Category Archives: Blog

Catholic Vitamin P: Pride

Pride is almost always presented in a negative construct. In fact, there are a significant number of (mis-led) people in our country who believe it’s wrong to have PRIDE IN AMERICA. We think that’s so wrong. And similarly, we …

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Catholic Vitamin O: Orans

Orans – a prayer posture is often seen on early paintings and images from Christian antiquity. As you will see below, icons (some in the Orans posture) adorned the catacombs. And not just prayer positions, but iconic paintings  and images …

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Catholic Vitamin N: Narthex

As a lay person in the pews (e. g. before entering deacon formation), from time to time — maybe once a year, a priest would be preaching a homily or doing fund raising and he would use words like ‘narthex’ …

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Catholic Vitamin M: Mercy

MEET OUR GUEST: DAVID (DAVE) CORDARO

Longtime listeners to Catholic Vitamins will recognize that we search in a variety of places and ways for our guests and topics. You’ve heard us say that faith-building stories are often found in the …

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Catholic Vitamin L: Learning

Our special guest this weekend is Judy Zarick from American Catholic Radio. She is a personality in her own right – but on the segment that she produces and hosts (LIVING FAITH), Judy helps thousands of us to ‘meet’ …

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Catholic Vitamin K: Knots

Dear Friends of Catholic Vitamins. What great joy to introduce and share with you the SERVANTS OF THE PIERCED HEARTS OR JESUS AND MARY, also known and referred to Pierced Hearts Organization.

On our show for this weekend, we had …

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Catholic Vitamin J: Jubilee

Greetings once again. This week’s podcast and faith topic is Catholic Vitamin J for Jubilee. The dictionary on my (Mac) computer has this for the first two definitions of the word Jubilee: 

a special anniversary of an event, esp.

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Catholic Vitamin I: Ignition

Okay – as connected with the internet and lots of people as we are, we weren’t at all familiar with Ed Vizenor. Justin Stroh (our regular correspondent on all things New Evangelization) proposed Ed for the I faith vitamin: IGNITION. …

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Catholic Vitamin H: Herald

Hi everyone. Tom and Dee are in God’s Country: AKA: Estes Park, Colorado. We lived here for something less than ten years – the longest we every lived in any community. It is one of the world’s testaments to …

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Catholic Vitamin G: Gratitude

We shouldn’t toot our own horn. But no one is more surprised that we’ve made it to three years with our ministry effort we prayerfully decided to call CATHOLIC VITAMINS. Three years and 150 shows – with guests that …

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