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[00:00:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:00:03] Speaker B: Hey, we'll go to the top of the script here. Let's. I wanted to be like Father and have my own display up here too.
[00:00:10] Speaker A: That would be really cool.
[00:00:12] Speaker B: All right, everybody, let's have fun in three, two, one.
Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Podcast with Father Greg and jd. Each week, Father Greg and I connect on a variety of topics relating to our faith and our parish in Winona, Ontario. And each week, Father Greg practices his American Sign Language.
We are here to help spread the good news and further unite our parish community. We're up to episode number 29. We are celebrating.
I'm having pronunciation problems again. We are celebrating the solemnity of the Assumption of the blessed virgin Mary St. Clair. And I want to ask you about praying in a standing position versus kneeling in church.
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How's your week, Father?
[00:01:07] Speaker A: Very good.
[00:01:08] Speaker B: Awesome.
Any new releases coming up from Father G Reg and the Seminarians?
[00:01:13] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, our new album. We should have an album. That'd be fun. It's not something that I've yet actually done, but it really could be.
[00:01:19] Speaker B: I think that would be a lot of fun.
[00:01:21] Speaker A: Really quite cool. So maybe we need to start our own rap school.
[00:01:25] Speaker B: I think you're onto something there.
I had quick curiosity about today's reading. So in Matthew's Gospel, there was talk this binding and loosing things.
And I've checked some of my past notes and those two words always confuse.
[00:01:43] Speaker A: Me.
[00:01:45] Speaker B: Struggling with the meaning of them. I can kind of create a general idea of what they really mean, but it just sat with me forever. Finally found what I think is a good translation today. Oh, binding being prohibited and loosing being permitted.
[00:02:05] Speaker A: That's right. I thought this was going to be a joke, but that was actually.
[00:02:07] Speaker B: No, it was a genuine sort of. Before we get into the jokes for today, never understood that.
[00:02:13] Speaker A: Clearly the authority of the church say this is allowed or not allowed.
[00:02:17] Speaker B: Right.
And why don't they say that allowed and not allowed rather than binding and loosing?
[00:02:21] Speaker A: I think it's sometimes in Jewish rabbinic speech they would use certain styles and expressions in a way that we might not be used to, but for them there's a certain eloquence and beauty to them. And it's also. He's referencing an Old Testament passage where God has another the Royal Steward, which is an official spot in the Davidic Kingdom. They would have that authority to bind and loose. And so he's actually kind of making a reference to that authority.
[00:02:49] Speaker B: And we've talked before too, about improving language and, you know, not having it oversimplified in language and keeping a level of sophistication in language, I guess, to help better understand scripture and passages. So I do think though, that this spelling of loosing really has confused the masses and how to spell lose. Oh, that'd be losing anyway, so that's a little bit of a sidetrack before we get started. I do have a quick question though.
I'm not an expert, but would it have been quicker for Noah to escape the flood in a straight line rather than in a big ark?
[00:03:32] Speaker A: Oh, goodness. Am I supposed to laugh?
I want to hit a drum or something with a pitch or something. But like. No, it was okay. It was okay.
[00:03:39] Speaker B: It was okay.
[00:03:40] Speaker A: That was good. That was a good dad joke. But it was like very dad joke. It was like giving peak dad joke.
[00:03:45] Speaker B: I think so. And I think it might fit in the quality of a Father Greg joke right there.
[00:03:49] Speaker A: Yeah, well, that'd be a sad thing, wouldn't it be?
[00:03:54] Speaker B: Oh, can you get me out of this by starting us off with a prayer?
[00:03:56] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that was good. That was a good effort. We're gonna go straight to the prayer. No arcs here. In the name of the Father and of the Son, of the Holy Spirit. Amen. God, we thank you so much for your love for us. And we just ask that you would anoint us with your holy spirit. Spirit, fill us our whole being with your holy spirit, Us, our listeners, all those who are touched by this podcast. May we experience your presence, your love, your blessing, your healing, and may you be the one who touches our hearts and gives us what we need to hear at this time in our life. We ask Mary, St. Joseph, St. Michael and all the saints to pray for us and protect us. We pray this in Jesus name, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
[00:04:31] Speaker B: Thank you for that, Father.
[00:04:32] Speaker A: Thank you.
