Episode 42: The Epiphany of the Lord, Solemnity of Mary, St Basil the Great and St Gregory Nazianzen

Episode 42 December 31, 2025 00:25:51
Episode 42: The Epiphany of the Lord, Solemnity of Mary, St Basil the Great and St Gregory Nazianzen
The Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Podcast
Episode 42: The Epiphany of the Lord, Solemnity of Mary, St Basil the Great and St Gregory Nazianzen

Dec 31 2025 | 00:25:51

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Episode 42: The Epiphany of the Lord, Solemnity of Mary, St Basil the Great and St Gregory Nazianzen

Each week, JD and Father Greg Merkley share humorous stories, tackle faith questions and find joy in everyday spirituality through their wonderful parish, Immaculate Heart of Mary, located in Winona, Ontario.

We are here to help spread the good news and help to further unite our parish community.

Saint of the Week:St Basil the Great and St Gregory Nazianzen

Resource of the Week: The 12 Days of Christmas

Parish Shout out: Our Altar Servers

Website: www.ihmchurch.ca

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God bless!

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[00:00:21] Speaker A: Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Podcast. Father Cast, fathercast with Pod Greg and jd. [00:00:30] Speaker B: Whoa, I'm a pod? [00:00:34] Speaker A: Sometimes you are so regimented and automatic, it's like a bot. [00:00:39] Speaker B: Wow. [00:00:40] Speaker A: Gosh. Good golly gee whiz. Oh, I bet you were a good robot guy back in the day, too. [00:00:46] Speaker B: I don't know what that means. [00:00:47] Speaker A: The dance. [00:00:47] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, totally. All right, welcome to the podcast. [00:00:51] Speaker A: Okay, well, each week Father Greg and I connect on a variety of topics. As you can tell, most relate to our faith and our parish of Werner, Ontario. We are here to help spread the good word and further unite our parish community. This is episode number 42, and we are celebrating the epiphany of the Lord, the solemnity of Mary, St. Basil the Great, and St. Gregory Nazianzen. And I want to ask you about UFOs. [00:01:17] Speaker B: Whoa. [00:01:18] Speaker A: Remember that you can find us on the Spotify, the Apple podcasts, and the YouTubes. So please like or subscribe and we will find your inbox with new content as soon as we have it ready. Also, I was thinking on my way over, if they're not ready for 20 minutes of us, while they could play at a double speed and have 10 minutes of us and have, like, the chips. [00:01:37] Speaker B: That's more fun too. Actually. [00:01:38] Speaker A: It is. Or Lucia, our amazing broadcaster, puts together about a 90 second clip every week. And so that's like a bite sized version of us. And then once you see that and you're hooked, then you go for the full 20. [00:01:53] Speaker B: Is this a salesman thing? [00:01:54] Speaker A: Well, I'm just thinking sometimes 20 minutes, you're like, Ah, 20 minutes of these guys. Yeah. [00:01:59] Speaker B: You can also space it out. You can hit the pause button and pick us up tomorrow. [00:02:02] Speaker A: Just like a rosary. [00:02:04] Speaker B: That's right. [00:02:04] Speaker A: Okay. [00:02:05] Speaker B: Or just in the morning, then finish in the evening. [00:02:07] Speaker A: Okay. [00:02:08] Speaker B: So start a new day with us. [00:02:10] Speaker A: The Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Podcast. Just like the rosary. Maybe that could be a little tagline. [00:02:15] Speaker B: That's a pretty. Maybe a little bit too much of a praise for our podcast. Just like the rosary. That's maybe slightly too superlative for me. [00:02:23] Speaker A: Okay, yeah, all right, fair enough, fair enough. [00:02:26] Speaker B: Good podcast. [00:02:27] Speaker A: But these are always available at ihmchurch.ca. still got that. [00:02:33] Speaker B: Go check the website. Every day. [00:02:34] Speaker A: Every day. Just like a good rosary. Okay, it's all coming together now. Do you have a quick question before we begin? Is it possible to give a short answer to a theological question? [00:02:47] Speaker B: Yes. Very good. [00:02:50] Speaker A: Well done. That is a joke. [00:02:52] Speaker B: Is that meant to be like a proving the point by the question or. [00:02:55] Speaker A: It would have been denying it either way. It could have gone either way depending on your response. So well done. [00:03:01] Speaker B: So if I said no, it would be contradictory? Almost exactly. Okay. Should we have a prayer? [00:03:07] Speaker A: Let's have a prayer. [00:03:08] Speaker B: Okay. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. God, we thank you for this day. We thank you for our parish, we thank you for our listeners, we thank you for our faith. We ask that you impart your Holy Spirit upon us. As we just celebrated Christmas, we're so aware of the great love you have for us, God, that you would become one of us, born as a little baby, to draw us in to your love, your affection, and to invite us to show our affection to you for all you have done for us. Help us to be grateful for Christ and to live by his teachings as we ask that you would guide us in all things by the Holy Spirit. And we ask Mary, St. Joseph, St. Michael to be with us, to guide us. This podcast, our listeners, our parish, we pray this in Jesus holy name, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. [00:03:53] Speaker A: Thank you for that, Father. Let's dive right into our Saint of the Week. Each week, as you know, 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. Saints Saint Basil the Great and Saint Gregory of Nanzianzen were close friends and towering theologians of the 4th century, and they helped the Church articulate the mystery of the Trinity with both clarity and courage. St. Basil combined deep theological insight with practical charity organizing, care for the poor and shaping monastic life. While Gregory the Great gave poetic and precise language to the Church's faith through his preaching and writings. Together they show that true holiness unites right belief, faithful friendship and love put into action. By the way, this statement was Magisterium AI approved and it is accurate and faithfully reflects Catholic teaching on these two Cappadocian Fathers. In case you're wondering, Magisterium AI, it's an AI powered tool which is like a Catholic focused chatgpt that will answer questions about faith, theology and church teachings. And it references a vast collection of Catholic documents, scripture and scholarly works. And it's more, really more for answers and ensuring accuracy rather than a replacement for spiritual guidance. So just a little disclaimer. [00:05:17] Speaker B: I feel like this was an advertisement for Magisterium AI. [00:05:20] Speaker A: No, it was a. [00:05:21] Speaker B: You've always got more AI next time. Of a deep fake of you talking next week? [00:05:28] Speaker A: Ouch. [00:05:29] Speaker B: No, I'm just joking. [00:05:31] Speaker A: Okay, so we have two potentially genuine quotes from one from St. Basil the Great. This is very accurate. A tree is known by its fruit, and a person by his deeds. [00:05:43] Speaker B: Love that. [00:05:44] Speaker A: And from St. Gregory, we are not made for ourselves alone. [00:05:52] Speaker B: Beautiful. [00:05:53] Speaker A: And I think they were quite close and I believe it may be written that they may have said together, Jesus, I trust in you at a key moment. So we'll enjoy the potential of that having happened. 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 a regular appeal. Please send in your questions like this next one, which is sent in by a lawyer. Lawyer. They may be a lawyer, I don't know, but they're loyal and a loyal listener. So thank you for sending this in. A little bit of a preamble. The stars the shepherd saw or the star that the magi followed kind of made me think of UFOs a little bit. You know, something bright moving in the sky or things that we don't know about in the sky. And potentially they didn't have the language of UFO just yet. [00:06:47] Speaker B: I think they could have been like, what's that? [00:06:49] Speaker A: What's that? [00:06:50] Speaker B: Which is basically what identified flying object means. [00:06:52] Speaker A: What's flying? And so let's build into the real question. How does the church view extraterrestrial life? And does it give us any guidance on the subject? [00:07:06] Speaker B: Sure. Okay. So first I'd just like to comment on UFOs first. So as I said, you know, UFO is unidentified flying object. And we don't know what such things are. Sometimes they could just be maybe things in the air. They could be light, they could be ultra fast technology from some military force. We don't always know. Or they could be spiritual phenomenon. Maybe it's some kind of angelic activity of good or bad nature. We don't know. In any case, that's why we call them UFOs. They're not identified. Right. And so by their very nature, they are mysterious and unknown. Otherwise they wouldn't be identified. And so there, the church would always just say, like, hey, if we don't know, we continue to look into that. Right. And so now moving on to extraterrestrials, I think we could quickly say that we don't have any proof of sentient extraterrestrial life. Now, we already have found, like cells or whatever, small things sometimes on other planets or things like that. There's evidence that there's. That sometimes, right? So at least that's what I'm told. I'm not an expert in extraterrestrials of small single cell organisms or whatever it might be. But in terms of, I think you're talking more about like