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Making it Personal with Bishop William Joensen

Making it Personal with Bishop William Joensen

著者： Bishop William Joensen Jeanne Thill
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Bishop William Joensen of the Diocese of Des Moines gets personal with his guests discussing both their personal and spiritual life.2017-2026 Iowa Catholic Radio キリスト教 スピリチュアリティ 聖職・福音主義
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  • How to become a Catholic Priest: Answering the Call with Connor Lynch - 09/05/2026

    How to become a Catholic Priest: Answering the Call with Connor Lynch - 09/05/2026
    2026/09/05
    Bishop William Joensen and co-host Jeanne Thill welcome Connor Lynch, seminarian for the Diocese of Des Moines and a son of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Indianola, who is studying at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. Connor is set to be ordained a transitional deacon on October 1, and this conversation catches him on the cusp of it. Bishop's Opening — Labor Day Weekend and the Week Ahead Bishop Joensen opens with a Labor Day reflection on the dignity of work, giving thanks for tradesmen, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, and linemen, along with teachers and students two weeks into the new school year. He notes several diocesan events on the calendar: Confirmation at Christ the King Parish on the south side of Des MoinesLabor Day: a Mass marking 70 years of religious life for Sister Marilyn Jean Hagedorn, CHM (Congregation of the Humility of Mary) at St. Pius X Parish in Urbandale, honoring her witness to peace and justice and her call to poverty of spiritTuesday, September 8 (the Nativity of Mary): the arrival of two missionary priests from Nigeria who will take up ministry in Shelby County and five other parishes, following an extended visa processAn upcoming pilgrimage to Poland with 55 diocesan pilgrims The Bishop closes the segment on St. Teresa of Calcutta, reading from her private correspondence on the interior darkness she carried for decades — the hidden cross that became, as he puts it, the very spring of her sanctity. Segment Two — Cynicism, Wisdom, and the Turn Connor talks about returning to Rome as a senior brother to fellow Des Moines seminarians, including Michael Posegate, and about showing them the city's churches, shrines, and coffee bars. He names honestly the arc many seminarians travel: initial wonder, then a season of cynicism after his first year in Rome, then a turn toward wisdom. What made the turn possible, he says, was relationship — coming to know his formation faculty as people and building real friendships with his brother seminarians. Cynicism, in his framing, objectifies an institution; friendship restores the persons within it. Asked by the Bishop to define wisdom, Connor points to humility, a conscientious grasp of the human condition, and words that land as true because they are lived rather than abstract. Segment Two (cont.) — The Call Connor recounts a high school marked by soccer, his parents' hobby farm, and passing considerations of ag engineering, nursing, and the Air Force Academy. The first real jolt came when Father Chris Fontanini asked whether he had considered the priesthood — a question that, in Connor's words, rang through him like a bell. He ran from it spiritually for a couple of years. The turning point came on a mission trip to El Paso with STAT (St. Thomas Aquinas Teens), where the theme was God's Will for Your Life. Connor asked God for a sign and received an overwhelming experience of love at Mass the next day. When he spoke it aloud in his small group, the weight lifted. Over that week, ten to fifteen people independently asked him whether he'd thought about becoming a priest. Father Reed Flood was on the trip and coached him through making the phone call home. He also describes the value of manual labor — bagging groceries and working the bottle room at Hy-Vee, night stocking shelves, and a summer hauling concrete for a demolition crew in Ankeny alongside his cousin. Tangible work, tangible change. Segment Two (cont.) — Ordination Details The ordination will be an evening Mass at St. Peter's Basilica, celebrated at the Holy Spirit window, a newer custom for the North American College. Connor describes rounding the main altar afterward to find the basilica empty — an experience unlike any other. Eighteen men total will be ordained. Family, friends, and a diocesan pilgrimage group are expected to attend. Diocesan priests will be gathered for their annual workshop in Iowa City that day and will lift Connor up at Mass. Segment Three — Remembering Alex Connor speaks about his brother Alex Lynch, who battled cancer from age 16 and died May 8, 2026, at 23, at the family's farm home in Indianola. Alex graduated from Indianola High School, earned an Eagle Scout rank, and completed a finance degree from Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas — receiving his diploma in a special ceremony less than a day before his death. His Funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Thomas Aquinas in Indianola. Connor shares the family's conviction that God was working through Alex's illness: a cousin estranged from the family reached out to reconcile at the very hour Alex's first biopsy confirmed cancer. He describes a brotherhood that deepened through the disease — days spent beside Alex's hospital bed, shoulder massages Alex insisted on giving to relieve Connor's stress, and repeated occasions when Connor, in Rome or at seminary, felt an unaccountable weight on his heart, called home, and found Alex struggling. He calls the bond ...
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  • From Storm Chaser to Shepherd: Fr. Ross Caniglia on Weather, Music, and the Call to Priesthood - 08/29/2026

