Oct. 23, 2025

We talk about How people can tell your a devout Catholic. What actions do you do that show you are devout?

We talk about How people can tell your a devout Catholic. What actions do you do that show you are devout?
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Do you have more than one rosary?  Have you ever genuflected going in a movie theatre.  Devout Catholics develop habits and routines, that by habit, they do things in regular settings with out thinking.  Do you have what some think is a lot of kids, and are they all named after Saints?
Today is just a fun light hearted discussion of being Catholic.

You can read Stephanie blog on her YouTube channel - In the Service of the Queen - where she talks about the blessed Mary     https://www.youtube.com/@InTheServiceOfTheQueen

You can catch Jeff on numorous podcasts   https://coolcasts.cooolmedia.com/

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Wait and go the day night sounds. I gotta get

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to the stuff bugs, get some magic beesy on my way,

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magical as was my bone. We don't know, says days.

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No, that that's today. Hi, everyone, welcome to these days

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where we talk about these days from my Catholic perspective,

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I am Jeff steph Ira. Things out in Tennessee.

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They are moving fast, Jeff, just launching being launched, as

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you know, and they're good. It's actually a pretty day

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here today. It's a little warmer and the sun's out.

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Me and my dog went we went to this new

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little airstream, like silver, old fashioned airstream kind of I

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guess you would call it a food truck, but it

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looks like one of those traveling airstreams, and it's like silver,

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and it's near my house and I normally don't go

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get coffee out, but we went and got coffee this

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morning and that was fun. They gave him a pop cup.

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What was what was in it?

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It's just whip cream. They just fill a cup with

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whip cream. But the dogs love it, you know, and

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like we we don't do that every day. That's not

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probably very good for him, but that was that was

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our fun little morning. How are you? How are things

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up in Colorado?

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Doing good? Hopefully today? I don't know, We've I don't

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know if the devil is sneezing or what. But man,

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we've had some really cold win the last couple of

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hard I mean, it's like, man, it's been Yeah, it's

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been miserable, kicking up everything yet change, Yeah, definitely true.

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So you have anything mystical happened since we chatted last.

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Well, I want to give a little teaser. We're not

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going to say too much about it, but God is

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just so amazing and so good. So years ago, you know,

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Jeff and I are about to launch a very holy

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spirit driven new endeavor kind of a new entrepreneurial thing

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aside from the podcast, and it came about well years ago.

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God God leads up to things. So when I kind

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of went through my first you know, my parents had

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just died and I had to move, I had to

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get a job, I kind of was going through a

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similar season as now, and just when I started to

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long story short, right when I started to feel like

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the wind underneath my wings again like started. I got

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a job, I got a place to live, and I

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started feeling like the Holy Spirit really coming on me

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and just building me up and saying, let's go, you know,

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let's take off, let's let's live your purpose basically, and

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I heard him say declare, like it just came into

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my spirit to declare this out loud. And I said,

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I'm going to write, and I said it with force

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and power. I said, I'm going to write cool stories

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about cool people and travel the world doing cool things.

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And it wasn't a week later that I had met

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a guy who owned Cool People Care. It's like a nonprofit,

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and we sat down and did an interview and that

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basically launched my freelance writing career. I submitted that to

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National Lifestyles. They didn't even publish that. They said, we

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can't really use this right now, but they assigned me

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to other articles that they did publish, and so there

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I was taken off and back into the Actually, that

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was my first time never be published in a major publication,

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and all because you know, the Holy Spirit spoke to me,

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You're going to write cool stories about cool people. And

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then you know, when you reached out your your media

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name is cool Media. It's a cool media, right right. Yeah,

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So when I saw that and you reached out about

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doing a Catholic podcast. Immediately, the Holy Spirit kind of

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nudged me and it was like, Okay, here's another here's

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another cool thing you're gonna do. And he's just been

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just talking to us about, you know, the next steps,

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the next steps of what we're gonna do that's just

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gonna glorify him and it's just gonna be something cool.

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That's all I'm gonna say for right now.

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Yeah, And it's fun and exciting and all that kind

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of stuff and a new adventure and a new faith

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and a new trust too that you know, we're being

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led in the right.

