Rosary Army Catholic Podcast

(Formerly Adventures in Imperfect Living) - From Rosary Army to The Catholics Next Door to Adventures in Imperfect Living, Rosary Army co-founders Greg and Jennifer Willits have been pioneers in Catholic podcasts since 2005. Funny, inspiring, and thought-provoking, they share their efforts to deepen their Catholic faith, raise a family, and live out Rosary Army's motto to Make Them. Pray Them. Give Them Away.

RA #931: We Went to Kansas. It Brought Up a Lot. 05/25/2025

RA #930: Why We're Hopeful About Pope Leo XIV 05/14/2025

RA #929: A Rosary-Loving Pope? What We’re Hoping For. 05/07/2025

RA #928: Fulton Sheen, Marriage, and the Cross (and Cold Coffee) 04/02/2025

RA #927: Wait…That’s What Jesus Meant? 03/20/2025

RA #926: The Beatitudes Explained: What Jesus Really Meant (Catholic Perspective) 03/06/2025

RA #925: The Catholic Secret That Changes Lives (Total Consecration Explained) 02/20/2025

RA #924: Holy Leisure 02/05/2025

RA #923: Trusting God When You’re Running on Empty 01/22/2025

RA #922: Confession Confusion 01/07/2025

RA #921: How to Pray the Rosary without a Rosary 12/26/2024

RA #920: The Joyful Mysteries are your Life Template 12/10/2024

RA #919: Joy in Waiting: How the Rosary Can Transform Advent 12/04/2024

RA #919: Joy in Waiting: How the Rosary Can Transform Advent Are you ready to transform your Advent season? In this episode, Greg and Jennifer explore the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary and their connection to daily life. From being called by God to rediscovering Jesus in times of struggle, these stories and reflections will inspire you to live Advent with purpose and joy. ✨ Highlights: The true meaning of joy and how it differs from fleeting happiness. Stories of trust, preparation, and fulfillment inspired by the Joyful Mysteries. Why the Rosary is the perfect tool for deepening your Advent reflections. Watch the Episode (Video Version): https://youtu.be/3uUx3NqluwA 🙏🏻 LINKS: 💙 Learn how to make, pray, and give away rosaries: http://www.RosaryArmy.com 💙 Discover the life-changing Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary: SchoolOfMary.com 💙 Support Rosary Army's 2025 Giving Campaign: http://www.rosaryarmy.com/donate 🙏🏻 FREE STUFF: • Free All-Twine-Knotted Rosaries - http://www.rosaryarmy.com • School of Mary - http://www.schoolofmary.com • Audio Rosary - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosary-cast-the-gospel-as-a-meditation/id216763425 🙏🏻 ROSARY ARMY CATHOLIC PODCAST: • SPOTIFY - https://open.spotify.com/show/1TwAFJYGZjjvRzfL3f10PO • APPLE PODCASTS - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosary-army-catholic-podcast/id306875633 🙏🏻 MORE FROM GREG AND JENNIFER/ROSARY ARMY: • Rosary Army Mobile App - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rosary-army/id1357336863 • Greg's serialized novel - http://gregwillits.substack.com 🙏🏻 CONTACT & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS: [email protected] 🙏🏻 TIME STAMPS 0:00 - Introduction 0:36 - Rosary Army Mission 1:19 - Annual Giving Campaign 2:45 - Why Donate? 3:40 - Key Giving Message 5:00 - Advent by Candlelight Talk 9:02 - Storytelling and Authenticity 13:03 - The Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary 16:16 - The Annunciation and Trust 22:14 - Living the Mysteries 24:22 - Understanding Joy 29:28 - Joyful Anticipation 34:37 - Call to Action: Making Rosaries 36:11 - Total Consecration 37:18 - Impact of Rosary Army 38:19 - Closing Remarks /episode/index/show/rosaryarmy/id/34289160