aliens, like, you know, Area 51 stuff. Area 51 stuff. The church would simply say, first off, that we are made in the image and likeness of God in a unique way and that Jesus Christ did not come to become some funky creature from Pluto or something. He came to be a human being. There's only one Jesus Christ, and he is fully human and fully divine. And so Pope Francis was asked about this one time and he said, well, if there were other aliens, if we were aliens, we would baptize them because they would need the salvation of Christ too. Because all of the cosmos, all of creation, is fallen and needs mercy, redemption and healing. And so that is one thing Pope Francis said on this. But again, we don't have proof of aliens. And I know that from a probabilistic angle, some will make the argument. Well, with the sheer vast number of this many galaxies and potential planets, etc. Surely statistically speaking, there must be other planets on which life exists and in fact has certainly evolved to become at least as sentient as us. That'd be the argument. Well, from a mere probabilistic sense, I can see that argument, but that's not proof. And plus, if God created everything, it's up to him to decide if he's going to allow those circumstances of sentient life to happen on the planet or not. First off, we don't have proof of other intelligent life forms. Every once in a while you hear people saying, well, we see this atlas thing or we see this whatever, but that's more just hypothesizing the cause of something by means of its effects, that we're always learning new things in science. Like, we realize, oh, this theory we held for so long is not actually as accurate as we thought. This happens regularly. And so it kind of invites us to a bit of a healthy skepticism. So I'm going to say the Church has not formally said there are aliens or they're not aliens. However, the Church has said that Jesus Christ is human. He's not from Mars, he's not from some other galaxy. He existed before creation. And if aliens did exist, then God has created them too. But we don't have proof that they exist. So as always, where the Church has not defined something in great detail, there's a certain level of freedom that you have. So there are Some Catholics who might believe there are aliens. Okay. But you'd have to still believe all the rest of the things the Catholic Church teaches. I will be transparent with you. I am not saying there are no aliens. Science has not proven that there are aliens. There are always people who say, oh, I got this alien, they found me, they probed me, or whatever it might be. Okay. But I would say that I'm a little bit skeptical of some of those phenomenon because sometimes you find out people maybe they had mental illness or something else happened or. And just the amount of times I've seen people say something happened and then it wasn't true makes me a little bit skeptical personally. So I'm of the mind that I err on the side of thinking. I'm not sold that there is other sentient life, intelligent life forms around. But if they were, then God designed them and created them and he has a plan for their existence. But they still need Jesus. [00:11:42] Speaker A: And if they showed up here, they'd be welcome to sit in the Adoration chapel after Monday. [00:11:46] Speaker B: There we go. We'd welcome all sentient creatures that are made by God, earthly or not. [00:11:53] Speaker A: And much as on St. Francis Day, you bless animals. So maybe we'll have a different day. [00:11:58] Speaker B: For the blessing of aliens. Well, we don't want to be too uninclusive. So just in case they're here, they should know that they have a blessing. [00:12:05] Speaker A: Oh, they're welcome anytime. [00:12:06] Speaker B: Why don't we put some pictures of aliens up in front of the church on that day? [00:12:09] Speaker A: Okay. [00:12:10] Speaker B: And we could make it the 51st day of the year and we could say this is an area for you. [00:12:16] Speaker A: So, yeah, we're looking at sometime in February 20th or so. Okay. So somewhere around February 20th kind of coincides somewhere close to Family Day. [00:12:23] Speaker B: You are welcome. [00:12:24] Speaker A: Okay. [00:12:24] Speaker B: Just as the sign on the church says welcome home, come on over, Alias, we will welcome you. But I'm just being honest with you. The Church has not said that they exist. Like the Church also says, let's look to science. I would say science is not proven, in my opinion, their existence. [00:12:41] Speaker A: And when I. I didn't know that Pope Francis had made that reference. And that's kind of a cool kind of angle and a good all encompassing view for it. Wow. Okay. That was a much more complex answer than I thought we were going to have today. [00:12:53] Speaker B: Hopefully it wasn't too much for you. [00:12:55] Speaker A: Oh, gosh, no. I think