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Way right and he's using this job. You know, you

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don't ever underestimate the way we've got shows up in

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your life and now and the way he's moving. Because

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it was me working at the YMCA and one of

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these marketing guys that I work with, these twenty year

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old guys that are majoring in entreprenepreneurship and marketing and

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business that gave us the idea. But then I was like, Okay,

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now what do we do with this idea and what

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way do we make it specific to us? And how

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do we make it cool. Basically, it's what we were deciding,

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and you and I were immediately on the same page

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and immediately knew what we were supposed to do. So

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pretty cool.

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Exactly now, at the end of last show, I teased

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it that this show we were going to talk about

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things that Catholics don't even realize are part of the

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Catholic Church. Well, I started looking at it, and I'm

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not even sure if that whole story was written by

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a Catholic, to be honest with you. So, I mean,

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they had some pretty interesting things in there, but there's

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a couple of them I'm not so sure are real.

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So I have to do a little research on it

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to make sure before we start talking about it. It's

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kind of like I'm nuts here. So I thought, how

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about we just have fun today.

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Yeah, have fun and throw the questions at me. I'm

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curious to know if I'll even know the answers to.

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Okay, so this one, we'll do that on the next show,

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but this one that it might be kind of fun.

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It's it's kind of a silly story. You probably have

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some silly stories to go with it. It's how to

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tell if somebody is a devout Catholic.

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Okay, yeah, and like what's the.

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Barometer you'll see as we go. It's just kind of

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like little things that like oh yeah, okay, because like

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it starts off because like you came into the Catholic

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Church later, you know, you weren't a legacy and born

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into you actually had to work for it. That's why

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I think that people who become Catholic are a lot

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more devout than those that were born into it because

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we were lazy, you know, we kind of had it

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handed to it's but like I mean, the basic one

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is with us and smart new Visa signature unlimited ever.

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Got to edit that out.

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I didn't touch anything. Why did it start?

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It's the devil? Don't like this? Blessed Carlo Okasus. We

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asked for your intercession.

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How you go? Okay, So I was talking, let's see

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where were they at? So I know, well we'll just

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added all that out and all same.

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Yeah, just start over with like how do you know

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if you're a.

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Devout Catholic Because basically it starts off whatever. That's why

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I was bringing up for you. You started late ready, yep, Okay,

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So like you came into the Catholic Church later, so

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you had to earn your way in where us legacies.

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And I think that's why you guys are more devout

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because you got to actually work. We just got to

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hand it to us basically, So that kind of things.

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I think you guys actually are a lot more devout

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than us have been here originally. So, but since you

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started later, you really didn't fall for this one. But

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do you think that the first one is do you

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have a lot of children? Compared to what the rest

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of society said? So, do you think if you were

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raised into the Catholic Church and you'd gone through school

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with the Catholic and you made a Catholic by you'd

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be one of those that have five or six kids.

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No, I don't, because I think it still does. I

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think God has a plan for every person's life. And

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and I did know Catholic people who have like eleven

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twelve kids, and I know I know who you know

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people I considered it about Catholics that maybe had two

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or three or even even one. So I think it

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goes back down to God's plan for your life actually too.

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But here's where it starts to get kind of fun.

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So are all your kids named after saints.

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Probably or at least some biblical yeah, probably, or at

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least like a biblical name. Maybe not the same, but yeah.

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Once they're kind of funny, are the ones that they

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go totally old Testament David, Abraham, somebody, you know what.

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It's kind of like, you're a Catholic and you're using

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all these Jewish names, right.

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I used to work with Elijah, so that was cool,

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and I kept calling him Noah, and the funny part,

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the funny part was no I worked, so I worked

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with an Elijah and and a Jonah, and I kept

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Joanah Noah. And my friend Alicia, who's not religious at

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all that loves me to death, she'd be like, no, Stephanie,

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it's it's the way all, not the flood. It's like okay, but.

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Yeah, okay, so now now Lisa is real. If you're

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an about do you own multiple rosaries?

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Probably? Yeah? And I would say that prayer is one

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of the biggest indicators that you're devout, because if you

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really love God, you're gonna want pray a lot and

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talk to him a lot.

