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Good News #213 050926: Bears, Baptisms, and Backyard Miracles · Catholic Spirit Radio

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  Welcome to Good News on Catholic Spirit Radio, a program for teens and almost
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  teens to better understand that the gospel of Jesus Christ is relevant in their lives.
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  And it's a place where your questions about faith and religion can be answered.
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  And now, here's your host, Deacon Al.
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  Good evening, and welcome to Good News on Catholic Spirit Radio.
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  I am Deacon Al Lundy, a permanent deacon of the Peoria Diocese,
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  here with you every Saturday and Sunday evening from 8 to 8.30 as we look at
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  the good news of Jesus Christ through the readings of this weekend's Mass.
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  This is the sixth Sunday of Easter. We're just a couple weeks away from Pentecost,
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  and our readings are kind of building up to that event, and you'll see that
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  as we get into them in just a little bit.
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  What's going on in my life? Well, let's see. Praise to God that my nephew is home safe.
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  Gabriel was on a submarine. His first tour on a submarine is an ensign.
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  He was sailing out of Oahu, out of Pearl, and ended up going to Guam.
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  And from Guam, went on a little sail jaunt and took part in Operation, was it something, Fury?
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  Yes. I can't think of the name. Epic Fury. Took part in Operation Epic Fury.
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  You heard of an enemy vessel that was sunk by a torpedo, the first ship sunk
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  by a torpedo since World War II.
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  Well, that was my nephew's submarine.
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  So for his first time out, he had quite a bit of excitement.
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  I can't wait to hear his stories when he gets back.
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  But while he was gone, he got a promotion. He is now Lieutenant Junior Grade.
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  And he got his dolphins. And for anybody who's interested in naval stuff,
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  naval trivia, dolphins are awarded to submariners.
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  Who proved themselves useful. That means they know enough on the operation of
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  a submarine to be useful. So he got his dolphins and he got elevated to Lieutenant J.G.
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  So congratulations, Gabriel, and glad to have you home safely, my boy.
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  And hope you're going to, hope you'll stay in Pearl for a little while.
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  Hope you'll get a chance, because he's getting married soon.
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  He's getting married this summer.
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  I am supposed to go to, unfortunately not to Oahu, they're getting married back
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  in Boston, where the bride lives and the groom's family, my youngest brother
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  lives, and they're getting married in the Boston area.
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  So I get to go to Boston to take part in the marriage ceremony,
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  deaconing the mass. So I'm looking forward to that.
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  Just a sharp young man, and we're very proud of his service to our country,
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  but we're very grateful to God that he came home safely. Backyard is blooming.
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  Front yard's blooming. The whole garden, the whole yard is blooming.
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  Been enough rain and enough sunshine.
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  No, I had very little freeze damage. John asked, it didn't freeze?
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  Because we've had some cold nights.
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  I had some early lilies, some what we call resurrection lilies, lady slippers.
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  They've got all kinds of names that had some freeze damage, but that's okay
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  because they don't send up their flowers till like August.
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  So it's just a little leaf damage. They look kind of motley,
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  but they'll be fine. They're still green and they'll flower.
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  But peonies are open. Geraniums are open.
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  I've got irises, all kinds of irises that have flowered already.
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  Looking great. Yard's looking great. And it's so thick and lush and green.
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  And the birds. We've talked about birds before.
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  So about a week ago, I decided I hadn't seen any, but let's give it a try.
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  I put out an oriole feeder and a hummingbird feeder.
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  And three days later, at the same time, and they're on the same shepherd's hook.
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  And this is a double hook.
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  So one hook has a hummingbird feeder. One hook has the Oriole feeder.
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  What is an Oriole feeder, you ask? Well, you slice an orange,
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  and you put the orange halves on a stick, on a steak, and then you put a bowl of grape jelly.
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  Grape jelly, can you believe that? And not only do the Orioles like it,
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  it turns out some of the sparrows are into grape jelly.
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  I like them better in a in a good red sauce but no sorry the thought of sparrows
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  and grape jelly anyway so you put out a little bowl of grape jelly and a couple
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  of oranges and it attracts.
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  Orioles so i i got baltimore orioles and hummingbirds at the same time hanging
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  on the same they have them both clustered there that was very cool to see,
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  And I've got all kinds, I've got all kinds of birds in my backyard.
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  And what they don't eat, they knock to the ground and the squirrels and the
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  rabbits and the ducks are eating.
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  So my wife got up the other morning and she had to wake me up to come look out
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  the window. Because she says, it looks like a fairy tale.
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  We had in the backyard, we had mallards and rabbits and squirrels and cardinals
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  and mourning doves and Carolina wrens.
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  Just all kinds of critters all at once in the backyard. Just first thing,
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  it was just like an hour after sunup. It was gorgeous.
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  It was really great. And it was noisy with all the birds singing.