I can hang on to that one and process it. All right, beautiful. It is time for our resource of the week. And let's hit with the twelve days of Christmas. So as I understand, this is a method to keep Christianity alive in times of persecution. And so we're shifting from the octave of Christmas to the season of Christmas. The 12 days start on the 25th, and we'll wrap up on January 6th. Now, I've got a list of what the 12 are. Is it time to quiz you? [00:13:28] Speaker B: I will fail, but go for it. [00:13:29] Speaker A: Oh, okay. We'll give you an easy one. Day. Four. [00:13:32] Speaker B: Ah, the four gospels. Okay, but what are the. What's the scripture? [00:13:35] Speaker A: Four evangelists. [00:13:36] Speaker B: Okay, fair enough. Same thing for me. I equate them as pretty much the same four gospels, four evangelists, but. Yeah, what is. What's in the song? In the four. [00:13:44] Speaker A: What, four calling birds. [00:13:47] Speaker B: Okay, okay. Yeah. And I think that's because, like. Yeah, it makes more sense than to say evangelist, because the evangelists are calling us to follow Christ. Because that song was written, as you said, to communicate the faith. [00:14:01] Speaker A: Ten. [00:14:02] Speaker B: So ten lords, a leaping. [00:14:03] Speaker A: Ten lords, a leaping. [00:14:07] Speaker B: Ten commandments. Yeah. [00:14:08] Speaker A: Okay. I'm not sure how that one would translate. I don't know directly. [00:14:10] Speaker B: I'm not sure. Maybe it's. Yeah, I don't know. Okay, maybe like, each commandment is so lordly. [00:14:17] Speaker A: Fair enough. Six. Which is today, by the way. On January 3rd or December 30th, the day of recording. [00:14:26] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:14:28] Speaker A: Six days of creation. [00:14:29] Speaker B: Ah, okay. [00:14:29] Speaker A: Okay, so that was a cool. And I didn't know that one either. [00:14:31] Speaker B: Seven is the seven sacraments. [00:14:33] Speaker A: Seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. [00:14:34] Speaker B: Is that right? [00:14:35] Speaker A: Could be seven sacraments. The source I had. It had some pretty Catholic music playing in the background, so I took it as being true. [00:14:41] Speaker B: Fair enough. Fair enough. [00:14:43] Speaker A: Let's see. [00:14:44] Speaker B: Seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. Eight Beatitudes. Eight beatitudes of angels. Eleven faithful apostles. Oh, okay. Twelve basic beliefs. Oh, yeah. From the apostles. [00:14:52] Speaker A: Twelve articles of the Creed, two. Two natures of Christ or the Old and New Testaments. And three, the theoretical theological virtues, Faith, hope, and love. [00:15:04] Speaker B: Okay, here we go. [00:15:06] Speaker A: And five first five books of the Old Testament. The Pentateuch. [00:15:10] Speaker B: Excellent. Okay, good stuff. [00:15:12] Speaker A: Okey dokey. Wow. Holy cow. What a week. I mean, we just had a big birthday party for Jesus. [00:15:17] Speaker B: Amen. [00:15:17] Speaker A: And now we get to celebrate his mom. Yeah, the first birthday party for any child should be for the mom, right? Because the kid can't even pronounce birthday yet. [00:15:29] Speaker B: We should always celebrate moms. Moms are awesome. Thanks, moms, for being awesome. [00:15:32] Speaker A: Okay, and now January 1st is the solemnity of Mary. And it's one of the two holy days of obligation. Why only two? [00:15:44] Speaker B: Well, I think. I can't remember if it's six or something like that is the universal list of them. But each region conference of bishops gets to choose which of those are applicable as holy days of obligation in their country. Now, also, we can say that each Sunday is, in a sense, a holy day of obligation, too. Right. But in Canada, the only two that are not on a Sunday is Christmas and New Year's. Now, because a lot of the what are normally holy days of obligation in Canada are already translated as Sunday. They just kind of become wrapped into the regular Sunday obligation, like Corpus Christi. Blanking right now on some of the other ones. But a lot of them get moved. [00:16:28] Speaker A: But they haven't gotten the formal statement because they're already on a Sunday. [00:16:32] Speaker B: I don't know if that's part of the Interesting. [00:16:34] Speaker A: Okay, that'd be something we can check into and come back to next week. So we also are leading into the epiphany. Now, do we know when this happened? I was thinking of the shepherd's experience. Savior's born. Hey, let's go follow. Let's go see him. And then wham. Takes off to Egypt. [00:16:54] Speaker B: To Egypt? [00:16:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:56] Speaker B: What? [00:16:57] Speaker A: Didn't Jesus take him off to Egypt because Herod was on his way? [00:17:00] Speaker B: Yeah, but not immediately. Like, I think