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Okay, do you think that none your rosary? It has

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to be blessed by a priest or do you think

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it just saying the prayers kind of almost blesses it itself.

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I think it definitely helps for something to be blessed

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by a priest, because the priest really is there in

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the person of Christ, not in the name of Christ,

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and there is a power and authority that I've seen.

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I've seen blessed rosaries make it through a lot of

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things that I'm blessed rosaries fall apart.

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Put it that way, Okay, you have at least one

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crucifix hanging in your home.

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Absolutely to have a couple eccellents, Yeah.

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Okay, do you have a statue of Mary in your yard?

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I would say yes, yeah, I don't even do they

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bless those statues and Marya's they put them out in

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the yard.

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We had ours blessed when when a priest came to

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bless our home. But yeah, I mean, unless a priest

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comes to bless your home, you're not going to take

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that heavy thing and go haul it up to the

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priest to bless like you would a rosary beat or something.

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But I think, like you know, ours was blessed when

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the priest came to bless the home. He did specifically

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also bless the statue.

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Okay, Now, this is funny because I think you talk

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about like muscle memory or something just out of habit

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and all this kind of stuff, but a large number

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of Catholics have actually admitted to doing this. Have you

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actually genu inflected in front of a movie screen going

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into movie theater?

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No? I know, haven't done that.

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I said, yeah, most of the time. You know, they

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walk into the theater and go to the il seat

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and then they genuinely it's like, oh man, god.

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They're just so used to doing that before you sit down. Right.

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It happens a lot of movie theaters and a like

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kids' performances in like elementary school when you go to

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a play or something like that.

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That's funny. I've never heard that.

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So yeah, quite a feel and actually do that. So

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do you have multiple Saint cards scattered around your house? Yeah?

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I did have a few. I probably only have like three,

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do you?

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Yeah? I do. I don't know where I get them either.

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It's it's almost like that, almost like the States. The

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Saints come in and I'll be like where did this

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come from? And then it's like okay, so then you

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read it and then it's like, well, where did this.

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Funny.

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It's usually when you open a books. It seems like

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I always use them for bookmarks. I don't know if

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that's unhealthy.

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Er I do too. I have a saint card actually

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of Saint Charbel, who was a really cool mystic monk

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in my Bible. And then I have Saint Joseph by

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my bed.

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Okay, now this one, we're not talking like going to

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Rome in the vatic and all that kind of stuff.

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But when you plan vacation, do you kind of plan

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it where you want to see the religious sights of

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that area, like, let's say, churches.

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And stuff that's been on my mind lately. I haven't

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done that in the past. My husband always planned all

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of our vacations, actually because he was such a good

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planner and a good researcher. But this time I did

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ask for the Blessed Mother to plan my vacation for me.

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I literally said, I haven't traveled in a long time.

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I've really been wanting to travel. I'm actually going today

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to get my passport because God told me to. I

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don't know what he's got. I don't know when you

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asked Mary to be your travel advisor, you don't ever

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you don't know where she's going to send you, but

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I think that's a great idea to put her in

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charge of your itinerary. And I can probably bet you'll

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end up in front of some sacred places.

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Do you only eat do you eat fish outside of LNT?

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Do you make it a year long thing? Do you

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eat what fish on Fridays outside of LNT? So it's

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not just during LINT season that.

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You not intentionally, unless it's like sushi or something like.

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I don't really like fish, to be honest, so well,

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basically I don't do that a lot.

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We Basically what it is is technically you know how

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they think you only have to you can't eat meat

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on Fridays during LNT, right, well, according to Catholic doctrine

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though that they's not they've gotten, they've been laxed, but

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it's actually still a fish that you're supposed to not

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eat meat on Fridays, right.

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And you know, I'd rather just eat a vegetarian meal,

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to be honest with you, than eat fit like I'll

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do that on Fridays and when sometimes I just want

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to eat any meat, I'm fine with vegetables.

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I don't need fish, like I know, I found a

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loop when I was young, I found a loophole. These

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just sort of vegetarian pizza.

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There you go. I could definitely get behind that.

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So you will meet meat on Fridays outside a Lantha, Yeah,

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I will. Do you have holy water on hand?

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Yes? I do?