    From Storm Chaser to Shepherd: Fr. Ross Caniglia on Weather, Music, and the Call to Priesthood - 08/29/2026
    2026/08/29
    Bishop Joensen and Jeanne Thill open with high school football underway across the diocese — Valley and Dowling played the night before — and September weather moving in. The Bishop previews the Bishop's Celebration of Education, held that evening at the Catholic Pastoral Center in downtown Des Moines, lifting up all 16 Catholic schools in the diocese alongside the Catholic Tuition Organization (CTO). Father Ross Caniglia is the evening's honored speaker. The Bishop also runs through his week: confirmations at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Indianola and Sacred Heart Parish in West Des Moines; a deanery gathering of priests at St. Edward Church in Afton, near Creston; another deanery meeting at Ss. Peter and Paul Parish in Atlantic; and Catechesis of the Good Shepherd programs underway there and at St. Mary Parish in Shenandoah, where Father Jason Lee is pastor. He shares a lunch conversation with Bishop Ambrose Puthenveettil of the Diocese of Kottapuram in Kerala, India, and notes the Dowling Catholic All-School Mass, where students recognized Father David Polich on his 50th anniversary of ordination — Father Polich was ordained for the Diocese of Des Moines in 1976. On the memorials of Saints Monica and Augustine, Bishop Joensen reflects on Monica's wisdom despite little formal education, and her consolation for parents whose children have wandered from the faith: those who are seeking and have not yet found are not without God. He closes the segment with Augustine on preaching — that the words of any preacher sound empty unless the inner Master, Christ himself, is teaching within the listener. Segment two: Council Bluffs, weather, and a chalkboard forecast Father Caniglia was born in 1988 and raised in Council Bluffs, one of four children, including an identical twin brother now living in the Omaha area. His mother worked as a nurse; his father practiced law in Council Bluffs. Both parents remain active in their parish and in Serra vocations work. His parents, Phil and Rena, are described by Bishop Joensen as pillars of the faith in the Council Bluffs community. His mother — a former All-State violinist who grew up in Boone — introduced him to the family piano, which had come from his grandmother's house. He sang in show choir and concert choir at St. Albert in Council Bluffs under a longtime Council Bluffs music teacher who had built the vocal program from the ground up, and he continued piano lessons through college. The weather obsession started in fifth grade, watching WOWT 6 News in Omaha. He kept a chalkboard in his bedroom, drew Iowa and Nebraska with fronts and high-pressure symbols, and delivered forecasts to his patient parents. Classmates asked him for snow-day predictions. After graduating from Creighton University in 2010, he went storm chasing with a graduate student and watched a large tornado pass roughly a quarter mile away. He worked as a television meteorologist in Sioux City from 2010 to 2013, hired into the weekend weather shift while also doing news reporting midweek and filling in on weekday shows. He explains the newsroom hierarchy — weekday evenings first, weekday mornings second, weekends last — and notes that weather has migrated to the top of newscasts because ratings show it is the number one reason people tune in. The voice injury and the turn toward God Late in his senior year of high school, after years of heavy singing, Father Caniglia developed voice issues affecting both speaking and singing. He describes it plainly as a season of suffering — physical and mental — that carried into college and left him unable to sing as he once could. He still deals with it to a degree today. The disruption cracked open the plan he thought he had: meteorology, settled and certain. In its place came questions about God's existence, the purpose of life, and what he was actually for. Segment three: Augustine at Creighton, Trinity Heights, and seminary The turn came in a philosophy class at Creighton, where he read Augustine's Confessions as a sophomore — a spiritual awakening he credits as the impetus for taking a possible priestly vocation seriously. Bishop Joensen shares his own connection: he once led a January-term course to Sicily and Rome, always stopping at Ostia to read aloud, from a window ledge, the passage where Monica and Augustine speak of ultimate things and Monica sets aside her fear of death. Living and working in Sioux City shaped which diocese was calling him. He points to the example of good preaching and evident love for the faith among the priests around him, including Father Gary Snyder, and to his parents' steady insistence on doing the small things and persevering. A turning point came at Trinity Heights in Sioux City, where a colleague from the television station — someone who had drifted from his faith — first brought him. The beauty of the place moved him, and he asked someone there for the name of a spiritual director. He entered ...
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  • Freer Men: Duncan Kyhl and Parker Corwin on Silence, Sacrifice, and Saying Yes to the Call – 08/22/2026