you're asking me for a projected timeline, so. Projected timeline, it's hard to know for certain, at least for me. But obviously, when the angels appear to the shepherds, say, today is born for you. Right. So it's obviously December 25th, and that number is accessible biblically from the date of when John the Baptist's father was in the temple, if you do a lot of math. So I've heard that. I'm pretty convinced by that. In any case, if we assume December 25th is the date on which Christ is born, therefore, also the shepherds. The shepherds go there and they find the child. And I don't think it's like, if they're watching their fields in that area. I don't think it's unreasonable to think they were there within 24 hours. [00:17:49] Speaker A: Yes. Okay, fair enough. [00:17:50] Speaker B: I think that's reasonable. Obviously, the magi might be different because the Magi, they. Their timing is like. I'm not sure if the magi were usually. We don't think the magi were there that very same day. Maybe it is the case. I don't know. But it's often considered that maybe they're a little delayed. Right. They arrived at the epiphany. Right. Which is, you know, 12 days later. [00:18:12] Speaker A: Okay. [00:18:12] Speaker B: So I think it's quite reasonable to say that's a projected timeline. Is that. Yeah, maybe 12 days or so, give or take. After Christmas, the magi found Jesus and he was revealed to them, who symbolized the whole world and therefore, epiphany, which means revealing, is like commemorating that revelation of Christ to the nations. Okay. But you go ahead and then be. [00:18:38] Speaker A: Patient, everybody, because although it's been revealed, you will not feel the majesty for a while. [00:18:45] Speaker B: That's right. That's right. It's revealed, but not in full form. [00:18:49] Speaker A: Gosh. Yeah. That's sort of kind of what my tongue in cheek reaction was. Like, the shepherds are falling and this is the Savior. Wow, he's a tiny baby. What's he gonna do? And then they got a wing. [00:19:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:19:05] Speaker A: I guess shepherds are used to waiting and watching. [00:19:07] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess so. But I said if a bunch of angels told me this was the savior of the world, I'd be pretty excited. Even if he was a baby, I'd be like, sweet, we're here for his birthday. [00:19:16] Speaker A: Wow. [00:19:17] Speaker B: The Savior of the world's birthday right here. I'd be like, guys, let's party it up. Why not? Angels are telling us. [00:19:26] Speaker A: And I love how you clarified in your prayer that he was born a tiny baby, because it could have been really quite awkward otherwise. [00:19:33] Speaker B: He was born as a baby, and babies are usually small most in our experience. [00:19:39] Speaker A: Okay. All right, Father, we're in a really busy season. There's so much happening in our community, and our parishioners can check out our bulletin or IHMCHURCH ca check that out every day. For everyone else out there, what are some of the highlights of the coming weeks that you want to showcase? Any big travel coming up, perhaps? [00:19:57] Speaker B: Oh, hey, speaking of travel, well, you can't help but lead me right into our commenting on our pilgrimage in May that I'm going on to Spain, Portugal, and France. That's exciting. Really pumped up about that. I don't know if JD is coming with me or not. [00:20:13] Speaker A: I think I am. [00:20:14] Speaker B: Oh, that'd be amazing. I would love if you can come. That'd be so much fun. That'd be great. We're just starting our advertising if you want to come. I think it's May. Do you remember the dates? It's in the middle of May, towards the end. Yes, we'll find that out soon. I mean, I have it. I could probably look it up. [00:20:32] Speaker A: Okay, I'll look it up. You Talk, you talk about events, fair enough. [00:20:34] Speaker B: But any case, we've got that which is very exciting. If you want to come with us to see Lourdes, if you want to go and see Fatima and see where Mary appeared to the children, if you want to go to Spain and see some really key Catholic sites there, then you have just got your invitation to come with us. And not only us, Father Jeff Ehring, who's a good priest friend of mine as well. And we are going to have a wonderful time with Mass every day seeing amazing Catholic sites and we are going to really encounter God in a beautiful way, seeing where he has worked and Mother Mary has worked in Salvation history. [00:21:10] Speaker A: From May 17th to 29th for the low, low cost of $59.95 per person, double occupancy, including round trip airfare taxes and fuel surcharges, deluxe air conditioning, coach 11 nights accommodation with breakfast and dinner, all city taxes and entrance fees for scheduled visits included dedicated tour escort and English