[00:04:33] Speaker B: Let's reveal our saint of the week each. Each week we feature a saint or several and share some facts about their lives. As we strive to live out our mission as Catholics, we can always look to our saints for inspiration.
This week's saint is quite special to us, to me, and I think to you as well, since we did have the joy of praying at St. Clair's tomb and also visiting the convent where she lived and worked at. So I think there's some particularly special Moments in this one. So, yes, today, of course, we are honoring St. Clair of Assisi, an Italian noblewoman who became the founder of the Poor Clares, a monastic order for women inspired by the teachings of St. Francis of Assisi. She renounced her life for her life of wealth, for a life of poverty, prayer, and simplicity. She was known for her deep devotion, leadership, and miracles and was canonized in 1255.
And here's a great testament to her faith when, as I recall, when the convent at St. Damiano was under attack.
She was quite ill at the time and very weak and had herself carried to the Covenant Gates holding the Blessed Sacrament in a monstrance. And she knelt in prayer and begged God to protect her sisters. And miraculously, the attackers fled and the convent was spared.
[00:05:50] Speaker A: Amen. The whole city even, I think. Yeah. Oh.
[00:05:53] Speaker B: Beyond just the content.
[00:05:54] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:05:55] Speaker B: So really shows her deep trust in God and her fierce spiritual leadership, even in the face of incredible violence.
So cheers to St Clair and a couple of. Oh, hey, let's go. An early. Cheers.
[00:06:07] Speaker A: We gotta make that real.
[00:06:10] Speaker B: And a couple of quotes from St. Clair. We become what we love.
And I think that's. That's so true in many aspects of our lives.
[00:06:18] Speaker A: And.
[00:06:19] Speaker B: And a second love that does not know of suffering is not worthy of the name.
[00:06:24] Speaker A: Amen. So I love that idea that, like, unless you're willing to suffer for someone, you don't really love them. That's beautiful and profound.
[00:06:32] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Oh, I love that thought.
And she also, just a slight. In the third quote, said, jesus, I trust in you.
[00:06:41] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know if it's written down. It might be written down, actually, but as usual, we assume they said it at some point.
[00:06:47] Speaker B: This is 29 consecutive saints of the Week who have had that common quote.
[00:06:52] Speaker A: I feel like that's something we should start saying often.
[00:06:54] Speaker B: Jesus, trust in you, and we'll be on our way to our own sainthood.
[00:06:58] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:06:59] Speaker B: I think you're onto something there, because that's been a common thread. Of all of the saints so far, 29 in a row.
[00:07:04] Speaker A: I mean, how could you follow Jesus and not trust in him?
[00:07:07] Speaker B: True.
[00:07:07] Speaker A: Like that much as the saints do it.
[00:07:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
It would be really hypocritical.
Okay. All right, so we're onto something here. Keep a note of that at home.
It is time for Ask Father Greg. Each week we respond to a question submitted by a listener or a question that we make up ourselves.
Now back to Italy for another question for this one. Notice that the masses, parts of the Mass where we would normally kneel. Some stood, some kneeled.
And then back to other masses, it was reversed. So we're standing and kneeling. So I was a little bit confused. I kind of went with partly what I knew to do at the time and also wanted to blend into the community as well. So I did a mix of kneeling and standing myself. But how does this work? Is it something that is really defined and really matters, or are standing and kneeling both kind of equally reverent?
[00:07:56] Speaker A: Right on. Good question. Do you mean during the Mass or just.
[00:07:59] Speaker B: Yeah, during the Mass.
[00:08:00] Speaker A: Great question.
So the general instruction of the Roman Missal and the Roman Missal itself, which explains how we have Mass in the Roman Catholic Church, Roman Missal, you know, the misael is the thing that tells us how to do Mass, right? Okay. Misa is mass in mind.
So there's instructions about our posture and our posture matters. Like, before I even comment specifically on yelling, standing, we say our bodily posture matters because first off, you are not just a pure soul. You have a body, and your body is another part of how you worship God. And there's this thing called body language, right? Our body communicates that depending on how we move our body. And so when.
[00:08:39] Speaker B: Sometimes it makes sounds, right.
[00:08:40] Speaker A: Sometimes it makes sounds too. In fact, like it does right now through these vocal cords, etc. So our posture and our body language send messages.
And if we're supposed to love God with our heart, mind, soul and strength, okay, that strength part with our body, right? Our whole being is to worship the Lord.
