TV Picks 01.10.16

SUNDAY, Jan. 10, 3:30am, live

Feast of the Baptism of the Lord

EWTN Pope Francis will celebrate Mass in the Sistine Chapel and baptize babies.

Re-airs 11:30am.

 

SUNDAY, Jan. 10, 6pm

Yours, Mine and Ours

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES This family comedy is based on the real-life story of two widowed people, one with eight children and the other with 10, who married and then had a baby of their own. Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball and Van Johnson star. Advisory: A-1, TV-PG.

 

MONDAY, Jan. 11, 1:30am

The Catholic Church: Builder of Civilization

EWTN Host Thomas Woods Jr. is a convert and Ivy League-educated historian and political analyst. In this episode, “The Galileo Files,” Woods explodes anti-Catholic myths about the case of Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and shows that the Church and science are rightly allies.

 

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 13-17, various

Father Spitzer’s Universe

EWTN In the new installment of this program, Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer answers viewer questions on a wide range of subjects, including reason, faith, suffering, virtue and the existence of God. The one-hour episodes will air: Jan. 13 at 2pm; Jan. 15 at 4am; Jan. 16 at 4pm; and Jan. 17 at 8pm.

 

THURSDAY, Jan. 14, 9pm

A Few Great Bakeries

PBS Documentary maker Rick Sebak visits bakeries from New England to the Midwest and from the South to the West and Alaska to highlight their owners and the goodies they sell.

 

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, Jan. 21-22, live

43rd Annual March for Life

EWTN “Pro-Life and Pro-Woman Go Hand-in-Hand” is the theme for this year’s March for Life in our nation’s capital on the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous abortion dictate. At 6pm Thursday is the Opening Mass of the National Prayer Vigil for Life at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, and at 7:30am Friday is the all-night vigil’s Closing Mass. Coverage of the March for Life and its preceding rally will start at 9am Friday. (Re-airs 10pm and midnight.) At 6pm, EWTN News Nightly will report on the march.

 

SATURDAY, Jan. 23, 2:30pm, live

12th Annual Walk for Life West Coast

EWTN Tens of thousands will attend this pro-life walk in downtown San Francisco to tell the city of St. Francis and all America that, as the organizers say, “Abortion does violence to women and to their children, both physically and emotionally,” and “We deserve better than abortion.” Franciscan Father Mark Mary and co-host Doug Barry will interview marchers and provide commentary. 

 

SATURDAY, Jan. 23, 5pm

2nd Annual OneLife LA

EWTN Last year’s OneLife LA pro-life march and rally in downtown Los Angeles attracted 13,000 pro-lifers. Coverage this year starts at 5pm. At 8pm will be the annual Requiem Mass for the Unborn at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

Dan Engler writes from
Santa Barbara, California.

Edward Reginald Frampton, “The Voyage of St. Brendan,” 1908, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin.

Which Way Is Heaven?

J.R.R. Tolkien’s mystic west was inspired by the legendary voyage of St. Brendan, who sailed on a quest for a Paradise in the midst and mists of the ocean.