UPON THIS SUMMER 2019SUMMER How EWTN Catholic Radio Brought Keith Back to the Catholic Church I have been on a roller coaster for a number of years in regard to my Christian faith and my return to the Catholic Church. I am a cradle Catholic. My parents are almost 90 and still attend weekly Mass at St Leo’s in Cleveland where I was baptized, received First Holy Communion and confirmed. Like a typical child of the baby boomer years I was, as Father John Riccardo likes to say, “…sacramentalized, but never evangelized.” I attended Mass and CCD classes until I was old enough to say I was going but never showed up. By the time I was 16 I never attended church again until I was married at age 21, yes, of course in the Catholic Church. We had a daughter and raised her in the Church where she was also sacramentalized but never evangelized. That marriage lasted seven years and then we divorced due mainly to my excessive drinking. The marriage was later annulled by the Catholic Church. For the next 13 years I did not attend any type of church. My drinking progressed, and I became an alcoholic. During my ten or so years of active addiction to alcohol, I was a godless person. I lived a life of self-will run rampant; a very selfish, self-centered life. At age 40 I found the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous and I currently have 27 years of sobriety. This is where I started the second phase of my spiritual journey. I was evangelized by a Prayer for Christian who introduced me to Jesus, and he explained that I needed to have a personal relationship with Him. I started attending church regularly. I started to attend bible studies and AM 1260 The Rock became very active in the church. Continued on page 6 St. Peter, you are the Shepherd of the sheep, the Prince of the Apostles, the Rock. Intercede for WCCR, AM 1260 The Rock, YOUR OPINION MATTERS! that we may faithfully proclaim Take the 2019 Listener Survey! the Word, Jesus Christ, and We want to hear from you! Our 2019 Listener Survey is now available for you to give your feedback on AM 1260 The Rock’s array of programming. serve His Church that He appointed you to protect. We Visit www.am1260therock.com between August 1st and 31st and click on the link on the home page to share your thoughts on how AM 1260 The Rock is place AM 1260 The Rock under impacting your faith life, and on how we can serve you better. If you do not your patronage, that we may have access to a computer but would like to participate, please call us Monday do all for His honor and glory. through Friday between 9 AM and 4 PM at 216-227-1260 to obtain a paper copy of the survey. Amen. St. Peter The Rock Media Board of Directors Gerald A. Monroe Esq. President The Communion of Saints Dick Russ One of the best things about summertime is the treasury of Saints’ feast Secretary days which Holy Mother Church opens for our celebration and instruction during the weeks following Pentecost. There are feasts all throughout Jim Gero, CPA the year, but the liturgical calendar is especially richly decorated during Treasurer the summer months, when almost every day gives us the opportunity to Joan Andrews praise God in His most glorious works of all, who are firstly the Blessed Leo Burkardt Virgin Mary, and after her, the holy Angels and the other Saints. Lisa Gould The holy Angels and Saints repay our devotion by bringing our prayers Timothy Jakubisin and petitions before God on His throne. As attested by her humble Keith Robilotta beginnings, AM 1260 The Rock would not exist today but for their Michael Santelli ongoing intercession. The Rock has several patrons in heaven who Tom Wenzel can be identified with confidence, because of the prayers and fasts that have been specifically entrusted to them at critical points along the way since our founding in 2014. Chaplain One of them is St. Junípero Serra (+1784), the Fr. Doug Brown humble Franciscan Priest whose liturgical feast we The Rock has several Executive Director celebrated on July 1. As the Catholic missionary Bernadette Boguski who founded modern-day California, he is the patrons in heaven who prototype of the Franciscan Missionaries of the can be identified with Staff Eternal Word, the congregation of Priests which Timothy Boulware Mother Angelica (a Franciscan herself) founded in confidence, because Production Manager 1987 to serve as the primary temporal guardians of the prayers and of the Eternal Word Television Network and EWTN fasts that have been Sarah Dougherty Radio. Thank you, St. Junípero! Administrative Assistant specifically entrusted to Kate Mathis Another is