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The Radiothon is Coming!  The Radiothon is Coming!

WJMJ Radio is gearing up for our Spring Radiothon to be held June 19-23, 2025.  WJMJ is the Catholic radio station of the Archdiocese of Hartford that plays great music with live announcers and provides inspirational messages you won't find anywhere else, plus local, national and religious news and local weather you may or may not find on commercial radio stations, all without those annoying commercials!

Help keep this great station on the air.  WJMJ Catholic Radio, Where Faith Meets Life®

Volunteers with basic computer and customer service skills are needed during the Radiothon to man the phone bank for the following shifts:  Saturday, noon -3 p.m. and 3 p.m.-6 p.m., and Monday, 6 a.m.-9 a.m. at our studios in Prospect.   Contact Traci at 203.758.7367 ext. 1000 or click here to sign up.
American Heritage

Want to learn more about this historical tour scheduled for December 2025? Join us for an exciting virtual presentation to learn all about this unforgettable 8-day journey through American history, featuring iconic destinations like Washington, D.C., Arlington National Cemetery, Monticello, Colonial Williamsburg, and the luxurious Greenbrier Resort via Zoom conducted by Collette Tours on Monday, June 16, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. EDT.  Advance registration is required. Just click the meeting registration button below to register.

Meeting Registration
***After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.***

For more information, trip details or to Book Now go to https://gateway.gocollette.com/link/1345202 or call 203.805.5036.  View the tour flyer . 

Jubilee 2025

2025 Jubilee: The Holy Year

With Optional 2-Night Venice and St. Anthony of Padua Post Tour Extension

The Office of Radio & Television and WJMJ Radio invite you to join Father John Gatzak on a special pilgrimage tour to Italy in celebration of Jubilee 2025: The Holy Year of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Jubilee is a special year of grace, in which the Catholic Church offers the faithful the possibility of asking for a plenary indulgence, that is, the remission of sins for themselves or for deceased relatives. A Jubilee usually lasts a year and a few days: it begins just before the Christian Christmas and ends on the Epiphany of the following year.

We still have a few seats remaining for this Jubilee year pilgrimage. So, don't miss this opportunity to be among the first to see Pope Leo XIV, the Church's first American born pope!

Florence, Assisi & Rome, October 26 to November 6, 2025 (12 Days)

Do you want to learn more about this exciting 2025 Jubilee pilgrimage hosted by Father John Gatzak, featuring Florence, Assisi and Rome?  Please watch our Zoom travel presentation conducted by Collette Tours, originally recorded on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, just click the button below.

Habemus Papam!
We Have a Pope!
Leo XIV
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Leo XIV

Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost

Elected 267th Pope on May 8, 2025

Pontificate Inaugurated on May 18, 2025

Biography of Pope Leo XIV
First Urbi et Orbi of Pope Leo XIV 'Peace be with all of you'
Pope Leo XIV's Motto and Coat of Arms
Homily Given by Pope Leo XIV during the Mass for the inauguration of his pontificate
The Fisherman's Ring

How to Pray the Rosary

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The purpose of the Rosary is to help keep in memory certain principal events or mysteries in the history of our salvation, and to thank and praise God for them.  There are twenty mysteries reflected upon in the Rosary, and these are divided into the five JOYFUL MYSTERIES, the five LUMINOUS MYSTERIES, the five SORROWFUL MYSTERIES, and the five GLORIOUS MYSTERIES.

  1. Make the Sign of the Cross and say the "Apostles' Creed."

  2. Say the "Our Father."

  3. Say three "Hail Mary’s."

  4. Say the "Glory be to the Father."

  5. Announce the First Mystery; then say the "Our Father."

  6. Say ten "Hail Mary’s," while meditating on the Mystery.

  7. Say the "Glory be to the Father."

  8. Announce the Second Mystery; then say the "Our Father." Repeat 6 and 7 and continue with Third, Fourth and Fifth Mysteries in the same manner.

 After the Rosary:

HAIL, HOLY QUEEN, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope! To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary!

V. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray.  O GOD, whose only begotten Son, by His life, death, and resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life, grant, we beseech Thee, that meditating upon these mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we may imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise, through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen.

After each decade say the following prayer requested by the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima: "O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those who have most need of your mercy."

As suggested by Pope John Paul II the Joyful mysteries are said on Monday and Saturday, the Luminous on Thursday, the Sorrowful on Tuesday and Friday, and the Glorious on Wednesday and Sunday (with this exception: Sundays of Christmas season - The Joyful; Sundays of Lent - Sorrowful).

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Rachel's Vineyard
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