speaking guides. Daily Mass terms and conditions apply. Objects may appear larger in person. [00:21:37] Speaker B: That's our hope. So. Yeah, exactly. That's fantastic. Thanks. [00:21:41] Speaker A: Okay, excellent. [00:21:42] Speaker B: In terms of other stuff, we've got New Year's as we mentioned, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God from our filming time right now, that's tomorrow night and the next day to start the year off right with our Lord and Our Lady. And then this week, thankfully is a slightly less intense week. I'm hoping I can catch up on some things. But on Saturday night, the diocesan young adults thing is happening at Our lady of the Annunciation, Hamilton. I'll be there. And also on. Ooh. Yeah, well, we have in the old calendar, January 6th is the epiphany. And so I'll be blessing some special water the night before. Some epiphany water and yeah, all the things in the bulletin. We've got our youth night coming up. We're going to replace our monthly young adults night with the diocesan one. And we're also partnering, partnering with St. Ann's to have a special young adults night where we're going to go skating. We'll do some other fun stuff. We also have our volunteer appreciation gathering. So. [00:22:47] Speaker A: So lots of things to keep an eye out for and stuff for people of all ages in fact. So just check out the bulletin to find out anything that you would like to participate in and please join this welcoming group. And all of these things don't happen alone. They all happen in conjunction with the great work of volunteers in the parish. And every week. I love that you Recognize someone or a group in particular. And who would you like to shout out to the sweet Father? [00:23:15] Speaker B: I think that the group that. One of the groups that deserves a shout out would be our altar servers especially. They turned out in such great abundance over the Christmas Masses. At midnight Mass, we had nine altar servers, which was just wonderful. We also had the best music I've heard at mass in a long time at midnight. It was wonderful. And our musicians are also just continuing to up their game, and it's beautiful to see that as well. So. So shout out both to all the altar servers and all the musicians. You make our worship so much better. [00:23:44] Speaker A: Excellent. To the altar servers. [00:23:46] Speaker B: To the altar service. [00:23:49] Speaker A: And I love how you had seminarian Peter walk around with baby Jesus during your homily. I'm not sure how you two coordinated your time because he wrapped up. [00:23:58] Speaker B: Oh, I think he just figured when I was done, he was time to go back. [00:24:02] Speaker A: Oh, gosh, I was good. [00:24:03] Speaker B: I didn't tell him until the. It happened at the 4pm Mass. Actually, to be honest with you, it just occurred to me during the 4pm Mass. [00:24:09] Speaker A: That was brilliant. That was brilliant. [00:24:11] Speaker B: Must have been a Holy Spirit inspiration. [00:24:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Cool. All right. Well, that is just about all the time we have for today. Thank you for your insights, Father. Let's close with a prayer. [00:24:19] Speaker B: Sure. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Heavenly Father, thank you for your countless blessings and all the ways you speak to each of us day by day in our lives, seeking to guide us, comfort us, inspire us, and embrace us. Grant that in this Christmas season we may receive your love more and more and allow it to fill us with peace, love and joy and then share it in our daily lives with the regular people we see or the irregular people we see. May our love shine more and more the light of Christ through us. May you bless our listeners and guide us always. We pray this in Jesus name. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. [00:24:57] Speaker A: Thank you for that. Wow. What an episode. Well, thank you so much, Father. Thank you for lending us your voice and your vocation. This was an act of holy communication, I'm sure. Thanks also to our fans and friends and odds and ends for joining us this week on the Immaculate Heart of Mary social media channels, the Apple podcasts, the Spotify and the YouTubes. If you like our show, subscribe and tell your friends. And if you don't like our show, tell your friends anyway and let them discern for themselves. [00:25:23] Speaker B: If you don't like our show, at least come and tell me. And then tell me what can be better. [00:25:26] Speaker A: Oh, perfect suggestion. Until next time, stay holy, stay hopeful, say your prayers, and hey, don't forget to tip your priest with a smile. And Hail Mary. Have a great day, everyone. We are Father Greg and JD Leaving you smarter, happier and more blessed than you were yesterday.

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