Latest / Catholic Spirit Radio / Good News #189 090625: Saints and the Dignity of Work

Transcript

Good News #189 090625: Saints and the Dignity of Work · Catholic Spirit Radio

• 0:00
  Welcome to Good News on Catholic Spirit Radio, a program for teens and almost
• 0:04
  teens to better understand that the gospel of Jesus Christ is relevant in their
• 0:08
  lives, and it's a place where your questions about faith and religion can be answered.
• 0:13
  And now, here's your host, Deacon Al.
• 0:16
  Good evening, and welcome to Good News on Catholic Spirit Radio.
• 0:20
  I am Deacon Al Lundy, a permanent deacon of the Peoria Diocese,
• 0:24
  and we come to you every Saturday and Sunday evening on Catholic Spirit Radio
• 0:28
  to bring you the good news of Jesus Christ,
• 0:30
  the gospel of our Lord, that we hear during our Mass on the weekends,
• 0:34
  and during the week even.
• 0:36
  And we talk about this weekend's Mass and what the readings mean to us and how
• 0:40
  they affect us in our lives.
• 0:42
  So this is the 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time.
• 0:46
  It's hard to believe we're into September already. Things are just kind of rushing
• 0:51
  through us this year. It feels like a four-month year.
• 0:54
  Like we just got rid of we just got over christmas and
• 0:57
  we're knocking on the door to easter already just going
• 1:00
  so so fast but uh we had labor day
• 1:03
  this week and i hope you had a good labor day i hope you got a chance to have
• 1:08
  the day off some people didn't but hopefully a lot of you did and but mostly
• 1:12
  i hope you took time to give thanks to god for the work that you have for the
• 1:17
  work you want For those of you who are unemployed or underemployed,
• 1:21
  hopefully you will have your prayers answered to have the income and the work that you need.
• 1:28
  And there's a dignity to work. There's dignity to labor.
• 1:31
  That's something you should want to do is to be active in your lives and to
• 1:35
  be productive in your lives.
• 1:37
  It's also a good time for employers to think about how they treat laborers.
• 1:41
  Because as I say, there's a dignity to work, but there's also a dignity for the worker.
• 1:47
  It's important to remember that at the end of our lives, for those of you who
• 1:52
  are employers, no one at the gates of heaven is going to ask you what your markup
• 1:56
  was or what your profit margin was or how did you do third quarter.
• 2:01
  Those questions aren't going to come up. It really doesn't matter.
• 2:04
  I mean, it's great that you've been successful. I mean, that's wonderful.
• 2:08
  God bless you for being able to do that.
• 2:11
  It takes a real skill to be an employer, especially in these days.
• 2:16
  This economy to be a business owner.
• 2:18
  It's a very difficult job, but it's not about what you do that matters.
• 2:25
  It's about who you are. Are you forgiving?
• 2:28
  Do you have gratitude for your blessings? Are you charitable with the things that you have?
• 2:35
  That's what God's going to look at, not your earnings for the quarter.
• 2:40
  So it's great to have a good business and be good to add it,
• 2:45
  but it's better that you be a good disciple.
• 2:49
  So how do you treat others? How do you treat the people you serve with your
• 2:52
  product or service? How do you treat your employees?
• 2:55
  That's what really matters. So make sure that that's what your real effort goes to.
• 3:01
  And hopefully the success will be partially a result of the way you treat others.
• 3:08
  So again, happy Labor Day. Big weekend this weekend for the church.
• 3:13
  Sunday, we're canonizing two new saints, really wonderful young men.
• 3:18
  They lived about a century apart, but they had a lot in common.
• 3:21
  So we had St. Carlo Acutis and St. Pierre Giorgio Frisati.
• 3:27
  These were both young men who were truly in love with the Eucharist,
• 3:32
  great defenders of the Catholic faith, great evangelists. Certainly most of
• 3:37
  the attention is being paid to St.
