KMMK 88.7 FM Kolbe Konnection episode 123 on 7/11/2025 with host Tony May, OFS, who with Susan Man, OFS, Co-Manage KMMK. Fr. Dennis Miller, our normal guest is absent this week on retreat with youth at the Steubenville (Franciscan University) Conference in Rochester, Minnesota. God Bless him in this undertaking. This week we feature a podcast initiated by two priests on our Archdiocese, Fr. Jacob Rouse from Cresco currently and Fr. Kevin Earlywine, who serves in New Hampton, Holy Family Parish (with the newly assigned Fr. Chris Podhajski). Their podcast is called Dubeucharitic Revival in honor of the 3 year Eucharistic Revival led by Bishop Cozzins of the Crookston, Minnesota Diocese. Fathers Rouse and Earlywine in turn interview Anthony Digmann, national speaker and teacher at Beckman High School in Dyersville. He tells his witness story, which really starts with his receiving Confirmation. But it took him a while to put it all together. Lastly, we will have a sneak preview of GK Chesterton St. Thomas Aquinas, which has a lot of St Francis in his descriptions. We plan to have at the beginning of the school year a series by Dr. Jason Read, a philosophy professor at Divine Word Seminary in Epworth, Iowa. He will teach us "How to Think Like a Catholic," and this text will be a reference book for the Thomistic (Thomas Aquinas) way of thinking. We will make our world a better place for this putting on of the mind of Christ. (fb)

KMMK 88.7 Kolbe Konnection episode 122 on July 4, 2025, with guest Fr. Dennis Miller, Pastor of St. Patrick Parish, and host Tony May, OFS, who with Susan May, OFS, Co-Manage KMMK. HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!! We talked about the unfortunate separated election held to approve gambling in Cedar Rapids. How people thought for sure after that approval, that it would fail the Iowa Gambling Commission, due to taking business away from the Riverside Casino & Golf Resort in Riverside, Iowa, South of Iowa City. However, it survived that scrutiny. A quick comparison of the pontificates of Pope Leo XVIV and Pope Francis on the topic of the grant of a Latin Mass permission in a non-National parish (no boundaries). Bishop Sis in charge of the area including Bryon-College Station, petitioned Pope Leo XVIV for an exception, which he was granted. We also reiterated parts of American History that have been rediscovered recently. 1) The deathbed conversion of George Washington to Catholicism. 2) The appearance of a Lady who laid out to George Washington the entire outlay of the war for independence with England, including such things as the heavy fog on the Potomac which allowed an undetected crossing in a strategic war advantage. Related to this was compared this to the deathbed conversion of the Sultan of the Saracins (Islamic) in the days of St. Francis. Francis literally went behind enemy lines to dialogue with the Sultan. On his was, a lady of the night approached Francis who wanted to go to bed with him. He agreed and prepared a bed of fire, which he offered her to enter with him, which she did not. Francis challenged the Sultan or one of his followers to a trial by fire as well. There were no takers. The Sultan, knowing that Francis had Truth on his side (the modern term Islamic is seeker of truth), knew that converting was the correct thing to do, but could not for political reasons and his position. However, after Francis' death, came the Sultan's time to enter his eternity. Two of Francis' "Order of Penitents," moved by the Holy Spirit, sought out the dying Sultan, and offered him once again, the conversion, which he accepted. (fb)