RA #918: Health Scare Aftermath 11/20/2024

RA #918: Health Scare Aftermath "What Would You Do if Your World Turned Upside Down in an Instant?" In another deeply personal episode, we share how Jennifer's sudden health scare brought us face-to-face with mortality—and how faith, prayer, and the Rosary carried us through. From grappling with the spiritual battle of fear to reflecting on Memento Mori (“remember you will die”), we uncover powerful lessons about detachment, God’s grace, and living with trust in His plan. This episode isn’t just about survival—it’s about the life-changing impact of faith during life’s most uncertain moments. Whether you’re Catholic, curious about the faith, or just looking for inspiration, you’ll find hope and encouragement here. 💬 Have a similar story? Share your thoughts in the comments! 🙏🏻 LINKS: • Video Version of This Episode - https://youtu.be/UERHfygbE1M • Marco's Timestamp Private Journal App - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/timestamp-private-journal/id6670280848 🙏🏻 FREE STUFF: • Free All-Twine-Knotted Rosaries - http://www.rosaryarmy.com • School of Mary - http://www.schoolofmary.com • Audio Rosary - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosary-cast-the-gospel-as-a-meditation/id216763425 🙏🏻 ROSARY ARMY CATHOLIC PODCAST: • SPOTIFY - https://open.spotify.com/show/1TwAFJYGZjjvRzfL3f10PO • APPLE PODCASTS - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosary-army-catholic-podcast/id306875633 🙏🏻 MORE FROM GREG AND JENNIFER/ROSARY ARMY: • Rosary Army Mobile App - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rosary-army/id1357336863 • Greg's serialized novel - http://gregwillits.substack.com 🙏🏻 CONTACT & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS: [email protected] 🙏🏻 VIDEO CONTENTS 0:00 - Intro 1:39 - New (Old) Show Name 6:40 - How Should We Number the Show? 9:08 - Feedback from Hospital Trip 9:34 - To Detach or Just Depend on Grace? 17:31 - Be Not Afraid 20:47 - Should She Get a Device for Her Heart? 23:45 - Aunt and Uncle? 24:14 - What's Your End-of-Life Plan? 40:04 - Are You Making It About You? 41:56 - More Hospital Feedback 44:36 - What Heart Monitor Do You Suggest? 48:18 - Dom Agrees with Greg 49:00 - And So Does Nurse Amy 52:22 - Deliverance Prayers and Anointing of the Sick 1:00:26 - Prayers Appreciated 1:03:34 - Timestamp Private Journal #rosary #catholic #podcast #catholicpodcast /episode/index/show/rosaryarmy/id/34054681