• 3:39
  Carlo Acutis, a young man who was very active on the internet and had a huge
• 3:46
  following and was a great defender of the Catholic faith, even as a young boy.
• 3:50
  And great love for the body and
• 3:53
  blood of Christ and spoke eloquently on his YouTube and Facebook and things
• 3:59
  of that sort of his love for his Catholic faith and for his God and died at
• 4:06
  a very young age and is the first millennial who's being canonized.
• 4:11
  So that's really quite an event, especially if you're a young person today who
• 4:16
  was affected by the words and the actions of Carlos. I'm not going to go through
• 4:20
  the process of becoming a saint.
• 4:22
  There's a lot of controversy, especially among non-Catholics, about that.
• 4:26
  But I just want to clarify what a saint is, because there seems to be a lot
• 4:31
  of questions about that.
• 4:33
  And a saint is someone, a canonized saint.
• 4:36
  First of all, a saint is anyone in the presence of God, in the beatific presence of God in heaven.
• 4:42
  They're a saint. A canonized saint, canonized merely means they've been added
• 4:47
  to a list. That's what a canon is. It's just, it's a list.
• 4:50
  Canon law is a list of church laws, okay?
• 4:54
  The canon of the Bible, the list of books included in the compendium of the Bible, that's a canon.
• 5:01
  So a canon is merely a list. So when we say a saint has been canonized,
• 5:05
  it means they've been added to a special list that the church keeps of people
• 5:09
  who they believe have proven that they are in the presence of God.
• 5:14
  And they prove that through different ways.
• 5:16
  One way is through the way they lived their life. What is the example they set?
• 5:21
  What we look for in a saint is life of heroic virtue.
• 5:27
  I think if you look at the biography of Carlos, you would see that.
• 5:31
  You look at any of the saints, any of the canonized saints, you will see a very
• 5:37
  holy life, not necessarily a life that began holy, but a life that became holy.
• 5:42
  And through that, they were able to not only grow closer to Christ,
• 5:47
  but to bring others closer to Christ. These are our heroes.
• 5:50
  This is our hall of famers, as it were for our Catholic faith.
• 5:54
  The church says, here are people that we believe.
• 5:57
  Have come into the presence of God because of this.
• 6:01
  And they give the evidence for that sainthood.
• 6:07
  So all the saints you hear about, they're worth investigating.
• 6:10
  There's some wonderful books that give short biographies of the saints.
• 6:13
  I use one, Saint of the Day, that I look at nearly every day to read about the saint for that day.
• 6:20
  And there's some beautiful stories in there.
• 6:23
  And the large majority of them have all the evidence to back them up as to what
• 6:28
  they did in their life to be these heroes of virtue for us.
• 6:32
  So that's the sainthood. And so this weekend, we pray for Carlos and for Pietro
• 6:39
  and hope you will join the church in their celebration that these two fine young
• 6:45
  men are known to be now in the presence of our God.
• 6:49
  So just a little bit about sainthood and about what's going on in the church
• 6:53
  today. We're going to pause for just a few minutes.
• 6:55
  We're going to come back and look at the readings from the Mass on the 23rd
• 6:59
  Sunday of Ordinary Time. You're listening to Catholic Spirit Radio.
• 7:02
  Stay tuned. Good news will be right back on Catholic Spirit Radio.
• 7:06
  ICatholic Mobile is a 5G mobile phone company dedicated to supporting your faith
• 7:11
  and values, offering unlimited talk and text, reliable data,
• 7:15
  and plans that support Catholic causes.
• 7:18
  A portion of every dollar helps sustain the mission of the Catholic Spirit Radio Network.
• 7:23
  With nationwide coverage, iCatholic Mobile connects you to what matters most.
• 7:27
  More information is available at iCatholicMobile.com.
• 7:31
  ICatholic Mobile underwrites for the Catholic Spirit Radio Network.
• 7:38
  Landon, can I listen to Catholic Spirit Radio on Alexa? You bet,
• 7:41
  Grandpa. It's easy to set up and use.
