Women of Grace

Host: Johnnette Benkovic

Host: Johnnette Benkovic You’ve probably heard about the power of prayer and you wish you could believe in it—but you are going through a struggle and sometimes you don’t even know how to pray. Johnnette Benkovic kicks off the show with an invigorating mediation on the power of prayer. But wait, that meditation goes right into action when listener Michelle calls in desperate to overcome an addiction through no fault of her own and urgently looking for help.

Host: Johnnette Benkovic When you are going through a serious illness or through trouble in life, do you wish you could brush it aside and make it disappear? Johnnette Benkovic starts the show with an insightful reflection about embracing the cross in our lives. She reminds us the Cross is God’s power! Listener Sarah calls in to ask how come when she started a novena to Our Lady Undoes of Knots because of a disagreement with her mom, all of a sudden the problem escalated—just when Sarah hoped it would get better. The answer Johnnette gives Sarah with take you by surprise.

Host: Johnnette BenkovicHey, do you snack during the day? Do you always carry that snack with you… to work, school or in the bus or the car? Well, why not always carry with you a thought for prayerful meditation? Johnnette Benkovic starts the show today with a teaching segment about Lectio Divina. Oftentimes, the words just jump off the page at her. Has that happened to you?

Host: Johnnette BenkovicHow can you become the sweet repose of the dwelling of Christ in you, this Advent? A profound question begs a profound reflection. Johnnette Benkovic delves deep into a very timely meditation on the incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord desires that you not only taste that divinity but that you abide in that divinity.

Host: Johnnette BenkovicListener Mary is a nurse and teaches students. She needs help to find facts that prove birth control is a group 1 carcinogen. Johnnette provides a number of scientific and medical sources that put birth control up there with cigarettes and radiation, as a definite cause of cancer for otherwise healthy patients.

Host: Johnnette BenkovicHelp! Are we too stressed? Sixty percent of all doctor’s visits are related to stress and an additional twenty percent of all doctor visits—on top of that—are related to illnesses that have a stress component. But you may have also heard stress is good. Well, where do you draw the line? In today’s The Best of Women of Grace, we bring you again this show that will open your eyes: Johnnette Benkovic invites Catholic psychotherapist Dr. Gregory Popcak to talk about how to handle stress.

Host: Johnnette BenkovicAnd here it is: the Best of Women of Grace. Today we bring you a remarkable episode that aired in the past and you may have missed it. Listener Joan wants to educate her children in the Catholic faith. Catholic school is very expensive and she is unsure she can do homeschooling. Johnnette Benkovic invites to the show the founder and president of Seton Hall Study of homeschooling Dr. Mary Kay Clark and her son John Clark, an entrepreneur.

Host: Johnnette BenkovicToday we bring you the Best of Women of Grace, a great show that aired in the past and you may have missed it. In the show’s second half, Shahla calls in to understand Catholicism. She is a Muslim, originally from Pakistan—where she studied under Irish Catholic nuns—and Shahla wants to understand our devotion to Our Most Blessed Mother. Johnnette has a delightful conversation with this lovely woman who is a Muslim listening to Catholic Radio—what about that, eh?! Other listeners call in witnessing to the power of prayer, like Barbara with a smile from ear to ear. You may remember she called in a desperate situation last week as she drove behind the ambulance carrying her husband who had just taken a bad fall and Johnnette prayed with her until she got to the hospital parking lot.

Host: Johnnette BenkovicDo you have trouble understanding how your spouse thinks or why they act strangely toward you? Do you think both of you might need a marriage retreat to smooth out wrinkles? Well, start here, with this episode of Women of Grace. After Johnnette Benkovic starts the show with a powerful reflection, a first-time caller, Ray, chimes in to ask how to understand his wife who is so emotional while he tries to be so rational. He’s trying to come back to the Catholic faith and reading about faith and reason.

Host: Johnnette BenkovicThe many excuses people use to justify cohabitation are causing the many ways children get hurt from living in cohabitation households. Oh, if only the children could speak to us—adults—about what it is like to be on the receiving end of our selfish adult decisions. Elena Rodríguez sits in for Johnnette Benkovic to talk to Sue Brinkmann—staff researcher and journalist at www.womenofgrace.com.

Host: Johnnette BenkovicJohnnette Benkovic starts the show with an energizing reflection on how to feed your spiritual life. If you are going through a darkness of the soul or you just want to seek a deeper spiritual life, boy, oh boy… you better listen to this. Later on, listener Mark calls in to talk about the Stella Maris prayer. Johnnette explains the meaning and importance of beautiful traditional prayer of the Catholic Church. Claudia calls in with a question that might help you or a loved one: how do you forgive your spouse who hurts you if he doesn’t even see the need to apologize and it’s brewing inside of you? Wait until you hear Johnnette’s empowering response to Claudia.

Host: Johnnette BenkovicWe bring you the best of Women of Grace, in case you may have missed this show when it aired in the past. Grant calls in to talk about the New Evangelization. He questions if it should be the shepherds leading the sheep rather than the sheep leading the sheep, in case sheep may not be qualified for the job of evangelization. Johnnette Benkovic invites Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers to talk about the New Evangelization.

Host: Johnnette BenkovicJohnnette Benkovic sits down with guest Dr. Ralph Martin, president of Renewal Ministries and author of the book The Fulfillment of All Desire, to talk about making our way to God and our spiritual journey. María calls in wanting to know why she cries every time she receives Holy Communion. Does she have a gift of tears? That is what Dr. Ralph addresses.

Host: Johnnette BenkovicGuest: Thomas K SullivanDo you have a rosary in your hands? Let me ask you again: are you carrying a rosary? After you hear this show, you will pray the Rosary and urge your loved ones to never leave home without it. We don’t take listener calls today because hostess Johnnette Benkovic brings on guest Thomas K. Sullivan. He is the author of the book “Called to Knighthood: The Sacrament of Confirmation in the Kingdom Family of Christ through the Sacrament of Confirmation.”