and walking with us in our sorrows.
Tuesday Sep 16, 2025
Tuesday Sep 16, 2025
Father Anthony with Tony and Cristina gather to discuss the goings on, and people in the Parish. We begin the show with Spiritual “warfare” as Father Anthony’s mic was just not functioning. Father relocated to a different mic and prayed while we worked on technical difficulties-finally resolving towards end of prayer. Amen!! After break we regroup and start anew, Father discusses a few articles that have been written after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. One article in particular addresses a noticeable increase in church attendance. Another addresses the urgent need to reject relativism-Father was just speaking to this last week Friday, how timely he is. The group goes ahead and chats regarding these topics, always coming back to God is needed, He is the center and prayer is key!
Monday Sep 15, 2025
Monday Sep 15, 2025
Lauretta hosts the program today and shares that today is the Feast of Our Mother of Sorrow and that Pope Leo XIV celebrated his 70th Birthday yesterday. After speaking to the happenings over the last week, she welcomes her guest host Joyce Duriga, Editor of the Chicago Catholic, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Chicago. In this episode as cohosts, they discuss events happening around the Archdiocese. Joyce chats about a writers retreat that she attended and then shares details/connections to the Canonization of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati which were canonized this month. There’s hope that these young saints can inspire the youth. Lauretta renews her invitation to seek out Encounter Ministry to renew, revive and grow in your relationship with Jesus. You can go to the website at encounterschool.org/Chicago for more information and to register.
Friday Sep 12, 2025
Friday Sep 12, 2025
Fr. Anthony, Tony, and Cristina talk about the goings on, and people in the Parish. Father Anthony opens with prayer after much focus yesterday on the tragic death of Charlie Kirk, Conservative Activist and Co-Founder of Turning Point USA (Conservative Advocacy Group). After prayer, Father Anthony talks about -ism’s: subjectivism, relativism, and hedonism and offers the opinion that these -ism’s are destroying our country, as they speak counter to the gospel. These -ism’s keep us from living a God-centered life. We need to move away from these -ism’s that tend to feed individualism and breed narcissism which draw us away from God and faith. Let us not get angered by this shooting but turn to prayer and focus on God that He may become our center once again.
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
Thursday Sep 11, 2025
Fr. Anthony, Tony, and Cristina talk about the goings on, and people in the Parish. Father Anthony focuses on the tragic death of Charlie Kirk, Conservative Activist and Co-Founder of Turning Point USA (Conservative Advocacy Group). He was shot dead at a Turning Point USA event taking place at the Utah Valley University. Father shared about his life and his work praising his courage and ability to reach today’s youth. Father speaks to the chaos and to the senseless loss of life, as we remember 9/11 and asks: What do we do? What needs to change?
Wednesday Sep 10, 2025
Wednesday Sep 10, 2025
Welcome to a Brain Wrinkling Wednesday with Fr. Tom Koys. Today Father Koys returns to WOC Live Podcast. He was traveling on pilgrimage to Medjugorje and Rome. He focuses on speaking about these events and the thoughts and insights that were encouraged by his experiences. He also chats and makes connections to a book he is currently reading on Sister Mary Grata as we get back to his brain wrinkling Wednesdays.
Tuesday Sep 09, 2025
Tuesday Sep 09, 2025
Father Anthony with Tony and Cristina gather to discuss the goings on, and people in the Parish. Father makes the shift to the podcast after just celebrating a funeral this morning. Talking about funerals, as they were in the past, leads them to step back in time and chat about how things were in the past while acknowledging that even then God was demanding. Father Anthony points out that the greatest threat to us, the church, and the future of our humanity is our unwillingness to embrace the discipline of our faith. He calls us to be humble and accept our cross and carry it as we honor the Commandments.
Monday Sep 08, 2025
Monday Sep 08, 2025
Lauretta hosts the program today and shares that it is the Blessed Mother’s Birthday. She thanks the prayer warriors and recaps the shooting Annunciation a week ago and offers up prayers for all impacted. Lauretta then welcomes her guest, Dr. Mary Amore, Director of Mayslake Ministries. Mayslake Ministries is a sacred center for spiritual direction, pastoral counseling, and spiritual formation serving adult Catholic Christian men and women who seek to deepen their walk with Christ. They have an upcoming event; A Joyful Evening of Conversation with Fr. Tony Pizzo offering reflections and personal stories about Pope Leo on Friday, September 26th at 7:00p.m. To learn more about their organization, program and events please go to their website at mayslakeministries.org. You can also reach them by phone at 630-841-9000.