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Is according to things? Do you keep it in your purse?

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No? But all too, all too because you never know

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the creepy people you see walking around this world. One

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quick note about the power of holy water. When I

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first became Catholic, the first scene I read was Saint

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Faustina because she's associated with divine mercy and that next

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weekend after Easter is Divine Mercy weekend. So her books

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were everywhere, her diary was everywhere. I started reading her

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diary and one of the stories in her diary she

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actually got in trouble for this, but as one of

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her sisters was dying in the convent, she said, so

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I'll never forget the power of holy water and how

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I literally saw it working because the demons were coming

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up to take her soul, which is what my friend

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father Dan talks about, like, even if you're a religious like,

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you know, Satan's going to be there to try to

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fight for your soul at the moment of your death,

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no matter how holy you were. Of course, Jesus and

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married there too. But she said she saw the demons

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coming up and gathering around the bed, and she doused

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him with holy water and they fled. And apparently you're

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not supposed to do that if you're a nun. I

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guess when the priest is doing last rites and he

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really got He scolded her for that, but she said,

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I don't She wrote it in her diary. I don't

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regret it. I saw the power of it.

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That's pretty cool. Okay, do you say amen at inappropriate times?

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I don't think so, do you No?

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That kind of sounds me more more Protestant because they say.

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It and men all the time amen to that Amen.

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I would think that Protestants. That's it. Now, this is

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kind of funny because I guess they did a thing.

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You know, those comic cons and those kind of book

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and start Star Trek and Star Wars conventions and all

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that kind of stuff. They say they can really pick

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out the Catholics because if they go up, then they say, uh,

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may the Force be with you. A Catholic would always

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go and also with you.

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That's funny. I think a big bang theory when you

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talk about comic con.

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Okay, do you make the sign of the Cross regularly?

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I do.

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Actually, it was probably about it a year or two ago,

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I think, I don't know. Maybe it was one of

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the masses where the priest was talking about the Trinity

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and all that kind of stuff, and he was saying that,

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you know, just getting the habit of saying doing the

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sign of the Cross, and you might not do it,

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and then they'll start become more and more regular. And

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he said, you'll understand that. You give a lot more clarity,

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and he goes, you know, from doing it. So I

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kind of I never did the sign of the Cross

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except you know, going in and dipping your finger and

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when you're supposed to at church. I started doing it

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and it became like almost this second nature the cross

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all the time.

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Now, that's really good. And you know, there's a story

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that in our tradition about Saint Mark demonstrating the power

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of it, especially when it's made when you're you have

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like a holy purity and an innocence about you. So

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he took there were people that had demons. You took

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a little girl in front of the crowd and asked

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her to make the Sign of the Cross, and when

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she did it, it cast out the demons and all

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those people. And this is a documented story. Like they

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a lot of people witness the power of the Sign

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of the Cross, especially because she was innocent and she

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was a child who had like childlike faith.

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Jesus really like that.

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M childlike faith will get you pretty far in life.

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I'll tell you.

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That child like it. It's just so hard to get back.

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You've gotten there a little. I don't even know if

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it's age. I think it's just mile age. You know,

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when she've gotten a couple gotten your hopes dashed a

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couple of times. It's really hard to get that child

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like faith back.

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Well, I mean yes and no. I would say it's

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impossible for us to do it on our but if

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you truly surrender your wounds and ask the Holy Spirit,

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you know, surrender your wounds to Christ and ask the

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Holy Spirit to read new your mind and render your body,

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renting your life, then God can do it. I would say, Yeah.

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Maybe that's the hardest part is once you get older,

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is the total surrender, the.

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Surrender, that's it. It's hard to surrender. But if you surrender,

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God will restore your childlike faith and trust. And he's

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working on that with me. I would say, I'm I'm

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about a little more than halfway there.

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Because I mean that child like trust. It's just fun

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to it's actually fun just to watch like those little

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kids you see, and like I think it was his

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last mass. These little girls, I don't know, probably seven

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eight years old. It was before mass started, and they've

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run out, went to the bathroom whatever. But they came

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running back in and they went to get into the

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pet and all of a sudden they both stopped like oh,

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and then they had to genue effect and do the

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sign of the Cross, and then they got this kind

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of like it's kind of like they you know, oh

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see we did it.

