by Steve Ray on February 23, 2011
In honor of the Feast Day of the Great Bishop and Saint Polycarp on February 23, we are doing special shows with Drew Mariani on Relevant Radio. The name Polycarp sounds funny to our English ears, but in Greek it comes from two words “poly” meaning many or much, and “carp” meaning fruit. Obviously his [...]
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by Steve Ray on January 26, 2011
George Weigel, the biographer of Pope John Paul II, has agree to speak to our pilgrimage in Rome. We arrive in Rome to share in the historical event of the Beatification of Pope John Paul II – AND YOU CAN BE THERE! JOIN US — hear George Weigel, experience the Beatification, tour Rome, visit Assisi, [...]
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by Steve Ray on January 14, 2011
Benedict XVI is planning to preside over the beatification rite for John Paul II on May 1, Divine Mercy Sunday, in the Vatican. A communiqué from the Congregation for Saints’ Causes announced that today the Pope, in an audience with the congregation’s prefect, Cardinal Angelo Amato, “authorized the dicastery to promulgate the decree of the [...]
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by Steve Ray on November 21, 2010
In the morning (and replayed twice during the day) I will be on Relevant Radio’s Sean Herriott’s show at 7:00 AM Eastern to discuss We will discuss Peter and Paul since Nov. 18 is the Feast Day of the Dedication of the Basilicas of Sts. Peter and Paul in Rome (where I was two days [...]
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by Steve Ray on November 19, 2010
Since we are in Rome, I thought I would share a short biography I made on the fly of St. Paul at Tre Fontone where St. Paul was beheaded. This will give you a short introduction to St. Paul and his life from the very place where he was beheaded. Free Timeline of the Life [...]
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by Steve Ray on November 7, 2010
The following is a link to videos of all of the talks from the Totus Tuus 2010 Family Conference that centered on St. Joseph. Enjoy the talks. One of the attendees said, “The speakers brought out a lot of good insights into St. Joseph that I had never heard before, and all of the videos [...]
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by Steve Ray on October 31, 2010
Tomorrow I will join Sean Herriott to discuss the early saints — how they lived and how they died and why we call them saints. You can listen live at www.RelevantRadio.com from 7:00 – 8:00 AM Eastern time. I will specifically discussing the Apostolic Fathers. You can purchase my DVD on the Apostolic Fathers filmed [...]
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by Steve Ray on October 25, 2010
Today we will visit the House of the Holy Family under the Church of St. Joseph in Nazareth. Here I will give my short talk “A Day in the Life of the Holy Family — telling about the quiet, strong hero and father of Jesus. Father of Jesus? Yes, it is correct to call him [...]
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by Steve Ray on September 8, 2010
Studying Scripture like this is one of my favorite things to do in the whold world. Nice little tidbits pop out, like the one I found yesterday. When God said to Abraham: ”Take Isaac, your only son, the one whom you love, and offer him up on a mountain which I will show you,” he did not give [...]
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by Steve Ray on September 7, 2010
How many of you have a scroll on your desk entitled The Protoevangelium of James? You don’t! Why not? If you were a Christian in the first centuries of the Church you would probably have a copy, or had read it — or rather, had it read to you. The Protoevangelium of James is the [...]
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by Steve Ray on August 4, 2010
What a day in London! 2.5 hour bus tour of London, fish and chips and bitter in an English pub, then a tour of the Tower of London where we were specially allowed into the Bell Tower where St. Thomas More was imprisoned, the spot where he was executed and the crypt where he was [...]
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by Steve Ray on August 4, 2010
What a day in London! 2.5 hour bus tour of London, fish and chips and bitter in an English pub, then a tour of the Tower of London where we were specially allowed into the Bell Tower where St. Thomas More was imprisoned, the spot where he was executed and the crypt where he was [...]
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by Steve Ray on July 26, 2010
In the early 2nd century the early Church held a document in very high regard. From this document we learn about the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary and her own birth. Since today is the Feast Day of Joachim and Anna, I thought I would provide a link to the Protoevangelium of James so [...]
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by Steve Ray on June 22, 2010
Today they were all here and we jumped on the golf cart (the six that can hang on by themselves) and off we went through the country roads for an adventure. In the picture you can see Dominic holding the snake we caught. He was the Keeper of the Snake. Damian was the noble “Keeper [...]
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by Steve Ray on June 1, 2010
Feast Day of St. Justin Martyr, June 1 As promised to listeners of Sean Herriott’s Morning Air on Relevant Radio Download a Free copy of the Apostolic Fathers Timeline This amazing Timeline drives home the point of how close these men were to Jesus and the Apostles. It demonstrates how Catholic the first Christians really [...]
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by Steve Ray on May 18, 2010
(Picture: My favorite picture of St. Joseph by Tissott) My article a while ago in THIS ROCK Magazine is entitled Should We Call Joseph the Father of Jesus? It starts out with three options: Joseph was possibly the biological father of Jesus, but the Gospels deny the fact, claiming he was the product of a [...]
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