• 7:43
  First, tell Alexa to enable the Catholic Spirit Radio skill.
• 7:46
  Alexa, enable the Catholic Spirit Radio skill.
• 7:49
  And from that time on, all you have to say is, Alexa, play Catholic Spirit Radio.
• 7:54
  Alexa, play Catholic Spirit Radio.
• 7:56
  That's it? Yep. You're right. That is easy. Thanks. Love ya, Grandpa.
• 8:03
  The Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hantsville, Alabama is an official
• 8:07
  Jubilee Year of Hope site.
• 8:09
  It's an ideal place to receive a plenary indulgence and for adoration with poor Claire nuns.
• 8:14
  Details at olamshrine.com.
• 8:19
  Catholic Spirit Radio has new listeners. Welcome to our new friends in the Whitewater,
• 8:23
  Wisconsin area, listening on 89.3.
• 8:25
  And welcome to our new friends in Central and Western Rockford, listening on 94.5.
• 8:29
  We're glad you've tuned in. Tell others.
• 8:31
  Thanks to our listeners, Catholic Spirit Radio Network has 12 stations inspiring,
• 8:35
  educating, and saving souls.
• 8:37
  Find your radio frequency or listen on our website, catholicspiritradio.com,
• 8:41
  or use Alexa or the app Catholic Spirit Talk Radio.
• 8:45
  The noble gift of our sexuality is not something to be demeaned.
• 8:50
  Regrettably, pornography, fornication, and adultery are rampant today.
• 8:56
  If we want to be influential as Catholic and moral leaders in the domestic church
• 9:00
  of our home, we must be chaste.
• 9:03
  We can't allow ourselves to be degraded, to lose our crucial power of spiritual
• 9:10
  leadership due to this sin.
• 9:12
  Our family needs us to be their moral heroes.
• 9:15
  We cannot submit to the temptation of unchastity.
• 9:20
  And if we should fall, we need to immediately repent, go to confession,
• 9:25
  and get back in the fight to be champions of chastity.
• 9:29
  We can't give an inch to these dark temptations. Pornography is always wrong and disordered.
• 9:36
  It unfailingly leaves its wound, doing grave harm to the user,
• 9:41
  his or her family, as well as the so-called performers who make pornography,
• 9:46
  who are dehumanized and used as objects of another's pleasure.
• 9:51
  With pornography, one takes pleasure
• 9:53
  at the expense of the degradation of others as well as one's self.
• 9:58
  Listen, quote, love takes no pleasure in other people's sins,
• 10:02
  but delights in the truth.
• 10:05
  First Corinthians 13, 6. You see, we are temples of the Holy Spirit,
• 10:09
  as are those involved in making pornography.
• 10:12
  Quote, your body, you know, is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
• 10:17
  First Corinthians 6, 19.
• 10:18
  We must win this fight at all costs. The stakes are too high.
• 10:23
  You and I are too good for unchastity. Mercifully, our Lord Jesus is there to
• 10:28
  do most of the fighting for us if we only turn to Him. Jesus is your champion.
• 10:34
  I'm Jim Littleton, forming FaithfulFamilies.com.
• 10:46
  And welcome back to Good News on Catholic Spirit Radio.
• 10:49
  I am Deacon Al Lundy, permanent deacon of the Peoria Diocese,
• 10:52
  and it's always a pleasure to speak to you.
• 10:55
  No matter what diocese you're in, we now reach four, perhaps a little bit into a fifth.
• 11:01
  It's great to have so many brother Catholics, brothers and sister Catholics, listening in.
• 11:06
  We hope you enjoy the programming here on Catholic Spirit Radio.
• 11:09
  If you do, know that we're here 24 hours a day, seven days a week,
• 11:13
  And we have a wonderful website, catholicspiritradio.org, where you can go and
• 11:18
  see all sorts of great information,
• 11:20
  regarding your Catholic faith, especially information about all the parishes,
• 11:24
  all the dioceses that we reach, the parishes, their activities, their mass times.