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You know. That's cool. Yeah, And when you watch kids,

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especially holy kids have been raised, right. I love watching

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the little kids at church who Ginia flecked and you

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can just see the sincerity and their little hearts for God.

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It's so I just love it. They're so sweet, they're

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so cute.

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It's going to you know, obviously we don't know. I

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don't even think they even know what the priest is

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talking about I think they just love being there though.

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Yeah, they feel it. They feel it. And I've seen that.

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There's like a video on youtubeer somewhere that I don't watch, TikTok,

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but this little girl, probably three years old in the

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garden and there was a statue of Mary. I guarantee

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you it was blessed because she's just going on and

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on in front of it, and she's like waving her

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arms and she's it's like a little kid basically complaint

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telling her mama everything. She's like, Mama, like, do you

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I'm not happy about She's probably saying, you know, I

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want this toy and I don't have it, and like

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my mama was mean to me. And you know, you

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could just see her like pouring her little heart out

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in front of the statue and she was having a

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real conversation at least in her mind. You could tell

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she was, yeah.

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I'm good. I've had a priest one time. It was

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talking about because there's a lot of people think kids

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can actually see angels. I don't know what age is

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supposed to be stops. Have you heard that where it's

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easier for kids to see angels and all that kind

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of thing.

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Yeah, I do believe that's true. Angels, and I mean,

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in my case, demons too.

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And the priest was talking. He asked the congregation. He goes,

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have you guys ever seen an angel? You know, when

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he's consecrating the host and all that kind of stuff,

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you know and all that, And nobody fessed up, and

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he goes, yeah, I've never seen one either. He goes,

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but I know the reason I know that they're He goes, so,

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some of you bring your little babies up, and when

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I give you their communion, all of a sudden, I

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look and the baby will it's head and eyes will move,

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and then all of a sudden just start smiling. He

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knows for a fact that the kid's seen an angel.

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Yeah, I've seen that happen before with kids too at Mass.

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I think that's really cool. One time at Mass, and

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I don't have these experiences. I only had this experience

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one time, but it was pretty cool, and I think

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I was in I think you do have to be

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in such a state. I was in such a state

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of gratitude. I was just really grateful and really happy

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that day. And as the priest, and he was a

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very he is a very Holy Priest, and it's the

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one I talk about. But as he was consecrating the host,

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I saw Jesus literally standing behind him, like a huge

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much taller than him, but with his hands on his shoulders.

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As he consecrated the host, and then he didn't leave him.

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He gave out communion and I didn't see him. Like basically,

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I saw Christ there the whole time that the priest

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was giving out communion, and when he gave out the

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very last one, then I didn't see him anymore. And

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that was it.

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I'd like to see it.

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That was pretty cool. Yeah, I did share that with

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It was Father Fi. I did share that with him,

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and he was really happy I did. And he was like, well,

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that just tells me two things. What I'm doing is

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real and it's important and I need to I need

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to even kick it up a notch and take it

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more seriously. And he's one of the best priests here

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in Nashville.

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So do you have any silly Catholic things that you've

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noticed that people do.

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It's interesting to me. It's interesting to me. I don't

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know that. Sometimes I just see like I don't like

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people I would say are about because they spend a

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lot of time in adoration, they're always at Mass and

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they don't pray. I've noticed this about just one couple,

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and I'm not judging them. I just don't Maybe they

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just weren't raised doing that. They don't pray before they eat,

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and I'm like, I don't know, I feel real kind

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of urged to pray before I eat because I'm kind

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of always aware that we might not have we could

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go through a famine. There are plenty of times in

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the Bible there was famines. You might not have food

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one day, you definitely should be grateful for it. I

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don't know, I just wonder about that, or like, I've

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noticed this where some people will, you know, you say blessed,

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you know, blessed soul in these I gifts we're about

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to receive, And then some people say the last part

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about they include the souls in purgatory.

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Do you do that, I've heard it. I've never done.

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Yeah, I always do. I always include the souls in purgatory.

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But that's the way my husband taught me to pray,

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and his mom, his grandmother had a devotion to the

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souls in purgatory. So but it just seems incomplete to

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me to not say the purgatory part, like I don't

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want to leave anybody out.

