Mary's Touch

At this weekends Mary's Touch Radio Program with our host Alexis Walkenstein and special guest Christin Jezak. Christin is a Hollywood actress, Ladies Keepin' It Real webseries creator, Person-to-Person: A Mother Teresa Project One-Woman Show extraordinaire! She is also a Pauline Cooperator, and a lover of Our Blessed Mother and Jesus.

This weekend we have an amazing story on this week's Mary's Touch Radio Program. Eric LeMarque is an international best-selling author of two books and inspirational speaker sharing his message of hope throughout the world. This former professional, Olympic, world-champion ice hockey player is additionally, one of the most famous, unrelenting and compelling survivors in history. On February 6th, 2004, Eric, an expert snowboarder, set off for the top of 12,000-foot Mammoth Mountain in California's vast Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. Wearing only a long sleeve shirt, a thin wool hat, the shells of his snowboarding pants and a light-weight jacket-with only four pieces of gum for food-he soon found himself chest-high in snow, plunging into the wilderness. By nightfall he knew he was in a fight for his life. Surviving eight-days in sub-freezing temperatures, he would earn the name, 'The Miracle Man' by stunned National Guard Black Hawk Chopper rescuers. His survival is...

This weekend we have an amazing story on this week's Mary's Touch Radio Program. Rosemarie Holliger Costello, catholic wife, mother and relative of Ven. Fulton J. Sheen - the Emmy Award Winning New York Bishop on track for Sainthood. She earned her BA in Piano Performance of the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown New Jersey, where her late mom and sisters attended. She went to graduate study at Teachers College, Colombia University. She and her husband were married at St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1983, where her sisters and her parents were also married there. Her husband Brian was a pilot in the Navy, they moved all over with their 6 children and she taught piano everywhere. She's currently the music director at Lutheran Pre-School at Edmond, Oklahoma. Rosemarie shares how her parents met and personal stories about her cousin Ven. Sheen.

This weekend we are replaying the Mark Matthews story on this week's Mary's Touch Radio Program. Born and raised on the Canadian prairies, Mark Matthews resides in Los Angeles and works in the visual effects industry. As a research and development veteran of DreamWorks Animation his work has given more fire to explosions, fluff to hair and jiggle to bellies in everything from "Kung Fu Panda" to "Shrek Forever After". He has over 22 feature film credits, a patent and two DreamWorks Technical Achievement Awards. He is founder of Bibles & Brew; Catholic men's spiritual group. He's the Hollywood undercover missionary a monthly segment on Salt & Light Radio. Mark leverages a background in engineering physics specializing in volume rendering and liquid simulation. He developed Amorphous, an award winning volume rendering system giving look equivalence between interactive GPU previews and final CPU renders. He is currently the lead developer of Rap...

This weekend we have an amazing story on this week's Mary's Touch Radio Program. What happens when a six-year-old boy in Kenya is abandoned by his family and left to raise himself on the streets? MULLY is no ordinary rags-to-riches tale. This week we will listen to Dr. Charles Mully, whose unlikely stratospheric rise to wealth and power leaves him questioning his own existence, searching for meaning in life. Against the better judgment of family and community, MULLY sets out to enrich the fate of orphaned children across Kenya. Jeopardizing his own life and the security of his family, Charles Mully risks everything and sets in motion a series of events that is nothing short of astonishing. MULLY - www.mullymovie.com

This weekend we are re-airing a wonderful story on Mary's Touch Radio Program. Rebecca Frech is a devout Catholic wife, mom of nine children...two saints...seven in training. She is an avid political junkie, able debater, aspiring home-maker, amazing friend, homeschooling guru, a writing addict, public-speaker, a CrossFit coach, managing editor for The Catholic Conspiracy, regular contributor for the National Catholic Register, and an advocate for staying true to the person God created you to be. She shares her Catholic journey growing up, feeling left out, angry with God, and the miracles of novenas - Our Lady Undoer of Knots. Rebecca is the author of "Teaching In Your Tiara - A Homeschooling Book for the Rest of Us". Teaching in Your Tiara is a soup-to-nuts homeschooling book that walks you through the first years - deciding that home education is right for your family, choosing the right curriculum, understanding learning styles, not raising socially awkward kids...