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Resources

You can find links everything and anything we used to create our shows on this page, including books about the locations we visited or saints we met, music in the shows, and much more! You can spend hours on this page, so kick up your feet, and click away! And let us know if you think we’ve left anything out!

Show #1: Central Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, Philadelphia, PA

Music

Sarah Bauer
All Access, Words and Music by Sarah Bauer and Christopher Sansone, Performed by Sarah Bauer

Nothing I Want More, Words and Music by Sarah Bauer and Christopher Sansone, Performed by Sarah Bauer

Christine Wittman
Your Faithful Love, Words and Music by Christine Wittman, Performed by Christine Wittman

Rise, Sing A Song for Jesus, written and performed by Rise

John Grassadonia, Glimpse of You (Instrumental), Music by John Grassadonia, Performed by John Grassadonia

John Grassadonia, A Glimpse of You, Words and Music by John Grassadonia, Performed by John Grassadonia

Popple, Given, Words and Music by Dan Harms, Performed by Popple

Other
Laudate Dominum, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ave Maria, Franz Schubert
Ave Verum Corpus, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Books

Catherine Labouré: Visionary of the Miraculous Medal, by René Laurentin: This book is the true story of St Catherine told in novelized form. It is fun, and well-written, and really brings St Catherine to life. I highly recommend it!

A Light Shining on the Earth: The Message of the Miraculous Medal, purchased at the Shrine: This is also a beautiful book. I’m sure the shrine gift shop still has some. If not, ask them to order some for you!

Saint Catherine Labouré of the Miraculous Medal, by Joseph I. Dirvin

Miraculous Medal, by M. Aladel

A great book about apparitions in general is A Still, Small Voice, by Father Benedict Groeschel

Other Online Resources

Show #2: St. Katharine Drexel Shrine, Bensalem, PA

Music

Sarah Bauer
All Access, Words and Music by Sarah Bauer and Christopher Sansone, © Sarah Bauer

Books

Meet Katharine Drexel: Heiress and God’s Servant of the Oppressed, by Mary Van Balen Holt
Katharine Drexel: A biography, by Sister Consuela Marie Duffy
A Call To Sanctity: The formation and life of Mother Katharine Drexel, by Lou Baldwin
Saint Katharine Drexel: Apostle to the Oppressed, by Lou Baldwin

Other Online Resources

Show # 3: National Shrine of St. Rita of Cascia, Philadelphia, PA

Music

Sarah Bauer
All Access, Words and Music by Sarah Bauer and Christopher Sansone, © Sarah Bauer

Isabel Rivera
Dot to Dot, Words and Music by Isabel Rivera, © Isabel Rivera

Books

The Precious Pearl: The Story of Saint Rita of Cascia, by Michael Di Gregorio, OSA: This is, by far, the most authoritative and historically correct book about the life of St. Rita of Cascia than any others in the marketplace. As our show will uncover, for hundreds of years, Catholics believed wrongly that St. Rita was an abused wife. Father Michael eloquently explains why we now know this to be untrue, and how it is we all came to such a misunderstanding about this saint’s life. If you read any book about St. Rita, I highly recommend you pick this one up first. I bought mine at the Shrine’s gift shop.

While there are many other books about St. Rita, I can’t, in good conscience recommend any of the others I’ve read, as all of them continue in the incorrect telling of St. Rita as an abused wife. As we say on the show, even though she wasn’t abused by her husband, St. Rita still overcame some impossible things, so if this little bit of news about her life has you shaken—don’t let it! She’s still an amazing saint!!

Other Online Resources

Future Shows:

Philadelphia

New Jersey:

  • National Shrine of Saint Gerard — Newark
  • Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart — Newark
  • Shrine Chapel of The Blessed Sacrament — Raritan
  • The Shrine of Saint Joseph — Stirling
  • Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception—Camden

New York City & Boroughs

  • The Lady Chapel in St. Patrick’s Cathedral
  • Dominican Shrine of Saint Jude
  • Our Lady of the Rosary, Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seaton, New York
  • Padre Pio Shrine
  • Old St. Patrick’s
  • St. Joseph’s Chapel — at Ground Zero
  • Church of the Blessed Sacrament
  • Church of the Holy Innocents
  • Shrine Church of Saint Jude — Canarsie
  • Our Lady of Perpetual Help — Brooklyn
  • St. Malachy’s Church — the actor’s chapel
  • St Francis Cabrini Chapel

Washington, DC

  • Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
  • Shrine of the Sacred Heart
  • Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family
  • Franciscan Monastery
  • Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle
  • Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
  • Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament
  • St Augustine Church (mother church of African Americans)
  • Sacred Heart Church—Bowie, MD

Maryland: Baltimore & surrounding area

  • Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • Cathedral of Mary Our Queen
  • Divine Mercy Shrine
  • St. Alphonsus Church, St John Neumann Shrine
  • Saint Jude Shrine
  • Shrine of the Sacred Heart
  • National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Seton — Emmitsburg
  • The National Shrine Grotto of Lourdes — Emmitsburg

Connecticut: Hartford, New Haven & surrounding area

  • Cathedral of St. Joseph—Hartford
  • St. Anne Church, Waterbury—Hartford
  • Lourdes in Litchfield — Litchfield
  • Shrine of the Infant of Prague — New Haven
  • Marian Friary of Our Lady of Guadalupe — Griswold

Massachusetts: Boston & surrounding area

  • St. Clement’s Eucharistic Shrine
  • Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
  • Madonna, Queen of the Universe National Shrine
  • Saint Anthony Shrine
  • Books on Catholic Travel

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