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Well, yeah, but I mean when you're at Mass at

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your church, today's that or is that just you?

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Well, they're not blessing. They don't say the blessing before

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meals that I've never seen at mass them say that.

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I'm talking about just the one that you pray before

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you eat. Oh okay, but yeah, I don't see and

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00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:16.960
really anybody do anything weird. To be honest, what I

477
00:21:17.039 --> 00:21:19.039
think is weird is the way people get together and

478
00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:21.279
talk like it's a social club before you're about to

479
00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:23.880
partake in the most holiest thing that can go on

480
00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:26.559
on earth. I have noticed that I start praying when

481
00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:28.920
I get to Mass. It depends on the church you

482
00:21:28.920 --> 00:21:30.599
go to, because if you're at a church where the

483
00:21:30.599 --> 00:21:32.799
priests kind of said everybody have to be extremely holy

484
00:21:32.839 --> 00:21:35.960
and reverent, you don't have this social club chatter. But

485
00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:38.759
the church I've been going to there is that. But

486
00:21:38.839 --> 00:21:41.279
I'll start praying when I get there that Mary makes

487
00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:43.759
everybody feel it in their heart to be very reverent

488
00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:47.160
and let this Mass be very reverent and worthy of

489
00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:50.880
her son's sacrifice. And I do notice there's like a

490
00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:54.319
hush and a reverence that comes over. It works like

491
00:21:54.359 --> 00:21:57.480
people do shut up because it annoys me when they're

492
00:21:57.480 --> 00:22:00.119
like sitting there talking and like it's like they're not

493
00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:02.480
realizing what's about to take place. And so but I

494
00:22:02.599 --> 00:22:05.200
noticed when I prayed that prayer. Obviously it's a prayer

495
00:22:05.400 --> 00:22:08.559
that pleases Mary. She wants everybody to receive her son

496
00:22:08.680 --> 00:22:11.720
worthily and to take the mask seriously. So when I

497
00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:13.880
say that, I do notice the mass is very much

498
00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:14.759
more reverent.

499
00:22:14.559 --> 00:22:16.680
And quiet, except for the little kids.

500
00:22:17.480 --> 00:22:21.400
No, it even it even shuts them up. Yeah, it does.

501
00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:24.880
You need to come to one of ours. Then, Man,

502
00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:29.279
we had our parish had a baby, baby boom. So

503
00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:32.000
they are a little kids. I mean it's a small town.

504
00:22:32.119 --> 00:22:34.759
I mean the town, but I mean it serves probably

505
00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:37.319
ten thousand people when you take like four or five

506
00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:40.960
towns around it. Right, But man, almost every third or

507
00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:42.720
fourth couple had a little baby in there. I don't

508
00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:44.359
know what kind of they must have had, the heck

509
00:22:44.359 --> 00:22:46.079
of a New Year's party last year or something?

510
00:22:46.839 --> 00:22:49.720
Right, Well, did I tell you that Father Fi has

511
00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:51.440
that going on in his church, which I don't even

512
00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:53.480
go to his church, But there are a lot of

513
00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:56.559
young families with little babies. Did I tell you what

514
00:22:56.680 --> 00:22:59.440
he did? Okay, so he did. He told me this

515
00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:01.599
when we had long and she said I thought about it,

516
00:23:01.640 --> 00:23:04.440
and I thought, well, I have the authority because you know,

517
00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:05.960
I was like, I was assuring him, Yeah, you do

518
00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:07.440
have the authority to do that, because I think I

519
00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:10.119
know probably more about like the nuts and bolts of

520
00:23:10.119 --> 00:23:13.480
spiritual warfare than even he does, because he doesn't spend

521
00:23:13.480 --> 00:23:16.920
all day focusing all like I have. But he was like,

522
00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:19.960
I was just telling God, you know all these people,

523
00:23:20.319 --> 00:23:22.279
I know they have a hard time focusing on the mass.