• 11:29
  Adoration times, opportunities for confession.
• 11:32
  It's all there on our website. And you can also listen to past programming from there.
• 11:36
  So be sure and tune in, and you can listen to the live programs.
• 11:40
  You can listen to our live stations from there. And you can listen in on Alexa,
• 11:45
  which I think is really cool, because then while you're working around the house,
• 11:48
  you can have Catholic Spirit Radio on in the background and be listening.
• 11:53
  Terrific programming all throughout the day. So we hope you'll join us that way as well.
• 11:57
  So our readings this weekend, 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, begin with the Book of Wisdom.
• 12:03
  And then we have a letter from St. Paul to Philemon. And Philemon's an interesting
• 12:07
  character. We'll talk about that a little bit later. and then our gospel is from the gospel of Luke.
• 12:14
  So let's get started and see what we have here. A reading from the book of Wisdom.
• 12:19
  Who can know God's counsel or who can conceive what the Lord intends?
• 12:24
  For the deliberations of mortals are timid and unsure are our plans.
• 12:29
  For the corruptible body burdens the soul.
• 12:32
  And the earth and shelter weighs down the mind that has many concerns.
• 12:36
  And scarce do we guess the things on earth and what is within our grasp we find with difficulty.
• 12:42
  But when things are in heaven, who can search them out?
• 12:46
  Or whoever knew your counsel except you who had given wisdom and sent your Holy Spirit from on high.
• 12:52
  And thus were the paths of those on earth made straight. The Word of the Lord.
• 12:57
  So in the book of wisdom coming from the Old Testament, We're being reminded
• 13:02
  of our human limitations as compared to God's unlimited authority, unlimited knowledge.
• 13:09
  Even the things we know about the world around us, we take centuries to discover,
• 13:16
  centuries to figure out.
• 13:18
  But we have such great wisdom out of the Old Testament.
• 13:21
  Where did that come from? Who figured out all these things?
• 13:26
  Well, they were inspired through God, through the work of the Holy Spirit.
• 13:30
  We know things about our faith that we couldn't possibly discern any other way
• 13:34
  if it wasn't through the guidance of someone with vastly more knowledge than we have.
• 13:41
  And I think it's good for our own humility that we recognize there's a lot of
• 13:46
  things we still don't know.
• 13:48
  There's a lot of things we take out of faith. We find the truth in it,
• 13:52
  but we can't say exactly why it works, but we know it works.
• 13:57
  You can look at the seasons. You can look at, I'm always fascinated by hurricanes
• 14:02
  and tidal waves and earthquakes.
• 14:05
  Everybody says, well, why does God give us earthquakes? Well,
• 14:08
  it's a brilliant design.
• 14:10
  I mean, the earth breathes. The earth is a living, moving thing.
• 14:13
  If we didn't have volcanoes and earthquakes, this planet would have exploded long ago.
• 14:19
  This is the pressure valve. The same with hurricanes. It's a pressure valve
• 14:23
  for our weather system. But we need the weather system in order for animals
• 14:26
  to live, crops to grow, for us to live.
• 14:29
  We need that change in temperatures and humidity and precipitation.
• 14:35
  And so God's created this incredible, incredible system that's so complex.
• 14:42
  It's nothing we could ever create. I laugh when people talk about these billionaires
• 14:48
  who want to build a shield for the sun to be able to control the sunlight on
• 14:52
  the earth. I mean, such arrogance, such egotism.
• 14:57
  The design that we have is perfect.
• 15:01
  And yes, some of the actions of our environment are extremely violent.
• 15:05
  But without them, the earth couldn't exist.
• 15:09
  The ice age was needed. I mean, we marvel at the mountains and the canyons and the rivers.
• 15:15
  We only have those because of the devastation of glaciers.
• 15:19
  So don't be so arrogant as to think you can we know everything we don't or that
• 15:26
  we can learn everything there is to learn we can't.
• 15:30
  But God has given us the knowledge that we need for so many things,
• 15:34
  especially for our salvation.
