Author of Book About Rosary For Teens Will Appear on CatholicTV During Marian Month of October

Author of Book About Rosary For Teens Will Appear on CatholicTV During Marian Month of October

On Oct 19th, Maureen Provencher, author of “Mysteries in My Hands” will appear on the live CatholicTV talk show “This is the Day”. Maureen will discuss her book about the Rosary which she wrote for teens.

Her interview comes during the Marian month of October, which is dedicated to the rosary.

This is the Day airs at 10:30AM ET at CatholicTV.com and on CatholicTV cable outlets. The show is rebroadcast at 7:30PM and other times during the week.

Mysteries in My Hands is a book for teens who want to learn how to pray the rosary. The book discusses how the rosary came to be and includes scripture references and quotes from Pope John Paul II's Rosarium Virginis Mariae. The prayers of the rosary are also in the book as well as a detailed outline of the beads.

The book also includes reflective writings from adults and young people, which introduce readers to the importance of the rosary today.

Maureen P. Provencher has served professionally in the young ministry field in New England for more than fifteen years, in parish, regional, and diocesan settings. She contributed to "A Listening Session for Young People" in the book Creating Safe and Sacred Places (Saint Mary's Press) and to the Saint Mary's Press Web site with an article called "Walking with Teens in Hope." In addition, she has contributed to several issues of the World Youth Day resource manual (National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry) and has been a presenter at various events, institutes, and conferences. Maureen holds a degree in religious studies from Saint Michael's College, Colchester, Vermont.

On October 3rd, Pope Benedict spoke of the Rosary and prayed that “daily meditation of the mysteries of Christ in union with Mary, the 'praying Virgin', might fortify us all in faith, hope and charity."

Jason Evert Says ‘Teen Sex Rates Are Dropping’ During CatholicTV Interview

On December 8th, Jason Evert, a renowned chastity speaker and author was interviewed by Father Robert Reed, Director and Kevin Nelson, Senior Producer of the CatholicTV Network live on the CatholicTV talk show “This is the Day”.

During his interview, Evert made several “eye-opening” statements about chastity, and the receptiveness of the chastity message by teens. Speaking about young people, Evert said, “They’re eating it [the chastity message] up like ants on a birthday cake because it’s not a bunch of rules so you don’t go to hell, it’s letting you be liberated so you can love for the right reasons.”

Some people “think that the kids are going to throw tomatoes at you, but “After speaking for 10 years to over a million kids, we haven’t had one disruptive audience, and we’ve been to correctional facilities and inner city schools.”

In November, “we gave a chastity talk at the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC) and over 20,000 teens gave a standing ovation in response to a chastity talk.” said Evert.

“Teen sexual activity rates have been dropping consistently for the last 10-15 years. The majority of high school kids are virgins. There’s a lot of good news out there, but it’s not often portrayed in the media.”

Evert continued saying, “Chastity is not the elimination of sexual desire, it’s the perfection of it. It’s where you place love above the disordered desire to lust and use. If you really understand the church’s teachings for what they are, it’s not repressive, it’s liberating.”



“People say the culture glorifies, sex. No, culture doesn’t. It’s the Church that glorifies sex. Only in the Church’s teachings of human sexuality can they see the glory of God’s plan. The problem is not that the world is glorifying sex, the problem is that world is debasing sex so that you don’t see the full beauty of it.” said Evert during this interview.

See the interview now http://www.catholictv.com/shows/default.aspx?seriesID=72&videoID=129