Spirit Mornings

Spirit Catholic Radio Network

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Catholic mornings with local heart.

The gist

Spirit Mornings blends Catholic radio devotion with the loose rhythm of a live local morning program. It moves from coffee jokes and Nebraska weather to Saint of the Day reflections, school interviews, parish events, and prayers for families and communities.

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About Spirit Mornings

Spirit Mornings sounds like a Catholic morning program that still remembers it is also local radio. It is brisk, warm, and comfortable with a little mess at the edges. A segment can open with microphone trouble, coffee-room mysteries, birthday jokes, or a weather update, then turn without strain toward prayer, saints, sacraments, and parish life. That range is the point. The show treats faith as something lived in school gyms, car rides, family celebrations, business decisions, and anxious mornings when a community needs prayer. Recent episodes move through Easter-season chatter, Nebraska rain and wildfires, Divine Mercy Sunday, First Communion, confirmation, and the Saint of the Day. There are also school visits, especially the Heartland Tour stop at Archangels Catholic High School in Humphrey, where students talk about campus ministry and receiving the Holy Spirit. The show gives those small voices room. It also brings in priests and guests for blessings, Sunday Mass preparation, local Catholic events, and conversations about bringing faith into work and relationships. A discussion of His Way at Work sits beside ordinary reminders about app listening and parish schedules. Father Alex Sasse offers a blessing. Father Mark McCurcher is mentioned in connection with Divine Mercy Sunday Mass Prep. The show’s Catholic identity is explicit, but its texture is practical rather than polished. It notices the calendar, the weather, the school mascot, the luncheon time, and the family gathering after a sacrament. It can be silly. It can be reverent. It often lands somewhere tender, especially when prayers are requested for fire recovery or families carrying difficult news. Spirit Mornings is best understood as a daily companion for Catholics who want the morning to include both the local forecast and a reason to pray.

Made for: For Catholic listeners who like morning radio rooted in parish life, local schools, saints, prayer, weather, and everyday conversation. It especially fits those who want faith connected to ordinary family and community routines.

What sets it apart: Spirit Mornings stands apart by sounding genuinely local: school visits, parish names, Nebraska weather, live-broadcast hiccups, and devotional segments all occupy the same space. It feels less like a produced teaching program and more like Catholic community life happening in real time.

In their own words

Weekdays 7- 9 a.m. CT Wake up with Spirit! Weekdays from 7 – 9 a.m. CT we bring you our locally-produced Catholic morning show, Spirit Mornings, with Damian and Jen. The Spirit Mornings team brings you Catholic news, local news and weather, interviews with local priests that you know, national guests, and so much more. All centered on our aim for YOU to encounter Jesus! Contact Spirit Mornings: Damian Montez | Jen BrownOn-Air: 1-855-571-1027

As heard by us

Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Spirit Mornings connects Catholic teaching to family, education, work, and public ethics through warm conversation and practical questions.

Jen Brown and Damian Montez make Catholic life sound lived-in, moving easily from weather and family teasing to prayer, parish events, and conversations about faith in public life.

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Snow-day warnings, saint feasts, and family teasing arrive before your coffee cools.

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Jen Brown and Damian Montez to greet difficult mornings with warmth, weather sense, and affectionate ribbing
Catholic ethics made concrete through conversations about medical research, education, marriage, and work

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Catholic morning prayerSaint of the DayNebraska weather and community updatesCatholic school visitsparish events and Mass preparationEaster and Divine Mercy seasonsacraments and campus ministryfaith in work and relationships

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04-10-26 Spirit Mornings ShowApr 10, 2026

Birthday banter, family sacraments, and a warm Catholic morning with lived-in texture.

Friday morning on Spirit Mornings moves from birthday teasing into First Communion, confirmation, Divine Mercy Sunday, and the family plans that shape the day.

04-09-26 Spirit Mornings ShowApr 9, 2026

A busy Catholic morning show that turns business testimony into a plainspoken faith witness.

Spirit Mornings reads as a Catholic morning show shaped by playful host banter, Easter-season prayer, local weather, parish mentions, and a business testimony that keeps circling back to faith at work.

02-23-26 Spirit Mornings ShowFeb 23, 2026

Spirit Mornings begins with cold-weather banter and feast-day talk before easing into a plainspoken marriage story about dating with the future in mind.

Spirit Mornings starts in easy cold-weather banter and feast-day chatter about St. Polycarp, with station updates setting the table before the larger reflection arrives.

02-20-26 Spirit Mornings ShowFeb 20, 2026

Snow-day banter gives way to a grounded bioethics conversation.

Spirit Mornings on a snowy Friday stays close to the ground: snow-packed roads, windswept on-ramps, quick jokes, and the easy back-and-forth that gives the show its local Catholic-radio feel.

02-19-26 Spirit Mornings ShowFeb 19, 2026

Cold-weather banter opens into a grounded, faith-filled look at homeschool life and parish connection.

Spirit Mornings opens with Jen Brown and Damian Montez trading jokes about the first cold snap and the awkward business of pulling coats, gloves, and hats back into rotation after several t-shirt days.

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