So then our body has its part to play in worship of God.
And in worship, there is body language.
And so you'll notice in the Mass there are instructions actually about what to do during certain times.
So, for example, everyone at the beginning of mass is to stand. And we're standing kind of at attention with excitement as we begin the Mass.
Then we sit for the readings. And that seated time is a symbol, body language, that we are just resting and relaxing and drinking in the Lord, really just receiving. We're just listening. It's a very listening posture, right? During the readings and during the homily, we're seated, okay? We're thinking, we're listening, we're reflecting.
Then we're going to stand for the Gospel because we're standing as an extra mark of reverence for this most important part of the Word of God. So again, everyone says to stand now. Okay, let's just note that, yeah, there's going to be people with mobility issues. They're in wheelchairs or whatever. They can't stand they can. That's fine. That's. No one is expecting the person in the wheelchair to just like kneel in a kneeler. That's. That's totally inhumane.
[00:10:11] Speaker B: Miracles.
[00:10:12] Speaker A: It's possible, okay, there are miracles, and those do happen. But generally we're not expecting that. We don't force that on people. So. But for those who do have the capacity to do that, then they are to do that. So then after the. We're going to stand to profess our creed again. You know, again, that's a sign of that we're at attention. This is kind of extra attentiveness to that part. And we're going to bow at the Incarnation and the word, like when it says that Jesus was born by the Virgin Mary, we bow. Everyone's supposed to do what's called a profound bow, a bow from the waist. And this is like an honoring of Jesus, who also descended from heaven to earth to become one of us.
Anyways, okay, eventually we're going to kneel. Kneeling is a posture of adoration.
And so from the Holy, holy, Holy. The end of that, most of the Eucharistic prayer until the ending of the Great Amen, people will be kneeling. Most people. And again, it's a sort of posture of adoration.
And so then the lady are adoring the Lord who becomes present in the Holy Eucharist, etc. Etc.
We'll note that the unity of bodily posture is an expression of the oneness of the body of Christ worship. So if everyone's just doing their own random thing all over the place, that would show a sort of disorder in the body of Christ. Whereas as much as we can reasonably, we try to have order and unity as an expression of the oneness, the unity we share as being the one family of God. And so in those areas, posture is important and matters. And posture is also helpful for us too.
Even outside of Mass, Sometimes we know, hey, kneeling will help me pray better. Or other times we say, no sitting is going to be. Sometimes we're so tired, we go, I'm just going to lay down and talk to the Lord. Maybe, you know, it's what's going to help me most. Outside of Mass, you have the freedom. But during the Mass, we should obey the norms of the church and be in united form relative to others.
Now, sometimes we go to a certain situation and a Mass and we go, man, it's unclear what to do. Okay, if we're unclear, we just do our best and the Lord knows our heart. I think that's my kind of general thoughts. Does that answer your question?
[00:12:26] Speaker B: In a way more thorough way than I thought it would. I was practicing also my body language and looking at you with great intent and interest.
[00:12:32] Speaker A: You are so good at that.
[00:12:34] Speaker B: As you were explaining that I have.
[00:12:35] Speaker A: To look at ways and notice the thing because I'm thinking not to get distracted.
[00:12:38] Speaker B: This is really intense eye contact. That's too much.
So I guess my question was specifically sort of like, I noticed that the majority of some people were standing during parts of the Mass rather than I was expecting kneeling.
And then it was the reverse at another time.
[00:12:57] Speaker A: Was there a particular case where this happened?
[00:13:00] Speaker B: It was just a 16th Sunday of ordinary time. Like, it was just during the regular Mass. It was during the Eucharistic prayer.
[00:13:07] Speaker A: Was it here?
[00:13:08] Speaker B: No, it was in Italy. So I'm back in Italy.
[00:13:10] Speaker A: It might be because if they're all pilgrims and they're coming from different parts of the world, there can be sometimes regional differences in posture.
So sometimes in other parts of the world, they might start kneeling earlier or stand sooner.
So there are slight differences based on the conference of bishops and the adaptations they think are best for their country, which Rome has allowed in their case.
[00:13:34] Speaker B: Okay, so kneeling and standing, both examples of reverence and focused attention.
I had one little embarrassing part where I was standing.
No, I was kneeling because I thought somebody else was kneeling. And then I realized I was just a very short person.
