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May's Teaching Moment
Our Church honors the Blessed Mother during the month of May in many special ways. One way to honor Mary during May is to learn something new about her. For example, we can learn about the Holy House of Loreto, Italy where it is said that the Blessed Mother was born there, lived there, and it’s where the Annunciation took place. Devout tradition holds that the Holy House was miraculously carried by angels from Nazareth to Loreto in 1294. Or maybe it was brought to Italy after the Crusades. The three walls of the Holy House fit perfectly with the perimeter of the Grotto in Nazareth. Its stones are typical of the Palestinian buildings at the time of Christ. A fourth wall was added in 1922 where we can see the sacred image of the Virgin of Loreto. A site of miracles and conversion, this is where Mary gave her fiat to God. In the words of Pope Benedict XVI, “Loreto, after Nazareth, is the ideal place to pray while meditating on the mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God.” Our Lady of Loreto, pray for us.
Loreto and the Holy House of Mary from NC Register
The Holy House from Nazareth to Loreto from Vatican website
Carolina Catholic chats with the Founding Principal of the Father Thomas F. Price Catholic High School, Dennis Fleck
For our first show in May, I chat with Dennis Fleck who is the founding principal for Wilmington's first Catholic high school, the Father Thomas F. Price Catholic High School, which will open this fall semester 2026. Dennis was the assistant principal and dean of students at St. Mark's Catholic School retiring in 2022, and he has 45 years of experience in education. Father Thomas Price was a native of Wilmington, and he was the first Wilmington native to be ordained a Catholic priest, and he co-founded Maryknoll. In this show, we will discuss the plans for this high school and learn a bit more about its namesake, whose cause for canonization in now in Rome.
This show will air on Wilmington Catholic Radio's station, 93.1 FM, on Saturdays at 11 am and Sundays at 6 pm on the third and fourth weekends of May. You can listen on-line live by clicking on the Listen Now tab. Or, listen 24/7 by going to the Carolina Catholic tab and clicking on the show page.
Carolina Catholic chats with Belmont Abbey's new college president, Dr. Jeffrey Talley, and with Catholic author, Kevin Wells, about his new weekly reflection, The Wellspring
For our second show in April, I first chat with Dr. Jeffrey Talley, the 21st president of Belmont Abbey College in its 150 year history. A retired lieutenant general in the U.S. Army since 2016, Dr. Talley is an engineer with long careers in both academia and business done while serving 34 years in both active and reserve duty including several deployments. I then speak with Catholic author, Kevin Wells, about his new Friday reflections sent via email called The Wellspring.
This show will air on Wilmington Catholic Radio's station, 93.1 FM, on Saturdays at 11 am and Sundays at 6 pm on the first and second weekends of May. You can listen on-line live by clicking on the Listen Now tab. Or, listen 24/7 by going to the Carolina Catholic tab and clicking on the show page.