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  And it was just, it was very cool.
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  And then the neighbor's cat wandered into the yard.
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  And we had one more thing in the backyard, my wife chasing the cat away from
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  all of the other wildlife.
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  But yeah, so things are growing. I love seeing, you know, here's the thing.
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  And I'll only get on my soapbox for a minute.
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  We see a lot of young people returning to church, and it's not just our parish.
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  I've talked to some of my brother deacons from other parishes.
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  They're seeing the same thing.
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  Huge increase in high school and college age, young men and women coming to
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  Mass and taking part in the activities at the church, which I love to see.
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  And we also get from where we're at, we're near a couple of colleges,
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  so we're now getting quite a few.
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  Students from Illinois Wesleyan, Illinois State University coming to Mass.
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  And it's interesting because Illinois State has a very active Newman Center.
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  They pack the place, Sunday Masses. I mean, they pack the place.
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  And so to see 15, 20 students at a time coming to Mass has been really great.
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  Just seeing them outdoors. So here's my soapbox.
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  Turn off the computer, get outside. God has created for us a gorgeous world.
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  I mean, if you want to see God, if you have trouble finding God in your life,
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  get away from the computer and
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  the TV and the monitors and get outside and look at what God has created.
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  This is a beautiful world.
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  I know I have a lot of friends who, when they plan vacations,
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  you know, they're going to resorts and they're sitting out at the beach,
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  getting a tan, you know, partying, whatever. And that's fine.
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  However you want to spend your time. Okay, your leisure time.
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  My wife and I prefer, and my brothers are like this as well,
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  we prefer going to like national parks and nature sites, seeing wild animals
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  up close, getting photographs,
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  seeing the Grand Canyon and the mountains and the rivers.
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  We would much rather spend our time out hiking in nature.
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  My youngest brother last, was it last fall, last summer, spent like two weeks
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  hiking through the highlands of Scotland.
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  He and his wife and his college-age son, two weeks, I mean, just hiking from
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  town to town through the highlands, raining almost constantly. It is Scotland.
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  It rains like constantly. Every picture he sends me, you know,
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  look at the deer in the background behind us through the rain.
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  And, you know, look at the waterfall behind us through the rain.
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  They're always in their rain gear and slickers.
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  But yeah, they get out into nature and they see this gorgeous world that God has created for us.
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  And if you're sitting in your house, no wonder you feel separated from God.
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  You are, because God didn't make your furniture.
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  He didn't paint your walls. No, God didn't do the flooring.
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  God didn't do the computer monitor, things like that. No, I'm sorry.
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  He might have given the creativity to human beings to do it,
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  but you get outside and this is God's handiwork. This is stuff that he touched,
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  you know, that he created, he made through his word.
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  To me, that's just, that's mind-boggling. It's breathtaking.
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  And I just love doing that.
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  We've got a few trips, short trips coming up this year, a couple of them to
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  see family and one of them to go see grizzly bears.
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  I'm telling you, I'm anxious about this. This is crazy. Why would I want to
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  walk through a forest with grizzly bears?
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  Don't know, but everything I read says, don't worry, they don't care about you.
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  They're too busy eating the fish.
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  So as long as I don't carry a tuna sandwich in my pocket, I think I'll be okay.
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  But no, we're going out to see grizzlies up close and personal because they're
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  God's creations too, right?
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  So we are taking some precautions. We're going to pick up some bear spray along the way.
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  You can't take it on the airlines. I don't know why, but they won't let us take it on the airplanes.
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  But there's actually, there's a store right outside the airport when we land
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  where you can pick up your bear spray.
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  Imagine that. You rent it. Now, here's something weird.
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  Now, I thought I'd done a lot of cool traveling, right? And learned a lot of
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  neat stuff. And I travel mostly in the U.S.
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  My wife and I have left the U.S. one time. But we're going to an area that's got a lot of bears.
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  So there's a store that rents bear spray, holster, everything.
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  Because they said, don't put it in your backpack and don't put it in your pocket
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  because the bear's not going to wait for you. You know, you got to have it ready.
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  So there's a holster that puts it, you put it in the holster and,
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  and you rent it. And when you, when you're done, you bring it back.
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  And if you haven't used it, you get half your rental back.
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  And if you used it, well, you're out of luck. You've paid for it already.
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  It's now you give the holster back and, you know, the next guy down the road gets a new can of spray.
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  Yeah, but hopefully don't have to use it.
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  But I think if I'm going to go walking through the forest where there's grizzly
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  bears, I'm going to take some spray with me. Right.
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  Right, and they're not going to let me carry the gun on the plane either.
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  I'm pretty sure. Yeah, pretty sure.
