Catholic Connection – May 1, 2023 – Hr 2

Author: Andrew Kruczek Published on: May 1, 2023 Published in: Audio Archive

Mary Pat Jahner talks about the St. Gianna and Pietro Molla Home in North Dakota. Jesse Ray explains the work of Inheritance Pilgrimages. Gail Buckley Barringer has our Bible verse of the week.

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Segment 1 – Intro and News

Segment 2 & 3 – St. Gianna and Pietro Molla Home
“For the past 18 years, Mary Pat has welcomed expecting mothers and their children to her maternity home in North Dakota, offering them a supportive second family, along with every possible resource they might need to rebuild their lives. Since opening its doors, her home has welcomed over 300 women and children, and paved the way for over 20 adoptions. Mary Pat herself is the proud adoptive mother of a beautiful daughter. The home has a powerful intercessor in St. Gianna Molla, who is the patron of mothers and the unborn. Not only that – as a powerful testament to the home’s profound impact, the daughter that St. Gianna died to save, Gianna Emmanuela Molla, is a frequent visitor to the home dedicated to her saintly mother.”

Mary Pat Jahner was a teacher with a vision who, with help from Catholic church officials, founded St. Gianna’s Maternity Home in Warsaw, N.D., to give women in crisis pregnancies a place to live and be cared for.

Segment 4 – Inheritance Pilgrimages
For many young people, the Holy Land may be out of reach—we are changing that. Inheritance Pilgrimages are cut from the same cloth as Steve Ray’s Footprints of God Pilgrimages, but with budget friendly meals and accommodations aimed at more youthful travelers. We are forging a path to the Holy Land for young, catholic adults. Steve’s son, Jesse Ray, joins Teresa today to discuss this and their push with matching funds to raise scholarships and funding for students to go to the Holy Land.

Segment 5 – Bible Verse of the Week
Teresa and Gail discuss 1 Timothy 4:16 — “Now the Spirit clearly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons.”