Author Archives: Deacon Tom

Catholic Vitamin S Support

Posted on July 14, 2013 by Deacon Tom

Talk about Catholic Vitamin S for SUPPORT! Meet Michelle Grunkemeyer. And her husband. And her nine children 🙂 Michelle is an on-fire revert to Catholicism who also started a website to help stay-at-home moms (and dads) with home schooling …

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Catholic Vitamin R Repeat Blog

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Deacon Tom

One of the joys of my REPEAT visits to Franciscan University is the ease of access to some of the heavy-weights of the Catholic Church and in evangelization in these times. I won’t… but I could do some name-dropping and …

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Catholic Vitamin R Repeat

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Deacon Tom

Find something that helps. Find something that lifts you in your faith. Then REPEAT. One of our mini-interview guests is Dr. Ralph Martin, President of Renewal Ministries – the good folks dedicated to fostering renewal and evangelization in …

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Catholic Vitamin Q Quantity

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Deacon Tom

Is it our recent trip to Ireland? Is it Tom’s celebration of another year as an ordained deacon? Is it a return to Franciscan University and hours spent with Dr. Scott Hahn, Dr. John Bergsma, Kimberly Hahn… and more? …

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Catholic Vitamin P: POSTULANT Blog Post

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Deacon Tom

This is the beautiful Christ the King Chapel of the Franciscan Sisters TOR of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother. The order is located in Toronto, Ohio, not far from Franciscan University (where the sisters do campus Ministry) and the …

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Catholic Vitamin P Postulant

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Deacon Tom

Her name is Jenny Lynn; she’s a POSTULANT with the Franciscan Sisters, TOR located in Toronto, OH. Join us for this tender sharing about a call to vocation initially discovered by Jenny losing car keys three times. Someone in …

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Catholic Vitamin O Offering

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Deacon Tom

She is a host on EWTN; she’s a popular author, blogger and speaker — and yet, what DONNA MARIE COOPER-OBOYLE makes very clear is she has been and is a wife and hands-on mother. We were blessed to have her …

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Catholic Vitamins M and N Blog for Mysticism and NFP

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Deacon Tom

Well, this would be called something like: the deacon is trying to juggle too many balls in the air, coupled with getting ready for international travel — the Emerald Isle, and the roots of both sides of my heritage.

At …

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Catholic Vitamin N NFP

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Deacon Tom

Meet two of the loveliest, most on-fire disciples for Natural Family Planning. They are Katie Merando Falk (shown here with the ‘other guy’ in her life) from Kansas, and Kayla Peterson from North Carolina. Katie and Kayla met on-line, …

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Catholic Vitamin M Mysticism

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Deacon Tom

Meet our guest FRANK WEATHERS. Like others before him, he started studying the Catholic Church to try to find ways to convince his Catholic wife (and himself) to go to some other faith. Instead – Frank found Truth, beauty, reasons …

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