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  But no i'm i'm this is some of the wildest stuff we've seen a lot of weird wild animals,
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  but i've never i've never been i've been close to
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  a bear once yellowstone he was he was
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  actually eating an elk and he was
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  on a hillside about about a hundred yards
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  away from us this is a big bear and he's
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  ripping open the thigh of an of a of an
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  elk right and there's like 200 of us standing
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  around taking pictures and the
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  bear turns to look at the crowd and he
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  doesn't just turn his head he turns his body around now he's
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  uphill bears run pretty fast and they can run downhill even faster than they
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  can and they can run uphill really fast this bear can probably do i mean there's
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  no brush or anything this is just open field so he can do 35 miles an hour easy
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  so to cover less than a football field.
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  I mean, in a flash, right? So he turns around.
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  And so my wife and my son and I, well, I grab a hold of my wife and my son by
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  the arm and I start backing them up to the car.
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  We are the only three moving backwards. The other 197 people are trying to walk
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  toward the bear to get a better picture.
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  And I'm thinking, I don't know what the bear sees, but I think you guys look delicious from here.
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  You know, the bear has got to be thinking the same thing. Luckily,
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  he decided I could chase down the moving ones, or I could just sit here and
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  munch on the one that I've already killed.
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  And he turned back around and went back to the elk. and the ranger who shows
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  up is warning everybody, get back to your cars. Get everybody back to your cars.
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  This thing was really close. So I have seen one grizzly bear once,
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  but now we're talking about seeing dozens and being out in the forest walking
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  to a river that the bears are walking to.
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  And the hope is that they're more interested in the fish in the river than in the hikers.
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  I don't know. We'll find out. No one's ever, No one on this same location has
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  ever been attacked by a grizzly before.
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  Yet, yet, yet. But there's always, always the first one, right?
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  So anyway, that's what's going on with me. Bears and plants and submarines and flowers.
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  That all makes sense, right? It all ties together.
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  Get outside. Go see God's handiwork. We're going to learn more about God's handiwork
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  when we come back after just a couple of messages.
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  We're going to look at the readings from the sixth Sunday of Easter.
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  And welcome back to Good News. I'm Deacon Al Lundy.
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  We're looking at this weekend's readings from the Mass, pardon me,
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  and point out a couple things ahead of time for our first reading from the Acts
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  of the Apostles, which we've been hearing from for the last few weeks.
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  Last week, we heard about the creation of the diaconate, where Peter and the
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  apostles said, go pick out some, I told the priests and the elders,
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  go pick out some men, seven men from the community who are just and upright
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  men, and we're going to ordain them.
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  We're going to lay hands on them, and they will be servants to the widows of
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  the area while we preach and say the Mass.
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  And so they picked out the seven men. Well, among them was Stephen,
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  who you might remember is the first martyr of the Catholic Church who died at the hands of St.
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  Paul before he was St. Paul when he was Paul of Tarsus, Saul of Tarsus, sorry.
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  But one of the other seven was a fellow named Philip, not to be confused with
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  the Apostle Philip. This is the Deacon Philip.
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  And we hear something about Philip in today's reading.
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  And in this, you learn a little bit about church history and about how the church
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  hasn't changed much in 2,000 years.
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  You wonder, why do we do the things we do? Well, it's in Scripture.
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  And I'll explain that after you hear this reading.
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  So this is from the eighth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles.
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  Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them.
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  With one accord, the crowds paid attention to what was said by Philip.
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  When they heard it and saw the signs he was doing for unclean spirits,
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  crying out in a loud voice came out of many possessed people,
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  and many paralyzed or crippled people were cured, there was great joy in the city.
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  Now, when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word
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  of God, they sent them Peter and John, who went down and prayed for them,
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  that they might receive the Holy Spirit.
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  For it had not yet fallen upon any of them. They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
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  Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
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  So what did we learn from this? Philip, a deacon, is off to Samaria,
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  which is mostly Greek, so it wasn't even a Jewish community,
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  this is a Greek community,
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  a Gentile community, and he's preaching the Gospels.
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  And he's doing other things as well. He's healing the sick. He's casting out demons.
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  All the kinds of things that Jesus had just said last week.
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  He told his disciples, yes, I've done these things, but you're going to do these
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  and even greater things.
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  So here we have not even an apostle or a priest, but a deacon is out curing
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  the sick and exercising deacons, exercising demons and baptizing.
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  Well, deacons still baptize.
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  We still do all these things. We still preach. We still baptize.
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  We can still give blessings to the sick. We can still minister to the sick.
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  But he didn't bring the Holy Spirit down upon them. He didn't confirm them in the Holy Spirit.
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  That had to be done by Peter and John, apostles, bishops.
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  Even in today's church, deacons can baptize and preach, but we don't confirm
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  that has to be done by the bishop or by someone appointed by a priest appointed by the bishop.
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  And so we see that same thing happening 2000 years ago.
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  So that hasn't changed. The church maintains pretty much everything we did 2000 years ago.
