Catholic Minute
A Catholic Podcast from Ken and Janelle Yasinski about intentional Catholic living. Explore topics like marriage, parenting, sacraments, Marian devotions and cultural issues. Enhance your faith with daily reflections during Advent and Lent. Together let’s live the Catholic life. www.kenandjanelle.com
Episodes
A man dies.
And hours later… he returns.
What follows is one of the most chilling accounts preserved within Catholic tradition—recorded by Mgr. de Ségur and passed on as a warning about the reality of hell, judgment, and the eternal consequences of our choices.
In this episode, we reflect on a story that confronts the soul and calls us to take seriously what the Church teaches about mortal sin, repentance, and the urg...
In this episode, Ken and Janelle share a striking story from Catholic tradition about a woman who publicly mocked the truths of the faith—until she was confronted by the grave.
After being declared dead and buried, something unexpected happened the following day that left witnesses stunned. What followed became a powerful reminder about repentance, the reality of death, and the urgency of conversion.
During this Lenten ref...
Catholic story from the life of St. Benedict and a famous moment from early Christian monastic history.
In this Lent Daily episode we share a striking story from Catholic tradition. During a meal, a cup is placed before St. Benedict — and a simple blessing reveals something no one in the room expected.
This moment from the life of St. Benedict reminds us that faithfulness to God does not always mean winning a conflict. Som...
In this Lenten conversation, we explore why so many people begin Lent with good intentions but end up giving up their penances, fasting, or spiritual commitments along the way.
Why does this happen so often? And what spiritual lie might be behind that discouragement?
In this episode we talk about the real purpose of Catholic self-denial, the meaning of penance, and why the Church calls us to prayer, fasting, and almsgiving...
In this episode, we share a striking story from Catholic tradition connected to St. Basil the Great, bishop of Caesarea and one of the great Doctors of the Church.
A servant desperate to marry his master's daughter turns to an enchanter and writes a pact renouncing Christ and his baptism. But when the truth comes to light, the man seeks help from St. Basil, believing the written contract still binds him.
What follows ...
In this Lent Daily reflection, Ken and Janelle share a sobering story from Catholic tradition about confession, hidden sin, and the danger of deceiving ourselves.
A monk known for his holiness dies and is buried by his brothers in the monastery. But soon after his burial, something happens that shocks the entire community and reveals a hidden truth about the soul.
This powerful story reminds us of the importance of making ...
In this Catholic Lent reflection, we share a powerful story from Catholic tradition about conversion, repentance, and the surprising ways God calls a soul back to Him. This Lenten meditation from early Christian history tells how a bishop, after seeing a woman celebrated for her beauty and wealth, suddenly collapsed to the ground in repentance before God.
In the early fourth century, during a time when Christians still faced persecution under Roman authority, a young queen named Catherine stood before the rulers of Alexandria and refused to worship the pagan gods of the empire. When Roman authorities summoned fifty of their greatest philosophers to defeat her in debate, they expected the young Christian woman to be humiliated.
Instead, something astonishing happened.
An angel appeared in her prison cell… offering freedom. But St. Juliana of Nicomedia, a Catholic martyr of the early Church, recognized the deception: the visitor was not an angel at all—it was the devil.
This powerful Catholic saint story from ancient Christian tradition reveals a dramatic moment of spiritual warfare during the persecutions of the early Church.
Two Russian generals mocked the Catholic teaching on Hell and made a pact: whichever died first would return and reveal the truth about the afterlife.
One of them kept his word.
In this episode, we explore a powerful story from Catholic tradition that confronts the reality of Hell, final judgment, and the urgency of repentance. Drawing from Scripture and the writings of St. Alphonsus Liguori, we reflect on mortal sin, prep...
A condemned man refused the Sacrament of Confession before his execution.
Thirty days after death, he returned with a terrifying declaration: “I am eternally damned.”
In this episode, we examine a sobering account preserved in Catholic tradition that confronts the reality of hell, the danger of despair, and the urgency of repentance before death.
What is the sin of despair?
Can a person reject Divine Mercy?
...
This Catholic Lenten reflection explores the true story of St. Agnes, a 13-year-old virgin martyr and early Christian saint of the Catholic Church during the Roman persecution of Christians under the Roman Empire. Her miracle, martyrdom, and total consecration to Jesus Christ remain a powerful witness to Catholic faith, repentance, conversion, purity, and holiness during Lent.
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What happens when a man signs away his soul in blood? In Episode 6 of our Lent Daily series, we explore one of the most terrifying yet hopeful miracles in Church history: The miraculous fall and rise of Saint Theophilus the Penitent.
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In this Lenten reflection, we share a powerful Catholic story of repentance, mortal sin, and Marian mercy.
One night, a young man was shown hell. His companion was damned — but through a few Hail Marys to the Blessed Virgin Mary, he was spared. That moment of mercy led to total conversion… and eventually to martyrdom by fire for Jesus Christ.
This episode explores the power of the Hail Mary, devotion to Our Lady, spiritual...
Lent calls us to the Holy Cross — but can mortal sin block our return?
St. Mary of Egypt’s dramatic conversion reveals how repentance restores us to grace and opens the way back to Holy Communion.
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St. Lucy of Syracuse lived in 3rd-century Sicily during the Roman persecutions of Christians. When ordered to sacrifice to pagan gods, she refused. Ancient Christian tradition recounts that soldiers attempted to drag her away, yet she stood unmoved. Her body could be bound, but her will remained free.
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This video explains the purpose of Lent in the Catholic Church, including Catholic teaching on the 40 days in the desert, Lent fasting rules, abstinence from meat, prayer during Lent, penance, and preparation for Easter.
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This Catholic Lent reflection shares a powerful true story of a condemned prisoner who faced the Devil on the night before his execution. In this 1700s Catholic account, Satan demands that he renounce Jesus Christ, the Sacraments, and the Virgin Mary — in exchange for his life.
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Ash Wednesday begins the Catholic season of Lent — a time when the Church calls us to remember death, judgment, and eternity. In this true Catholic account from Naples in 1707, St. Francis of Jerome warns a woman who mocked the reality of hell. Eight days later, the warning was fulfilled.
This sobering episode reminds us of the Four Last Things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell — eternal realities taught by the...
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