Rosary Army's Greg and Jennifer now to be on Sirius Radio

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CONYERS—Greg and Jennifer Willits are moving out of their “cloffice” and into the homes of hundreds of thousands of potential listeners.

Wednesday, Sept. 3, the Willitses, founders of the Conyers-based Rosary Army, will officially kick off “The Catholics Next Door With Greg and Jennifer Willits,” which will air from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday on The Catholic Channel (Channel 159) of Sirius XM satellite radio.

Rosary Army, a nonprofit organization, began as an apostolate dedicated to teaching others how to make, pray and give away free, all-twine knotted rosaries. Though still committed to its original purpose, the organization soon grew into a more technologically advanced form of outreach.

It all began with podcasts—online radio shows that listeners can download from the Rosary Army Web site and listen to on their MP3 players or computers. Because of space limitations in their home, Greg and Jennifer would record the podcasts in the closet of their master bedroom, which affectionately became known as the “cloffice”—a sort of hybrid closet/office.

But the popularity of those podcasts landed Greg and Jennifer in the national spotlight. And the people at Sirius were paying attention.

“Over the three plus years that we’ve been producing our podcast, we’ve had a few inquiries from different radio stations about the possibility of repackaging the Rosary Army podcast as a radio program that would be played on regular terrestrial radio,” Greg said.

Through their Rosary Army apostolate, the Willitses had come to know Lino Rulli, who hosts an afternoon drive-time show on The Catholic Channel on Sirius. Rulli mentioned that his boss, Joseph Zwilling, communications director of the Archdiocese of New York, which sponsors The Catholic Channel, was looking for new shows.

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