the Curé of Ars, St. Jean Marie them at critical points Advertising and Vianney (+1859), the humble parish pastor who along the way since our Communications Coordinator frequently spent more than 16 hours a day hearing Confessions, and converted and “reverted” many founding in 2014. thousands of souls to the Catholic faith by his Mission Statement famous preaching, much of which has been preserved in print to this day. Pope Benedict St. Peter The Rock Media XVI declared him in 2009 to be the patron Saint of all Priests everywhere. His feast day is a lay apostolate with the on the general Roman calendar being August 4, it was superseded in the Ordinary Form mission to provide quality of the Mass this year because that date fell on a Sunday. But in the Extraordinary Form of programming that is faithful the Mass, his feast remains on its traditional date of August 8, and so we will still have the to the teachings of the Church chance this year to say: Thank you, St. Jean Vianney! and presented in a way that inspires conversion of heart There are several others, but in this limited space we must also mention our dearest St. Maria and a deepening of faith while Goretti, Virgin and Martyr, whose liturgical feast day is July 6. With forgiveness of her murderer building up the local body on her lips, Maria’s soul entered heaven on that date in 1902 at the delicate age of 11, because of Christ. she had chosen on the previous day to accept his 14 brutal and enraged stabs with an awl rather than consent to his lustful advances. Maria is the very model of Christian purity to a world and to a Church which, until Catholic radio came along, seems to have forgotten altogether what purity is and how much it is worth. From heaven she smiles on AM 1260 The Rock’s programming and on all who support this mission with their prayers and donations. Pope Pius XII canonized Maria in June 1950 in the presence of a vast crowd which included her mother and her assailant—by St. Peter The Rock Media then repentant and reformed because of the prayers which she had promised for him from her 145 Ken Mar Industrial Parkway deathbed—and in a homily broadcast over the radio, declared her a patron Saint of young people Broadview Heights, OH 44147 everywhere, and their parents. Thank you, St. Maria Goretti! 216.227.1260 www.am1260therock.com To all listeners and benefactors, from all of us at AM 1260 The Rock, may God bless your summertime and keep you and your families safe! St. Peter The Rock Media is a Jerry Monroe 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. Gerald A. (Jerry) Monroe is the president of St. Peter The Rock Media All contributions are tax-deductible. 2 am1260therock.com Corner Chaplain’s Day of Prayer for THE Catholic Radio August 14 IMPORTANCE Feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe OF DAILY PRAYER Prayer for Catholic Radio If there are students in your family, you God our Father, we humbly seek your likely tend to organize your time about all-powerful blessing on the work we have the academic calendar and less so upon the Gregorian calendar; begun and ask you to bring it to completion. meaning that September often feels like the beginning of a new year Give success to the work of our hands. as opposed to January. After the disruptive schedule of June, July Lord Jesus, we seek your blessing on this and August in which travel, family gatherings and long summer days radio station and ask you to consecrate it to often make it difficult to establish a family routine, September brings the bold proclamation of your living Word, with it an opportunity to structure time in a way more conducive to proclaimed in the midst of your One, Holy, prayer. I have often recommended that one confirm a specific time Catholic and Apostolic Church. Guard us for daily prayer and that it remains relatively consistent from day-to- from the evil one and from all those who day. What that means is that we cannot leave prayer to a convenient would sow destruction or despair. Keep us time each day as that time may never come and one will retire for the in communion of mind and heart with our evening without spending time in conversation with God. Pope and Bishops, upon whom we invoke Fortunately, there is AM 1260 The Rock here in the Diocese of your mercy. Cleveland to assist us in our daily prayers. With the Holy Rosary Spirit of God, rain upon our labors your offered twice a day, in the early morning and at night, the Divine sevenfold gifts that we may make known Mercy Chaplet offered at 3 pm, and Daily Mass at 10 am each day, in truth and love the voice of Jesus.