• 15:36
  We didn't figure this out. This isn't something that the church created or man
• 15:41
  created, this whole journey of salvation.
• 15:45
  This was all planned out thousands and thousands of years ago by an almighty God,
• 15:51
  someone with unlimited wisdom, unlimited knowledge, who was just by speaking
• 15:57
  the words able to create this incredible universe.
• 16:01
  So this is kind of a continuation of that humility that we talked about last
• 16:05
  week, that need to approach God with humility, to be able to understand that
• 16:10
  we are not the creator. We are his favorite creation, but we are not the creator.
• 16:16
  And when we try to be the creator, it's to our own doom.
• 16:20
  Our second reading is Paul to Philemon.
• 16:24
  Philemon was one of the church leaders of the Colossian church.
• 16:31
  I always say the word wrong. Colossae was what we now call, is in Turkey.
• 16:37
  It was also known as Phrygia.
• 16:39
  And it's a region in Turkey where Paul had established a church.
• 16:43
  Paul is now a prisoner in Rome.
• 16:47
  And while a prisoner, at different times, he had different scribes working with
• 16:52
  him because his eyesight was failing. He was pretty much blind.
• 16:56
  He talks about that in his writings.
• 16:59
  So he has these various scribes. Mark was with him for a while.
• 17:04
  Luke was a scribe with Paul for a while. And at this point right now,
• 17:08
  he's got a young man that was sent to him by the church leader out of the Colossians,
• 17:14
  from the Colossians, he was one of his slaves.
• 17:18
  And so he sent him to Paul to help Paul out because he knew Paul whose health was failing.
• 17:26
  Pardon me. So the young man's name is Onesimus.
• 17:31
  So Paul writes to Philemon about Onesimus because Paul knows he's about to die.
• 17:37
  He's going to release Onesimus, but rather than just set him free,
• 17:40
  he's sending him back to Philemon and begging Philemon to, rather than treat
• 17:45
  him as a slave, treat him as a freeman.
• 17:48
  So he says, I, Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus,
• 17:53
  urge you on behalf of my child, Onesimus, whose father I've become in my imprisonment.
• 17:59
  I'm sending him that is my own heart back to you.
• 18:02
  I should have liked to retain him for myself so that he might serve me on your
• 18:06
  behalf in my imprisonment for the gospel, but I do not want to do anything without
• 18:11
  your consent, so that the good you do might not be forced but voluntary.
• 18:17
  Perhaps this is why he was away from you for a while, that you might have him
• 18:20
  back forever, no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a brother,
• 18:25
  beloved especially to me, but even more so to you, a man and in the Lord,
• 18:31
  So if you regard me as a partner, welcome him as you would me. The word of the Lord.
• 18:37
  So Paul is asking Philemon for a huge change of heart to say,
• 18:42
  this slave that you have loaned to me, I could have kept, but I'm sending him
• 18:47
  back to you not to be your slave,
• 18:49
  but in hope that you'll treat him now as a brother, as a fellow Christian.
• 18:54
  Because Paul changed his attitude about this young man. And this young man has
• 18:58
  changed who he is in the eyes of Christ.
• 19:01
  And now he's asking Philemon to change his view of his slave.
• 19:06
  I'm always fascinated by people who say, well, the Bible supports slavery.
• 19:11
  No, that's not what this is saying.
• 19:13
  Well, Paul didn't free him. No, he didn't. He wasn't Paul's slave to free.
• 19:18
  Scripture doesn't support slavery. Scripture recognizes that slavery existed.
• 19:25
  But the slavery of the apostolic time is a completely different slavery than
• 19:31
  what we talk about in modern times.
• 19:33
  These weren't people who were bought at auction and mistreated.
• 19:37
  The slaves in apostolic times, most of them, they applied for the job.
• 19:43
  I mean, some of them were captives from war. Part of the standard of war was
• 19:48
  when you conquer to people, you would take their best and their brightest to
• 19:54
  serve your community, to make your community stronger.
