Seize The Day

    Monday, July 18, 2022

    Monday, July 18, 2022
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    Gus announced today that the new Good Morning Child of God! 9 x 12 canvas prints are now available. He shared the story of how these came to be. You...

    Friday, July 15, 2022

    Friday, July 15, 2022
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    Today is the Feast of St. Bonaventure. Gus talks about how he's a saint with a very popular name but also one that most Catholics know very little about. To...

    Thursday, July 14, 2022

    Thursday, July 14, 2022
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    Melissa Presser joins Gus in the Conversion Corner. Melissa grew up the only practicing Jew in a household of cultural Jews and shares her incredible story about converting to Catholicism....

    Wednesday, July 13, 2022

    Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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    Gus plays an audio clip of Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts who vows to shut down crisis pregnancy centers. In it, she says those centers "fool people looking for pregnancy...

    Monday, July 11, 2022

    Monday, July 11, 2022
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    Dr. Abigail Favale, author of The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory, calls in to talk about the issue that's been muddled and seems to be dominating our culture. Later,...

    Friday, July 8, 2022

    Friday, July 8, 2022
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    Gus does a little memory exercise for listeners. He asks them, when you hear the words "the mystery of faith," which response do you think of? Gus also engages in...

    Thursday, July 7, 2022

    Thursday, July 7, 2022
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    Gus goes over a few good news/bad news stories on the pro-life front. First, the bad news. The state AG of the State of New York is asking Google to...

    Wednesday, July 6, 2022

    Wednesday, July 6, 2022
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    Today would've been Gus' younger brother Glenn's 60th birthday. He was murdered in Miami in October, 1992. Gus talks about the pain of losing a loved one so early in their...

    Tuesday, July 5, 2022

    Tuesday, July 5, 2022
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    Gus does an episode of Tell Me Something Good but has an Independence Day twist. He talks about a recent Gallup poll about American pride, which showed that a record...

    Thursday, June 30, 2022

    Thursday, June 30, 2022
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    Gus talks about recovering from his knee replacement surgery and how he's chalking the pain and inconvenience up to redemptive suffering. He invites listeners whoever replaced a body part or...

    Wednesday, June 29, 2022

    Wednesday, June 29, 2022
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    Gus Lloyd is back! He's live for the first time since having a total knee replacement surgery two weeks ago and is rearing to go. He shares about his recovery...

    Monday, June 13, 2022

    Monday, June 13, 2022
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    Today is the Feast of St. Anthony of Padua. The 13th century saint, who was part of St. Francis of Assisi's original Franciscan order, is perhaps most commonly known as...

    Friday, June 10, 2022

    Friday, June 10, 2022
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    Fr. Leo Patalinghug calls in to talk with Gus about their recent Rhine River Pilgrimage together, what are good gifts to give priests and a host of other topics only...

    Thursday, June 9, 2022

    Thursday, June 9, 2022
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    Gus talks about his Rhine River Pilgrimage and something that he saw in the Church of the Holy Ghost in Heidelberg, Germany. There was a work of modern art on...

    Wednesday, June 8, 2022

    Wednesday, June 8, 2022
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    Gus returns to Seize the Day after a 10-day Rhine River pilgrimage, which included seeing the Oberammergau Passion Play. He talks about it in detail  and gives a more detailed description of what...

    Wednesday, May 25, 2022

    Wednesday, May 25, 2022
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    Gus talks about the school shooting that took place at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas yesterday that took the lives of 19 young children and three adults. He talks...

    Tuesday, May 24, 2022

    Tuesday, May 24, 2022
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    Gus presents some reaction following Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone's barring of Nancy Pelosi from the Eucharist. He plays a clip of Whoopi Goldberg reacting to it on the View and then gets callers' opinions....

    Monday, May 23, 2022

    Monday, May 23, 2022
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    Gus talks about San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone barred Nancy Pelosi, who lives in that archdiocese, from receiving holy communion at mass because of her outspoken beliefs on abortion and...

    Friday, May 20, 2022

    Friday, May 20, 2022
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    Gus talks about a question posed to him by a friend the other day. He asked, do you think we'll ever drink from the communal chalice again at Sunday mass....

    Thursday, May 19, 2022

    Thursday, May 19, 2022
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    Gus talks about Pope St. Celestine V, the saint whose feast we celebrate today. He was one of the few popes who resigned the office of the papacy, after only...

    Wednesday, May 18, 2022

    Wednesday, May 18, 2022
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    The 2021-2023 Synod on Synodality is coming up and Pope Francis wants the laity involved. A survey to mark their participation has been issued to every parish in the world...

    Tuesday, May 17, 2022

    Tuesday, May 17, 2022
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    Gus talks about God's sense of humor and it's evident in today's First Reading from Acts where the apostle Paul is stoned by some Jews in Antioch and Iconium although...

    Monday, May 16, 2022

    Monday, May 16, 2022
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    Today is the Feast of St. Simon Stock so Gus talks a little bit about the brown scapular, which is a devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the form...

    Friday, May 13, 2022

    Friday, May 13, 2022
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    Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima and Gus tells the story of Our Lady's appearances at Fatima in 1917. Also, in her honor, Gus prays and Intentional...

    Thursday, May 12, 2022

    Thursday, May 12, 2022
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    We are in the midst of First Holy Communion season so Gus invites listeners to call in and share who in their life is receiving the first communion and/or memories...

    Wednesday, May 11, 2022

    Wednesday, May 11, 2022
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    Gus continues his Conversion Corner: Harvard Series with Harvard junior Loren Brown who came to the university from Washington state where, he says, faith is not a big thing. He...