[00:13:50] Speaker A: That's hilarious.
[00:13:51] Speaker B: On the other side of the Church.
[00:13:53] Speaker A: That's so funny.
[00:13:53] Speaker B: I got my act together, but it was just sort of a curiosity that I noticed as we went to different local masses.
[00:13:58] Speaker A: Yeah. And there's pros and cons to the fact that there is legitimate diversity. Like, sometimes the diversity allows bishops to do what they think is best for their country for reasons they understand.
But sometimes when you go to, like, Italy, where people from all around the world are coming together, we might experience that disunity which is the fruit of that authority at a local level, which is just a fascinating phenomenon. I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just noting it.
[00:14:22] Speaker B: Also the fact that we were. We attended Mass in a couple of local parishes while we were there.
Average age, quite a bit older than what I would expect here.
[00:14:32] Speaker A: So I was thinking mostly because of.
[00:14:33] Speaker B: Their knees standing, so not that old people can't kneel. I just kind of making a loose association that seemed to might have been a relationship.
[00:14:41] Speaker A: There's a probabilistic correlation between age and difficulty.
[00:14:46] Speaker B: Drawing back on your stats background there.
[00:14:47] Speaker A: There we go. Very good.
[00:14:49] Speaker B: Oh, well, thank you for that, Father. It was always something that kind of stuck with me, and I thought I'd.
[00:14:53] Speaker A: See if there was a rule or anything. That's great.
[00:14:56] Speaker B: All right, let's flip to our resource of the week. And so we kind of tease this one out over the last little while. And we're going to dive into it over the next five weeks, going back to Timothy Gallagher's the Exam in Prayer. And that's what we do is kind of introduce it this week, sort of with the philosophy, what the purpose is, or some of the background, and then we'll dive into the different sections weekly as we go along to become better acquainted.
And maybe people may be inspired to take this on as a practice as they learn a little bit more about it.
[00:15:30] Speaker A: Examine prayer is powerful. Yeah. We gotta help people understand this.
[00:15:33] Speaker B: And I mean, the prayer itself feels straightforward to accomplish, but that's just scratching the surface. And I think a deeper dive for us will certainly. Selfishly, it's going to really help my practice, and I'm also looking forward to really opening it up for everyone else to learn as well.
[00:15:53] Speaker A: Beautiful.
[00:15:53] Speaker B: From this.
[00:15:54] Speaker A: So tell us more. Do you want to summarize the examiner? Do you want me to say some things about it?
[00:15:58] Speaker B: Is it part of your practice now?
[00:16:00] Speaker A: I've been doing the examine prayer every day for years and years.
[00:16:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:03] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah, yeah.
[00:16:05] Speaker B: So my understanding it, and I've been practicing it irregularly for a year and a bit or so or a couple of years. I'm not really sure how far it goes back. But, you know, we're thinking the core idea of pausing in our day, maybe at the end of the day to reflect prayerfully on what has happened during the day, how God has touched your life and directed you, how you have responded to that touch or that grace, and whether you've turned towards it or away from it, and looking for forgiveness for times that you didn't, and the help and grace for tomorrow.
[00:16:44] Speaker A: 100% that kind of. Yeah, exactly. Often the general flow is like to just be extra aware of God's presence and then to cultivate gratitude. Think of some things you're grateful for that day in the presence of the Lord. It's not just you on your own, it's you with the Lord, which is always key. To have this relational aspect in prayer. Right.
Prayer is a sort of inherently relational reality where it's not just me reflecting solo, it's me reflecting in the presence of my friend who is God and who loves me, etc. So this awareness of God's presence. Gratitude for things he's done, concrete things, not just broadly. It's easy to say thank you in general, but think of the top five things that day you're most grateful for.
And then review the day where you're going. Where was God in my day? Where did I most sense God? And then when I sensed God, how well did I respond to what I felt he was drawing me to? Was I completely generous, completely faithful, completely obedient to what I thought he wanted? Or were there times where I knew what I thought God wanted, but I freely chose not to do it right, which we call sin. And insofar as I did well, I thank God and I resolved to continue that insofar as I failed, I apologize and repent. I say, lord, I'm sorry. Perhaps I pray an act of contrition. And I look to how I can do better next time.
More attentive and more responsive to the Lord with generosity of heart.