RA #529: I thought she had died. 11/07/2024

ADV #528: Memento Mori - Remember You Will Die 10/30/2024

ADV #527: Time to Quit? 10/14/2024

ADV #526: How we (sort of) Got Our Groove Back 10/07/2024

Quick Podcast Update! 09/20/2024

ADV #525: See You Soon 06/10/2024

ADV #524: Enthrone Your Home 06/02/2024

ADV #523: Remember Everything with a Commonplace Book 05/13/2024

ADV #522: The Vital Practice of Deep Work 05/06/2024

ADV #521: Is This Killing Christianity? 04/29/2024

ADV #520: Friday Night Cocktails and a Talky Talk Show 04/22/2024

ADV #519: Our Journey to EWTN 04/14/2024

ADV #518: How to Start New Family Traditions Today! 04/08/2024

ADV #518: How to Start New Family Traditions Today! Joining us this episode is Erica Tighe Campbell, founder of BeAHeart.com and author of "Living the Seasons: Simple Ways to Celebrate the Beauty of Your Faith Throughout the Year." GUEST LINKS EPISODE SHOW NOTES & LINKS 🎥 🎓 🙏🏻 😄 📺 🍎 🔊 👀 ☎ 📧 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Erica Tighe Campbell, owner and designer of Be A Heart, created this stunning, full-color guide to creatively celebrating the faith throughout the year. Living the Seasons is brimming with clever, doable, and beautiful crafts and activities; vivid photographs; brief introductions to the seasons and the lives of the saints; heartfelt notes of encouragement from Campbell; and original Be A Heart illustrations. This gorgeous companion will become your favorite resource for living your faith at home for years to come. In Living the Seasons, Campbell offers imaginative ideas, effortless directions, and gorgeous photos of crafts, activities, meals, and snacks for a diverse variety of Catholic feast days, holy days, and seasons in the Church. She uses supplies that can easily be found at your local craft stores, party shops, or online retailers. You’ll find ways to celebrate all of the Church seasons—Advent, Christmas, Lent, the Triduum, Easter, Ordinary Time—and Holy Days of Obligation in the United States, and feast days for saints from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. And you’ll discover fun ideas and new traditions such as: throwing a baby shower for Mary; blessing your home in the New Year; celebrating Fat Tuesday with King Cake and a piñata; living like St. Joseph by spending time in silence and making a wooden baby rattle; constructing your own gratitude journal and rosary; making art for God, including a salt-dough Trinity wall hanging, an Assumption cloud pillow, and an orange garland for St. Nicholas Day; creating edible flower lollipops to remind us of the “Garden of Mary’s womb”; and baking “Cookies of Joy” in honor of St. Hildegard of Bingen. Campbell will help you discover that the liturgical calendar, which follows the seasons of a year in the life of the Church, is a tool that can draw you—individually, as a family, or as a community—closer to God in the midst of a fast-paced and ever-changing world. Along the way, the saints we celebrate teach us that the path to holiness is worthy of pursuing in our own unique way. Their lives can inspire you to listen to how God calls you to follow him as well. This book is designed to inspire you to celebrate the feast days that speak to you personally. You don’t have to start living liturgically on the first Sunday of Advent—you can begin your journey anytime during the year. You also don’t have to celebrate every feast on a grand scale. There are projects for all ages and levels of skill—from simple ways to honor a saint’s feast day with your kids to more elaborate celebrations with family and friends. /episode/index/show/rosaryarmy/id/30730043

ADV #517: Are You Passive-Aggressive Without Knowing It? 03/18/2024

ADV #516: A Thousand Good Books 03/11/2024

ADV #516: A Thousand Good Books Inspired by John Senior's "The Death of Christian Culture" and his list of 1000 Good (not Great) books, Greg and Jennifer explore how shifting their reading habits makes it easier to consume even greater books that are more mentally, emotionally, and spiritually edifying. EPISODE 516 SHOW NOTES & LINKS 🎥 🎓 🙏🏻 😄 📺 🍎 🔊 👀 ☎ 📧 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The appendix from John Senior's "The Death of Christian Culture" presents a compelling argument for the revival of Christian values in the modern world with a view of increasing our ability to dive into Great Books (like those from Augustine, Socrates, and others), by first developing the fertile soil of our mind via fables, tales, poetry, and other literary works. Thus, the "1000 Good Books" list. While this collection is aimed at young readers before they tackle the "Great Books" of Western civilization, we suggest that given the watered down nature of content distribution in the 21st century, that we could all benefit from reading more of these books, which includes a diverse range of literature spanning myths, fairy tales, novels, and poetry. Senior emphasizes that these stories, rich in virtues like courage, love, and justice, are crucial for developing a moral imagination and wisdom from a young age. The essence of the "1000 Good Books" is to lay a foundational understanding of truth, beauty, and goodness, countering the utilitarian and relativistic tendencies of contemporary education. Senior advocates for a classical approach to learning, where character formation and the pursuit of virtue are prioritized. Each selected work not only holds literary merit but also possesses the power to profoundly engage the reader's heart and mind, fostering discussions on life's significant questions within family and community contexts. Ultimately, Senior's vision through the "1000 Good Books" list is not merely educational but deeply cultural and spiritual. It serves as a roadmap for a lifelong engagement with literature that enriches the soul and intellect, urging readers to explore the depths of Christian and Western thought. This initiative is a call to rediscover the role of literature in cultivating wisdom, virtue, and a richer Christian life, aiming for a broader cultural renewal. /episode/index/show/rosaryarmy/id/30330193

ADV #515: Subjunctive and Other Weird Latin Things 03/04/2024

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