    Tuesday, May 10, 2022

    Tuesday, May 10, 2022
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    Gus took this past Friday and Monday off and he talks about what he and Michelle did, including visiting their son John in Jacksonville, Florida and going bowling. He also...

    Thursday, May 5, 2022

    Thursday, May 5, 2022
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    Gus has an open forum and invites listeners to call in and talk to him about whatever is on their minds. We hear a lot of questions surrounding the possible...

    Wednesday, May 4, 2022

    Wednesday, May 4, 2022
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    Dr. Matthew Bunson of EWTN calls in from Rome. He talks about how Italy is only now beginning to loosen its COVID restrictions. He and Gus also discuss Pope Francis'...

    Tuesday, May 3, 2022

    Tuesday, May 3, 2022
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    Gus goes over the breaking news of the leak of the majority opinion in the Dobbs. vs. Jackson Women's Health. If the leaked document, which is unprecedented in the history...

    Monday, May 2, 2022

    Monday, May 2, 2022
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    Ron Ratliff sits down with Gus in the Conversion Corner. Ron grew up in the Baptist faith and, for much of his young adult life, was very anti-Catholic. He shares...

    Friday, April 28, 2022

    Friday, April 28, 2022
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    Based off today's First Reading from Acts of the Apostles, where a Pharisee named Gamaliel talks to the Sanhedrin about the followers of Jesus and tells them, if this is...

    Thursday, April 28, 2022

    Thursday, April 28, 2022
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    Gus recounts a parish mission he took part in this past Lent where he met a man named Bill. Bill is retired and told Gus that, after a short honeymoon...

    Wednesday, April 27, 2022

    Wednesday, April 27, 2022
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    Today's Gospel reading contains perhaps the most famous Bible chapter and verse reference in John 3:16. To some, it's the most famous Bible verse. Some call it the Bible in...

    Tuesday, April 26, 2022

    Tuesday, April 26, 2022
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    Gus goes over a couple of news items of Catholic interest. Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Kennedy vs. Bremerton School District where ex-Bremerton High...

    Monday, April 25, 2022

    Monday, April 25, 2022
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    Since today is the first saint feast day we've celebrated in the liturgy in two weeks, Gus talks a little about St. Mark the Evangelist, including some of the things...

    Friday, April 22, 2022

    Friday, April 22, 2022
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    Gus talks about simple pleasures in life. For example, this morning, on his daily walk, he was overcome with the aroma of flowers. They were so fragrant that he had...

    Thursday, April 21, 2022

    Thursday, April 21, 2022
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    Gus is joined by Hans Plate, founder and president of Vinea Research, who talks about a survey his organization really did that measures the effects of the COVID pandemic on...

    Wednesday, April 20, 2022

    Wednesday, April 20, 2022
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    Yesterday, a federal judge struck down the CDC's mask mandate for transportation, calling it unlawful. Gus talks about the effects of mask mandates on our culture, which caused incredible division....

    Tuesday, April 19, 2022

    Tuesday, April 19, 2022
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    The new movie Father Stu was released last Wednesday so Gus invites listeners who've seen it to call in and share their reviews. Later, Gus talks about Lenten penances and how...

    Easter Monday, April 18, 2022

    Easter Monday, April 18, 2022
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    Happy Easter! Alleluia, alleluia! He is Risen, He is Risen indeed! Gus invites listeners to call in and share their Easter mass experience. He asks them how well attended it was...

    Holy Thursday, April 14, 2022

    Holy Thursday, April 14, 2022
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    Today is Holy Thursday, which marks the beginning of the Triduum. Gus talks about what goes in liturgically over the next three days and previews some of the readings from...

    Wednesday, April 13, 2022

    Wednesday, April 13, 2022
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    Today is the final full day in the Season of Lent so Gus invites listeners to call in and share their final Lenten grades. Also, Dr. Matthew Bunson of EWTN...

    Tuesday, April 12, 2022

    Tuesday, April 12, 2022
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    This weekend, Gus watched a screener of the new movie Father Stu starring Mark Wahlberg, which opens tomorrow. Gus shares a little bit of the synopsis of the film, without...

    Monday, April 11, 2022

    Monday, April 11, 2022
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    Gus talks about the Gospel reading at yesterday's Palm Sunday Mass. It's the full Passion of the Lord story from Luke's Gospel and, at his parish, the parishioners didn't participate....

    Friday, April 8, 2022

    Friday, April 8, 2022
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    Mark Hart the Bible Geek calls in and, after catching up with Gus, talks about a new thing he's involved in with Ascension Press called "Venture: The Bible Timeline for...

    Thursday, April 7, 2022

    Thursday, April 7, 2022
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    Gus goes over a few news stories of Catholic interest, including discovery of 115 aborted babies from D.C. abortion mill, including five partial-birth abortions and a Jesuit-run middle school in...

    Wednesday, April 6, 2022

    Wednesday, April 6, 2022
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    Pro-life advocate Abby Johnson calls in to talk about her new book "Fierce Mercy: Daring to Live Out God's Compassion in Bold and Practical Ways." Much of it deals with Abby's struggle...

    Tuesday, April 5, 2022

    Tuesday, April 5, 2022
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    Gus talks about married couples and their bedroom habits. That is, when it comes to television. He and Michelle have been married for over 40 years and they've never had...

    Monday, April 4, 2022

    Monday, April 4, 2022
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    Gus talks about yesterday's Gospel about the Scribes and Pharisees bringing the woman caught in adultery to Jesus and wanting to stone her. One portion of that Gospel mentions how,...

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