The Heroic Minute Challenge: Day 11: Mortification, the Heroic Minute and Love

The experience I remember the most from the first time I ran the Heroic Minute Challenge two years ago was the following early morning encounter: Around 5AM, I was awoken by a bright light streaking through the bedroom window, followed by a loud burst of thunder. Not three seconds later, my daughter arrived in our bedroom, accompanied by…

Bored at Mass?

Mark Hart from Ascension Press     Have you heard our recording from Sr. Theresa Noble “From Atheist to Nun”? From Atheist to Nun Have you heard the first episode of The Catholic Man Show? The Ridiculously Miraculous!

The Heroic Minute Challenge: Day 10: Offer it Up

Day 10 of the 14 Day “Heroic Minute” Challenge.  Have you mastered the Heroic Minute?  I surely have not, but I am learning so much during this challenge about myself, about the Lord and also about the value of struggling.St. Josemarie Escriva offers us the following quote to highlight the approach we should take when faced…

The Heroic Minute Challenge: Day 9: St. John Paul II’s Heroic Minute

So far we have talked about Our Lord Jesus’ Heroic Minute, and the Proverbs 31 woman’s Heroic Minute.  Today, I’d like to turn our attention to one of favorite saint’s Heroic Minute: Saint John Paul II. If anyone exemplified living out the Heroic Minute it was JPII. Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, who served as the Pope’s…

From Atheist to Nun

The following is a St. Michael Catholic Radio recording from March 16th, 2016 at Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa, OK. Sr. Theresa Noble, from the Daughters of St. Paul, gives her amazing conversion story, ‘From Atheist to Nun’, and talks about her book, ‘The Prodigal you Love: Inviting Loved Ones Back into the Church’ which…

Luke Spehar: A Catholic Gentleman Exclusive Interview

Luke Spehar is the kind of Catholic Gentleman that makes you feel instantly at home. When I first met him he was unloading music gear out of the back of his family van, wearing weathered blue jeans and looking like he had just spent a day working with reclaimed lumber. I half expected sawdust to…

The Heroic Minute Challenge: Day 6: The Joy Comes With the Morning

I often wonder what it must have been like for the Blessed Mother and the Apostles to wake up on Holy Saturday morning consumed with an overwhelming feeling of loss, hopelessness and fear. What were they thinking that day? How did they even get through it? The shock of all they had witnessed and experienced…

Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble – From Atheist to Nun

Theology Unkegged at the Church of the Madalene in Tulsa, OK on March 17th, 2016. Evangelizing Loved Ones in the Year of Mercy. Permission to air this recording was given to Fr. Bryan Brooks. Pastor of Church of the Madalene. GET SR. THERESA NOBLE’S BOOK, ‘THE PRODIGAL YOU LOVE: INVITING LOVED ONES BACK TO THE…