    Freer Men: Duncan Kyhl and Parker Corwin on Silence, Sacrifice, and Saying Yes to the Call – 08/22/2026
    2026/08/22
    Segment 1: Iowa State Fair send-off, diocesan roundup, and welcoming the guests Bishop Joensen and Jean Thill send off the final weekend of the 2026 Iowa State Fair (Aug. 13–23), highlighting the Iowa Catholic Radio booth and the availability of confession from priests and deacons on-site.A look at the week's saints leading into this Aug. 22 broadcast: St. John Eudes (Aug. 19), St. Bernard of Clairvaux (Aug. 20), and St. Pius X (Aug. 21), followed by today's feast of the Queenship of Mary — secondary patroness of the Diocese of Des Moines.Bishop Joensen previews the formal installation of Father Rodrigo Mayorga Landeros as pastor of Christ the King Parish this Sunday, Aug. 23, plus confirmations at Sacred Heart Parish in West Des Moines, and next week's Bishop's Celebration of Catholic Schools, which will honor Father Ross Caniglia of the Diocese of Sioux City — a Council Bluffs native — as speaker.Duncan Kyhl and Parker Corwin join the show having just finished the Propaedeutic Year. Parker opens with his story: growing up in Des Moines, K–8 at St. Francis of Assisi, Dowling Catholic High School, and a period away from the faith at the University of Iowa before landing at St. Theresa Parish as an adult. Segment 2: Two paths to the seminary Duncan shares his roots: St. Pius X Parish in Urbandale, Dowling Catholic High School (where he ran cross country with Parker), a degree in accounting and computer science from Creighton University, and several years working in downtown Chicago before entering seminary.Both men discuss discerning their vocations out of serious relationships and the difficult, grace-filled process of letting go to answer God's call.Parker recounts four and a half years as a sales consultant at Wells Fargo in Des Moines, and how conversations with coworkers planted early seeds of his vocation.Duncan opens up about his family's faith, his three brothers, and his brother John, who works at the Hy-Vee in Urbandale and has been a joyful witness to him.The two describe the Propaedeutic Year itself: human formation, group therapy and counseling, a six-day "tech fast" cycle, and the house motto agere sequitur esse — do what you're doing. Bishop Joensen connects the theme of digital disconnection to Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, on preserving human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence.Wednesday morning silence and four- to five-day silent retreats round out a rule of life aimed at deeper prayer and fraternity. Segment 3: Serving the poor, in Phoenix and in Des Moines Duncan spent January and the first half of the summer at the Andre House of Hospitality in Phoenix, a ministry of the Congregation of Holy Cross named for St. André Bessette, serving hundreds of meals a night to people experiencing homelessness. Learn more at AndreHouse.org.Parker completed a summer internship with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Des Moines, working alongside CEO Steve Havemann and visiting parish "conferences" that provide direct home-visit assistance across the metro. Learn more at SVdPDSM.org.Duncan reflects on a 30-day retreat and the decision to begin with a new spiritual director as he moves into major theology studies at the University of St. Thomas.Bishop Joensen closes with a blessing over both seminarians as they continue toward the priesthood for the Diocese of Des Moines. Learn more at dmdiocese.org/vocations. #MakingItPersonal #BishopJoensen #JeanThill #DioceseOfDesMoines #IowaCatholicRadio #CatholicPriesthood #Seminarian #PropaedeuticYear #CatholicVocations #DiscernmentStory #SaintPaulSeminary #CatholicPodcast #QueenshipOfMary #IowaStateFair #FaithJourney Episode Contributors Host: Bishop William Joensen, Jeanne Thill, Duncan Kyhl, Parker Corwin Listen Live · Program Schedule · Our StationsLINKSYou can follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Tiktok! More on our website.If you would like to support Iowa Catholic Radio you can donate Here! More from Iowa Catholic Radio:Sunday Dive with Katie PatrizioMan Up! with Joe StopulosCatholic Women Now with Chris Magruder and Julie NelsonThe Uncommon Good with Bo Bonner and Dr. Bud MarrBe Not Afraid with Fr. Fabian Moncada and Fr. Bruce RiebeBe Not Afraid en Español con el P. Fabián MoncadaMaking it Personal with Bishop William JoensenFaith and Family Finance with Gregory WaddleThe Great Men of the Bible with Joe Stopulos Liturgy & DevotionsThe Daily Gospel Reflection with Fr. Nick SmithThe Daily Mass from St. Francis of AssisiThe Daily Mass from St. Pius XThe Daily Mass from St. TheresaSunday Mass from the Basilica of Saint JohnWant to support your favorite show? Click Here Iowa Catholic Radio - Connecting People to Christ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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