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As we’re midway through the Lenten season, our hosts Marianela Nunez and Mike Walsh thought it was a good time to see how religion classes are experiencing Lent during the school day. They chat with two great religion teachers in South Jersey Catholic Schools, Jeana Davi from Saint Mary’s Catholic School in Williamstown, NJ, and Ashlei Wyant from Assumption Regional Catholic School in Galloway, NJ. The duo discuss how they teach elementary school students, both little and big, about our faith using very tactile tools that helps students more easily understand Catholicism, and specially, Lent. It’s a great conversation with a ton of useful tips for parents and teachers alike.

To learn about South Jersey Catholic Schools, check out https://southjerseycatholicschools.org.

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After a two-year hiatus, our favorite outdoor event on the Diocese of Camden’s calendar is back, iRace4Vocations! The annual faithraiser dedicated to supporting vocations to the priesthood and religious life returns on April 3 at Cooper River Park in Pennsauken. The event features an outdoor Mass with Bishop Dennis Sullivan and our seminarians, a sanctioned 5K run, a 1 mile walk, fun, games and food - all for FREE! Joining us to chat about the event, and the impact it had on his own vocation journey, is Fr. Adam Cichoski, Director of Vocations of the Diocese of Camden. Our hosts Jen Mauro and Mike Walsh grill Fr. Adam about what participants can expect and why the event is so important to current and future seminarians.

Fr. Adam invites everyone who wishes to attend this free event to register soon (and you get a free iRace4Vocations t-shirt if you do) at https://camdenpriest.org/irace4vocations/

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We continue our religious communities series this week with a chat about the Vincentian Congregation, a clerical society in the Syro-Malabar Church based in India with a direct lineage to the Vincentians of France founded by Saint Vincent de Paul in 1624. The Catholic faith in India can be tracked by to the Apostle Thomas who visited in 54 AD. Joining us today to talk about their community is Fr. Sanjai Devis, VC; Fr. Shaji Muttathottil, VC; and Fr. Naveen Borlakunta, VC. The trio, who now call Our Lady of Peace Parish in Williamstown, NJ, their home - where Fr. Devis serves as pastor - chat with us about their community, each of their vocation paths, the Catholic faith in India, and how they have served the Church throughout their ministry. Our hosts Kari Janisse and Mike Walsh came away truly enlightened, and we think you will, too.

To learn more about the Vincentian Congregation, check out: http://vincentiancongregation.org/

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As Lent begins this week, our co-hosts Jen Mauro and Mike Walsh wanted to help everyone get into the spirit of the season so they invited on to the show Fr. Ed Kolla, retired priest and regular contributor to the Catholic Star Herald newspaper, and Donna Ottaviano-Britt, head of the Diocese of Camden’s Secretariat for Pastoral Outreach. The group chat about the uniqueness of Ash Wednesday and the three pillars of the Lenten season - sacrifice, prayer, alms giving - and the many forms those can take.

Fr. Kolla’s GREAT columns can be found here: https://catholicstarherald.org/author/father-edward-kolla/

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It’s a hosts-only episode this week, and Mike Walsh was surprised to learn it’s the 5th anniversary of the podcast! He and Jen Mauro chat a little about the history of the show and some news items from the week, including two New Jersey Catholic Conference legislative alerts, a Knights of Columbus team-up to help tornado victims in Kentucky and a Synod and Eucharistic Revival update. As for the 5th anniversary, we promise to do something nice for it in the near future, maybe even our first live audience show since the 100th episode!

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Much to our co-host Mike Walsh’s surprise, it’s Catholic Press Month! His far wiser co-host Jen Mauro set him straight and the two brought together a legendary grouping of Catholic journalists to chat about the vocation.

Joining us today is J.D. Long-Garcia, a senior editor at America Magazine (and past-president of the Catholic Media Association); Matthew Gambino, director & general manager of Catholic Philly; and out own Catholic Star Herald staff writer (and multi-award winning podcaster) Peter Sanchez. The crew chat about their various routes to the Catholic journalist profession, the changes they’ve seen in this media space, and their dedication to telling the Catholic truth, despite the difficulties it can cause.

To read more from J.D., go to: https://www.americamagazine.org/voices/jd-long-garcia

To read more from Matt, go to: https://catholicphilly.com/

To read more from Pete, go to: https://catholicstarherald.org/author/peter/

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On today’s Talking Saints, hosts Laurie and Pete share the buzz on Saint Abigail, patron saint of honeybees and beekeepers.  This medieval Irish saint from County Clare, Ireland, also known as Saint Gobnait, left her domestic family to find a home serving God and his people.  In this episode, learn more about this saint’s literal path to holiness, and the glory of living a life worthy of eternity.

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This week we continue our occasional series on women religious by chatting with Sister Stacie Marie Gagnon of the Franciscan Missionaries of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We chat with her about her own vocation calling and the unique twists and turns it took, including long stints in Europe, the Middle East and China, before returning stateside for the moment as she’s teaching fifth-graders in Saint Michael the Archangel Regional School in Clayton, NJ. She left our hosts Kari Janisse and Mike Walsh speechless more than once with her vocation story :)

Sister Stacie has been featured in a few of our sister outlets recently, too, in print and on YouTube:

Catholic Star Herald newspaper: https://catholicstarherald.org/communicating-the-gospel-through-consecrated-life/

Youth Ministry Insights show: https://talking.catholicstarherald.org/podcast/youth-ministry-insights-sharing-vocation-stories/

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It’s one of our favorite weeks of the year, Catholic Schools Week, where we take a few days to revel in the Catholic school experience and encourage families to consider a Catholic school education for their children. Our hosts Marianela Nunez and Mike Walsh are joined by three great Catholic elementary school principals: Patti Paulsen of Holy Angels School in Woodbury, Sr. Michele DeGregorio of St. Margaret’s School in Woodbury Heights, and Kathy O’Callaghan of St. Peter’s School in Merchantville. The group discusses wha makes a Catholic education the gift of a lifetime and why they have chosen to remain in Catholic education for so long.

To learn more about South Jersey Catholic Schools check out: https://southjerseycatholicschools.org.

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The parish level portion of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops has completed in the Diocese of Camden, so we invited the co-chair of the diocesan efforts, Donna Ottaviano-Britt, on to the show to discuss the process so far, what the plan is for the spring, and what she would advise other dioceses who are still working through the parish process. It’s a very informative chat with our hosts Jen Mauro and Mike Walsh.

[Producer’s note: Mike referenced in the episode the parish document they are beginning the review phase for, sadly he was wrong when he said it was 12,000 words long. It’s actually 120,000 words long!)

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