• If you’ll be in the NYC area next Tuesday, December 17th, come to the 10th Annual Cardinal Dolan Christmas Special! Email bustedhalo@thecatholicchannel.org to inquire!
• Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, CFR, talks about Ascension’s new podcast for 2025, Rosary in a Year!
• Facebook Live was not working earlier today, so Fr. Dave answers Advent questions live during the show, including one about advent wreaths- here is his favorite blessing for an advent wreath and here is editor-in chief Jen Sawyer’s favorite blessing!

• Dr. Natalie King joins to discuss her new book, “Intensive Caring: A Practical Handbook for Catholics about Serious Illness and End-of-Life Care“
• If you’ll be in the NYC area next Tuesday, December 17th, come to the 10th Annual Cardinal Dolan Christmas Special! Email bustedhalo@thecatholicchannel.org to inquire!
• Awesome Pope Francis: Here’s the article about his new fully electric Popemobile
• News in the Pews: Here are the vestments from the Notre Dame reopening
• It’s Advent!! Check out the 2024 InstaAdvent Photo Challenge now and the Advent Calendar (but you can’t click on each day just yet)! Check out all of Busted Halo’s Advent resources here!
• Coming in February – Father Dave will be speaking at the LA Religious Education Congress in Anaheim, CA! More details to come, but check out this link for more and to register for the weekend.

• If you’ll be in the NYC area next Tuesday, December 17th, come to the 10th Annual Cardinal Dolan Christmas Special! Email bustedhalo@thecatholicchannel.org to inquire!
• Awesome Pope Francis: Here’s the article about short homilies that Fr. Dave and Team BH discussed
• It’s Advent!! Check out the 2024 InstaAdvent Photo Challenge now and the Advent Calendar (but you can’t click on each day just yet)! Check out all of Busted Halo’s Advent resources here!
• Coming in February – Father Dave will be speaking at the LA Religious Education Congress in Anaheim, CA! More details to come, but check out this link for more and to register for the weekend.

Prayer Requests

• Silvana: For her husband Frank who is in the ER currently while in the
• Fr. Dave: For fellow Paulist Fr. Ruben in Austin who had a heart issue earlier last month and now a car accident
• Brett: Shares Matt’s prayer in thanksgiving for his basketball team’s success. In thanksgiving for his wife Brit as she steadily recovers from her scooter accident
• Derek: For his mother-in-law Maria who is 81 and battling her 4th round of cancer, and for his daughter Paulina who is expecting twins
• Patti: For her son Vincent who is battling drug addiction, but may be turning a corner after a positive men’s Christian event this past weekend
• Verla: For her daughter Kim who is pregnant and the repose of the soul of her father Verle
• Rich: For himself as he has prostate surgery scheduled and for 8-year-old Zander who had a successful surgery but still needs more
• Krista: For herself and her family as everyone has a cold in the house right now
• Kathy: For Christie who has stage 4 cancer. For Kim whose husband has blood cancer. For Anita whose husband has dementia. For Barbara whose husband has dementia. For herself as she seeks to give support to her friends in the best way possible.
• Jennifer: For her marriage
• Kathy: For Jim
• Rosie: For her grandson Landon

• We thank you for your support of Busted Halo Ministries on Giving Tuesday!  your donation will be triple-matched. The first 50 donors during tonight’s show (6-8pm ET) will also get the 2024 Busted Halo Ornament! DONATE HERE!
• It’s Advent!! Check out the 2024 InstaAdvent Photo Challenge now and the Advent Calendar (but you can’t click on each day just yet)! Check out all of Busted Halo’s Advent resources here!
• Anthony DeStefano tells us about his new kids book “Christmas in Heaven” which helps children dealing with grief around the holiday season