524
00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:24.920
It's great we have babies. But he said, as I

525
00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:26.640
was preparing the mask, I was telling God, I have

526
00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:29.319
authority over this church, right, I'm the priest. I have

527
00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:32.200
authority over this mass. And I think he was saying

528
00:23:32.240 --> 00:23:34.920
it kind of a little fear, like he knows enough

529
00:23:34.960 --> 00:23:37.240
about spiritual warfare to know that if you pray outside

530
00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:39.759
of authority and you open yourself up to attack. So

531
00:23:39.799 --> 00:23:41.400
he was kind of talking to God going on, I've

532
00:23:41.400 --> 00:23:43.559
got authority over this church. I'm the priest over this church.

533
00:23:43.599 --> 00:23:46.119
I've got authority over this mass, right God, So I'm

534
00:23:46.160 --> 00:23:47.880
going to pray, if it's okay with you. This is

535
00:23:47.880 --> 00:23:50.160
how he's so funny. I want to pray, if it's

536
00:23:50.200 --> 00:23:52.559
okay with you, that all all of the that Mary

537
00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:57.079
the Blessed Mother, comfort and calm all the babies, and

538
00:23:57.160 --> 00:23:59.440
let everybody be able to be quiet. Let it be

539
00:23:59.480 --> 00:24:01.720
a quiet mass so that everybody can focus on the Mass.

540
00:24:01.759 --> 00:24:04.680
And he did pray that silently, and he said it

541
00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:07.839
was the most quiet solemn mass he'd ever heard, not

542
00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:10.480
a bit, not a peep from any of the babies.

543
00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:13.160
And not only that, he had parents coming up to

544
00:24:13.240 --> 00:24:15.680
him later in the week saying, I don't know what

545
00:24:15.720 --> 00:24:19.039
you did last Sunday before that mass, but my kid

546
00:24:19.079 --> 00:24:21.200
has been so good all week. They haven't cried or

547
00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:24.559
complained about anything like it lost way beyond the mass.

548
00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:26.279
So I encouraged him. I was like, yeah, I keep

549
00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:28.559
praying that prayer. That's good. That helps the little kids.

550
00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:31.039
I mean, they definitely feel attacked by the evil one,

551
00:24:31.480 --> 00:24:32.880
Like why would he not attack.

552
00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:35.440
Them too, right like ours? Like I said, it's not

553
00:24:35.480 --> 00:24:38.440
a huge church or anything, but the reason there's nothing

554
00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:40.640
they can do because the crying room in the back

555
00:24:40.759 --> 00:24:43.039
is actually full. I mean, so it's not like people are,

556
00:24:43.440 --> 00:24:45.720
you know, it's kind of like, well it's full and

557
00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:49.839
luckily the preeceason he loved the kids anyway, So yeah,

558
00:24:50.039 --> 00:24:50.759
that's a good.

559
00:24:50.599 --> 00:24:53.599
Thing that your parish is booming like that with these

560
00:24:53.640 --> 00:24:54.480
holy families.

561
00:24:54.920 --> 00:24:58.000
Yeah, I'm wondering if it's not just a general because

562
00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:01.519
we've been talking about resurrection and in the Catholic Church

563
00:25:01.559 --> 00:25:03.720
and all that. Just wondering, Yeah, if it's just not

564
00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:06.920
spreading over where people are more apt mixed, where they're

565
00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:08.640
not holding back on an kids.

566
00:25:08.839 --> 00:25:12.079
Yeah, I mean I feel like resurrection and revival goes

567
00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:14.920
goes way beyond. This thought came to me as I

568
00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:16.960
was falling asleep last night and I was thinking about

569
00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:19.319
the business venture you and I are about to do that.

570
00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:22.039
God was speaking to me like how revival is We

571
00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:24.920
are in times of revival and it's way more than

572
00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:28.160
just it is people getting baptized and coming to Christ

573
00:25:28.200 --> 00:25:31.640
and more people coming to a church and coming to faith.