And doing this repeatedly every day. It could be two to five minutes every day. Even more at the end of the day, whatever you want to do. But it helps us to become, throughout each day, very attentive and much more responsive to the Lord. Very sensitive to the way he works. In our life, we start to notice patterns in how God is speaking to us. And so it's very, very important. When I first joined seminary, I remember one priest saying, you should always end the day thinking of at least five things to thank God for. And then also, like, look for five areas you thought God was calling you to do something, and then examine how you responded and then do what we said. So I now call it the 5 and 5. And I've been doing the 5 and 5 for at least 11, 12 years every day. But I was already doing a similar thing before that.
So I think it's very helpful and want to help our listeners to cultivate this. I want to challenge you if you're listening or watching.
This is how we examine our life and really invite the Lord in more. And it takes a little generosity and courage, but it's so worth it and.
[00:18:58] Speaker B: Important to have it as a daily practice. You're not lumping in days and days.
[00:19:03] Speaker A: Yeah, do it every day for even a minute or two minutes. Like if you set a timer on your phone. Do your best. Just like God's presence. I'm grateful. Review the day, make resolutions.
Okay. Thank you, Lord. And go to bed. Right.
[00:19:17] Speaker B: And this is inspired by St. Ignatius, of course.
[00:19:20] Speaker A: That's right. This is his idea.
[00:19:22] Speaker B: And we thought back sort of kind of deeper philosophical beginnings.
We're going to throw this quote on you that the unexamined life is not worth living.
[00:19:32] Speaker A: I was going to say the same thing.
[00:19:33] Speaker B: Famous quote by Socrates.
[00:19:34] Speaker A: Socrates, yeah. Oh, so, yeah, you're just asking if I would get triggered again.
Good old Socrates.
[00:19:40] Speaker B: Socrates and Plaud.
[00:19:42] Speaker A: Socrates are like great rivals. Like I always wondered which one was really the wiser one.
[00:19:47] Speaker B: Oh, they both had so many great sayings.
[00:19:49] Speaker A: Indeed, indeed. Just like Plato and Plato.
Aristotle. Aristotle.
He's an up and coming.
Yeah, yeah. I don't know.
[00:19:58] Speaker B: Aristotle.
[00:20:00] Speaker A: Okay, I'll stop.
[00:20:01] Speaker B: Oh, gosh. Okay. So I think that's a great introduction. And throughout then our next few weeks, we'll talk about.
[00:20:10] Speaker A: Break that down a little more.
[00:20:11] Speaker B: Yeah. So building the desire to develop a communion with God, how to do it, how to nurture the conditions, you know, how do we develop courage that loved will be called upon? And then we'll also have a conversation about the fruits that can be born out of this practice too.
[00:20:33] Speaker A: Absolutely. Yeah. So this is like a multi episodal resource of the week that we really want to focus on for a little bit because we think it's really worth the time.
[00:20:42] Speaker B: And as you described your five and five, I'm gonna guess that some people who are hearing this will make the connection that they're already doing something similar just under a different name.
[00:20:50] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:20:52] Speaker B: So we'll tease out these different elements as we come up in the coming weeks. All right, thanks for that intro, Father. That's great.
So let's shift our conversation to the calendar and we're into ordinary time. We've got a big one this week on August 15th. It's the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Father, can you share with us what makes the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary such a meaningful and powerful celebration?
[00:21:19] Speaker A: Yeah, sure. The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas, and it means that Mary was assumed into heaven, body and soul. The other Marian dogmas are that Mary was conceived free from all sin in the Immaculate Conception. She is the mother of God and she was a perpetual virgin. And all those are very clear from scripture.
So Mary being assumed into heaven is important because if she had not sinned nor any sin on her soul, but if the wages of sin is death, there's no reason she should have died. And so she did not die the normal way we would. She was assumed into heaven, body and soul. And this would be like a tremendous celebration for all those in heaven. And saints to welcome the Queen of Heaven to her place.
And also because when we die, our body does not join our soul wherever we go. That will only happen on the last day. Wherever our soul is, our body will reunite with our soul only at the end of time. And so our soul will go somewhere when we die, but our body does not.
So Mary is unique.
She has a special honor that she's already in heaven, body and soul. So it's very important. It's a great way to celebrate our Blessed Mother.