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  The way we were structured then is still how we're structured today. Our second reading.
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  Is, again, from the first letter of St. Paul, as they've been for the last couple of weeks.
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  Paul writes, Beloved, sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts.
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  Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks for a reason for your hope.
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  But do it with gentleness and reverence, keeping your conscience clear,
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  so that when you are maligned, those who defame your good conduct in Christ,
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  may themselves be put to shame.
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  For it's better to suffer for doing good, if that is the will of God, than for doing evil.
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  For Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the sake of the unrighteous.
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  Then he might lead you to God. Put to death in flesh, he was brought to life in the Spirit.
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  So, once again, this is talking about confirmation, about being able to answer
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  questions about your faith.
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  Anyone who's been through confirmation now in the Catholic Church should have
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  had enough formation to understand their faith and be able to share that faith
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  with others and to explain any falsehoods that might arise.
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  So again, what we do today and how the Church functions today is very much the
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  same way it functioned in apostolic times.
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  Our reading from the Gospel is from John.
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  This is from chapter 14. Jesus said to his disciples, If you love me,
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  you will keep my commandments.
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  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to be with
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  you always, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept,
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  because it neither sees nor knows him.
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  But you know him, because he remains with you and will be in you.
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  I will not leave you orphans.
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  I will come to you. In a little while, the world will no longer see me.
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  But you will see me because I live and you will live.
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  On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I in you.
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  Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me.
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  And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal
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  myself to him. The Gospel of the Lord.
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  So once again, what we're talking about in this final reading of the Mass in
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  this Gospel is confirmation.
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  This is setting us up for what's going to be the first Pentecost in the Catholic Church.
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  Pentecost meaning 50 days. So 50 days after the resurrection,
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  Jesus is going to appear. We celebrate this in two weeks on the 24th of May.
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  Jesus will appear in a locked room, upper room, with the apostles and several of the disciples.
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  And he will breathe on them and the Holy Spirit will settle on them as if like tongues of fire.
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  So we hear the Holy Spirit being described as tongues of fire,
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  as floating down from heaven like a dove, as towers of flame.
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  So that always seems to refer to, whenever we hear that, it refers to the Holy Spirit.
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  So in confirmation, the gifts of the Holy Spirit are reignited in us from our
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  baptism and brought to fruition.
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  And Jesus does that for his disciples at the first Pentecost of our faith.
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  And so he's reminding the disciples, the apostles, now that.
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  Even though the world won't see Jesus, and the world, unfortunately,
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  still doesn't see Jesus, that they'll be able to see him.
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  They will be able to acknowledge his presence because Christ exists in us,
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  and he's in us through our baptism and through our confirmation and through our faith.
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  If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
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  Anyone who doesn't keep the commandments cannot claim to be Christian.
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  They can't claim to follow Christ if they don't obey what Christ said. And what did he say?
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  To forgive your enemies, to forgive those who trespass against you,
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  to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, to visit the imprisoned,
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  the locked in, the people who are in need of Christ's love.
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  That love doesn't come just from Christ. It comes from Christ through us,
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  we are expected to be the hands and the heart and the mind of Christ.
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  So when people see the way we behave, they should see Christ among them.
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  So I guess the question for you to ask yourself this week is,
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  how do you reflect Christ in your everyday life, in how you treat your friends,
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  in how you treat your enemies, in how you treat your family,
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  your parents, your siblings, your children.
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  Your grandchildren, your neighbor.
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  How we treat others is how we believe in the love of Christ.
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  And we can expect the same mercy and the same forgiveness and the same love
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  from Christ that we're willing to share with others.
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  I think a great story I heard once was a little girl talking to her mother and
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  said, Mommy, is it true that Jesus is bigger than the whole world? And she said, Yes.
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  God is greater than the whole world, bigger than everything.
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  And she says, and is it true that Jesus is inside us?
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  And mom says, yeah, you know, if you love Jesus, if you obey Jesus, then he resides in you.
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  And the little girl says, well, if Jesus is bigger than the world and he's in
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  us, shouldn't he show through?
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  Yeah, well, yes, he should. He should.
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  If you believe in who Christ is, and we do, and you accept that Christ should
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  be within you, then Christ should show through you.
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  And so as Christians, that's our calling. That's our responsibility.
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  And it's a big calling and it's a big task. But we're made ready for that through
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  our relationship with Christ, which comes through prayer and through worship.
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  And the point in our lives where those two things meet is at the Mass in the house of God.
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  So I invite you all to attend Mass each and every week and to do your best to
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  let Christ show through you.
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  May Almighty God bless you, protect you from all evil, and bring you to everlasting life.
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  Good News on Catholic Spirit Radio, a program for teens and almost teens to
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  better understand that the gospel of Jesus Christ is relevant in your life.
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