574
00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:35.880
That He's like, revival covers every area of life. So

575
00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:38.839
you're going to see a revival in music, in TV

576
00:25:39.160 --> 00:25:43.960
and movies and songs, you know, in literature, like work,

577
00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:47.359
you know works because what Satan we all recognize, like

578
00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:52.519
TV sucks, so country music sucks. Like there's been a

579
00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:56.720
decline since the nineties and basically every area that's creative,

580
00:25:57.079 --> 00:25:59.519
even in business. It seems like the evil ones kind

581
00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:02.079
of just stained it all and like brought it down

582
00:26:02.119 --> 00:26:04.839
to where there's nothing creative going on, and there's no

583
00:26:04.920 --> 00:26:07.480
good movies anymore, there are no good songs. You just

584
00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:10.240
felt it, you know, and like the eighties were the

585
00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:13.279
last decade that were like really creative and awesome. I

586
00:26:13.319 --> 00:26:16.079
think all of it, movies, TV, all of the songs,

587
00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:19.160
that God's bringing it back in all areas.

588
00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:21.680
I think that's the reason why it is technology. I

589
00:26:21.720 --> 00:26:25.000
mean it comes from the devil and evil, but a

590
00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:27.480
lot of it's technology because like when you watch those

591
00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:29.839
eighties movies that you know, everybody still knows they had

592
00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:33.359
such good conversations and verbide and vocabulary and all that

593
00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:37.319
kind of stuff. Now instead of two actors out there talking,

594
00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:41.200
I mean, they just spend hundreds of millions of dollars

595
00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:43.599
on special effects. I think that's there.

596
00:26:43.839 --> 00:26:45.880
Yeah, I think that makes up for the story and

597
00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:46.799
the plot.

598
00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:49.400
And the dialogue and all that guy has to go

599
00:26:49.799 --> 00:26:54.880
shild there after all that special effects, where before I

600
00:26:54.920 --> 00:26:57.160
mean he's kind of bloody and vulgar and all that

601
00:26:57.200 --> 00:26:59.519
kind of stuff. I don't know if you like Quentin Tarantino,

602
00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:02.119
but his discussions are really good, Like.

603
00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:05.119
I love Yeah, I love Tarantino.

604
00:27:05.319 --> 00:27:08.759
I mean just the whole discussion between his characters. Man,

605
00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:10.880
they're really in depth, and I mean they make you

606
00:27:10.920 --> 00:27:12.680
think when you're looking at him, and you don't see

607
00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:13.599
that very often.

608
00:27:14.039 --> 00:27:16.839
No, That's why I think he's such a I've definitely

609
00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:19.559
see the Holy Spirit, even though he's I think he's Jewish,

610
00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:22.880
but I just seen the Holy Spirit working through his

611
00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:25.799
his movies for sure, because he still has that old

612
00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:28.960
Hollywood kind of mentality where you know, in old Hollywood,

613
00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:30.839
look at the movies back then when there was no

614
00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:33.799
special effects at all, and they actually really had great

615
00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:38.240
dialogue and witty story plots and cleverness and all that.

616
00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:40.920
I think Tarantino still has that going on.

617
00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:44.160
Yeah, and the good stories were I mean there's probably

618
00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:46.599
still one or two today, but the good stories where

619
00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:48.319
you had to be smart textually, you had to pay

620
00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:50.799
attention for the movie because something might happen in the

621
00:27:50.839 --> 00:27:54.480
first ten minutes and then you in order for it

622
00:27:54.519 --> 00:27:56.720
to be really funny or scary or something. You know

623
00:27:56.880 --> 00:27:58.839
an hour later you have to remember.

624
00:27:58.480 --> 00:28:02.720
That, right, Yeah, you have to pay attention. Which, yeah,

625
00:28:02.759 --> 00:28:05.240
these smartphones make people not be able to pay attention.

626
00:28:05.400 --> 00:28:08.079
I don't have the attention span to watch a movie anymore.

627
00:28:09.039 --> 00:28:11.279
Oh right, I'll you, So next time we will go

628
00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:14.279
into some things about my surprise. I know, maybe you

629
00:28:14.279 --> 00:28:16.160
guys are all the super smart and know everything about

630
00:28:16.200 --> 00:28:18.279
the Catholic chairs, but I find a couple of them

631
00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:21.279
that were pretty surprising anyway, So we'll talk about that

632
00:28:21.319 --> 00:28:24.039
next time. Until next time, you know, here's hoping you

633
00:28:24.039 --> 00:28:26.240
don't lose hope, and we're all in it together.