Learn how St. Vincent de Paul serves Bryan–College Station through quiet, personal charity. Hear how home visits, a food pantry, and a thrift store become hope in hard times.

Host Judy Comeaux talks with Bob Chronister, president of the local St. Vincent de Paul Society. Bob explains how volunteers make “home visits” to listen, pray, and offer practical help with rent and utilities—often within a week. He outlines the Society’s structure across five parishes, its roots and rules, and how funding comes through parish collections, private donors, grants, United Way, and a well-run thrift store. You’ll also hear about the private food pantry, the furniture ministry (beds for kids and donated household items), and annual Thanksgiving baskets and Christmas gift drives sourced from families identified on visits. Bob highlights the constant need for volunteers, the reality of the working poor and fixed-income seniors, and the ministry of prayer that accompanies every encounter. If you’re local, there are simple on-ramps—from answering phones to delivering checks.

What part of this mission speaks most to your heart?

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Catholic counseling: how therapy and the sacraments can truly work together for healing. In this episode, LPC Amanda Kapchinski offers hope on wounds, shame, and scrupulosity—beyond treating faith as a mere coping skill.

Host Kevin Kapchinski welcomes his wife, Amanda Kapchinski—Licensed Professional Counselor and Director of Pastoral Counseling at St. Mary’s Catholic Center (College Station)—for a grounded conversation on integrating mental health care with Catholic faith. Amanda shares how evidence-based practice and the primacy of relationship never contradict truth, and why deep, lasting healing unfolds in the safety of being seen, not just in coping. They explore common barriers (wounds, shame, avoidance), how counseling can complement Confession (not replace the sacraments), and ways EMDR and relational support help people get “unstuck.” Amanda explains scrupulosity (moral OCD) and the freedom that comes from trust rather than certainty, offers a 30-day challenge (sleep well and show up), and addresses sexuality, pornography, and lifelong chastity with clarity and compassion. Along the way she describes praying with clients when appropriate, inviting the intercession of the saints, and keeping scope and ethics clear. What has helped you move from white-knuckling self-reliance to trusting the Lord in relationship? Support & follow RED-C: Donate: https://redcradio.org/donate Email list: https://redcradio.org/subscribe YouTube (video): https://youtu.be/HMtaxZ9dyK0 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redc.catholicmedia/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/redcradio RED-C App: https://redcradio.org/app

Deacon Mike Beauvais and Msgr. Leonard Pivonka explore how truth, goodness, beauty, and love reveal God—and reorder our desires, choices, and culture.

They unpack the transcendentals as real signposts that awaken the soul and call for conversion of mind and heart. Drawing on Scripture, the saints (especially Augustine), and lived experience, they distinguish fleeting pleasure from lasting joy, connect freedom with humility and the moral law, and explain why love always involves sacrifice. They address “your truth/my truth,” conscience and judgment, and the prophetic clarity of Humanae Vitae, contrasting secular confusion with the Church’s perennial wisdom in worship, art, and teaching. If you’re grappling with objective truth in a relativistic age, this conversation offers first principles and hopeful next steps for living them at home, work, and parish life. Follow the show, rate & review in your podcast app, and share it.

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