[00:22:33] Speaker B: And so this week, we celebrate with the angels and saints this amazing occurrence.
[00:22:38] Speaker A: Amen. And we're going to have 9am Mass and 7pm Mass just to give it an extra opportunity for people to celebrate.
[00:22:44] Speaker B: Oh, perfect. That's beautiful.
All right. There is so much happy in our community in our parish. Our parishioners can check out the bulletin every week, but for everyone else out there, Father, what are some of the highlights of the coming weeks?
[00:22:57] Speaker A: Some of the highlights?
Well, it's got to be kind of a repeated last podcast, so I'd say good listen to the last episode. But basically this upcoming Sunday, I'm filling in saying the Latin Mass, which is a fun thing to do every once in a while. I had a little blurb in our bullets about that, and yeah, we've got assumptions. We've got 9am and 7pm I'm also going away to priest friend's family cottage for a few days.
[00:23:23] Speaker B: Oh, you'll be fisher of.
Fisher of fish.
[00:23:26] Speaker A: Could be. Could be. And also this Saturday, we've got our goodbye celebration for seven days, Giuseppe and Salvatore.
And we've got lots of other cool stuff coming up as fall comes and the peach festival.
[00:23:39] Speaker B: And there's opportunities for people at the parish to volunteer to help out at the peach festival.
[00:23:42] Speaker A: Peach festivals coming up. Always a fun time.
[00:23:45] Speaker B: Excellent. And I can start to feel the energy of the parish kind of kicking in for the fall. And it's going to be an amazing slate of activities coming up in September. And there'll be so many people contributing to that work and all the scree things because none of those activities happen in isolation.
Who would you like to recognize in the parish this week with the shout out?
[00:24:07] Speaker A: I want to give a shout out to seminarians, Salvatore.
Just giving them a shout out.
[00:24:15] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:24:15] Speaker A: They're getting lots of attention because they're here, but they're not here much longer. So we got to say they're always a good time.
[00:24:22] Speaker B: And as they head for a very intense year of study.
Excellent. All right. Cheers to Salvatore and Giuseppe.
All right, that is just about all the time we have for this week. Thank you for your insights, Father. Shall we close with a prayer?
[00:24:37] Speaker A: Yeah, right before we close with a prayer, I just want to make an appeal to our listeners. Okay.
We love getting questions or feedback or comments from you. So please, if you ever want to give us feedback, what you like, what you don't like, what could be better, or like questions.
I suspect a lot of these Questions are just JD's questions, which are great questions. I'm not saying I don't want to answer them, because I love questions. I love JD's questions. But, you know, if you want to participate, you know, you're probably not the only one with your question. So if you have questions, I love questions. Please share them with us. How do you do that? There's a few different ways you can make comments on our social media or on the YouTube perhaps, but I'd say you can also just contact myself or JD Lucia, who does a lot of the work as well. Tell Ellaria, just somehow tell us.
And we try to be very receptive to whatever means that you use to give us feedback. So just please, please share questions, share feedback.
We really want to connect with you. We really want to hear what you.
[00:25:37] Speaker B: Think and would love to be more interactive with our audience. Yeah, of course. Beautiful.
[00:25:42] Speaker A: All right, closing prayer.
[00:25:44] Speaker B: Closing prayer.
[00:25:45] Speaker A: In the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen. God, we thank you for this time. May you bless us, guide us, inspire us, help us to continue to share your light, to receive your love, and to let it bear fruit in our lives. We ask Mary, St. Joseph, St. Michael, St. Clair, and all the saints to pray for us and to lead us ever closer to Jesus, our friend and Lord. We pray this in Jesus name. Amen. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
[00:26:08] Speaker B: Thank you for that, Father, and thank you for your insights and thank you for massively blessing us with your wisdom today. We are alternatively enlightened and definitely feeling more holy than when we started.
[00:26:21] Speaker A: Great.
[00:26:22] Speaker B: Thanks also to our fans and friends and odds and ends for joining us this week through the Immaculate Heart of Mary social media channels, to the Apple podcasts, Sleep, the Spotify or the YouTube. And if you like our show, subscribe and tell your friends. And if you don't like your show, tell your friends anyway and let them discern for themselves. Have a great week, everyone. We are Father Greg and jd, leaving you smarter, happier, and more blessed than you were yesterday.
[00:26:48] Speaker A: Those.