• 19:58
  So that's what we see, which is a completely different sort of slavery.
• 20:02
  And they didn't keep them forever. They could keep them for seven years,
• 20:06
  and then they had to release them.
• 20:08
  Oftentimes, when they were released, they had nothing to be released to.
• 20:12
  They were in a foreign country. They had no job. What they knew how to do was
• 20:16
  the work they did in that household.
• 20:17
  So they often would hire the slave back into the household to continue to do his work.
• 20:25
  But it wasn't the type of slavery that we think of today.
• 20:29
  So here's a man who wasn't dragged in chains to Rome to serve with Paul. He went willingly.
• 20:36
  He was asked to go as part of his service to the family he served to go help
• 20:41
  Paul. He did that. He stayed for quite a while.
• 20:44
  And now Paul's going to die and wants this young man to be back home.
• 20:49
  He sends him back to Philemon, his master, but begs Philemon to look at him
• 20:54
  differently now, and no longer as a slave, but as a brother.
• 20:58
  And Christ asks us to do the same thing with people around us,
• 21:02
  to look for the best in them, as Paul did, to change our attitudes about them,
• 21:09
  to help them go back to a better life than they're in now.
• 21:13
  And we see that through these writings. So it's a good lesson for us.
• 21:18
  I think about my days as a scout leader.
• 21:21
  I kind of modeled it after this. The parents would send their kids to scouting
• 21:25
  to be better prepared to go back and serve the community and serve the family
• 21:31
  as better young men than they were when they began.
• 21:35
  And so in a way that's very similar to what we see Paul asking for.
• 21:41
  In our gospel, it's the gospel of Luke. This is from chapter 14.
• 21:46
  Luke writes, Great crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and addressed them.
• 21:51
  If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children,
• 21:56
  brothers and sisters, even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
• 22:01
  Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
• 22:07
  Which of you, wishing to construct a tower, does not first sit down and calculate
• 22:11
  the cost to see if there's enough for its completion?
• 22:14
  Otherwise, after laying the foundation and finding himself unable to finish
• 22:17
  the work, the onlookers should laugh at him and say, this one began to build
• 22:22
  but did not have the resources to finish.
• 22:25
  Or what kind of king, marching into battle, would not first sit down and decide
• 22:30
  whether with 10,000 troops he can successfully oppose another king?
• 22:35
  Advancing him and upon him with 20,000 troops. But what if?
• 22:40
  If not, well, he's still far away. You send a delegation to ask for peace terms.
• 22:45
  In the same way, any one of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot
• 22:50
  be my disciple. The gospel of the Lord.
• 22:53
  Again, another verse that seems to upset a lot of people. Well,
• 22:57
  God wants you to hate your parents.
• 22:59
  No, God wants you to love him them more than you love them.
• 23:04
  Not hate as in despise them or want ill on them, but what God says is,
• 23:10
  if you really want to transform yourself into the image and likeness of Christ,
• 23:17
  then your love of Christ, God, has to come before your love for anything else,
• 23:23
  even before your love for yourself.
• 23:25
  And there again, we're talking about this humility issue.
• 23:28
  If you think more of yourself than you do of God, you can't possibly transform
• 23:33
  yourself into the image and likeness of God because you're too good.
• 23:36
  You say, well, I'm not going to lower myself to that standard.
• 23:40
  No, you have to put everything else lower than God so that you can raise God
• 23:45
  to the level he deserves.
• 23:47
  So it's not hate your brothers and sisters. It's want to serve God more.
• 23:52
  And by loving God more, you'll love others better. That's something that a lot
• 23:56
  of people have trouble grasping.
• 23:57
  To me, that's the real joy of the ordained life, is that you're willing to put
• 24:06
  love of God before love of family.
• 24:09
  And that's really hard for some to do, and it doesn't mean that you don't love
• 24:13
  your family, just that you love God more.
• 24:17
  And Christ says, if you want to follow me, if you really want to transform yourself
• 24:21
  to be Christ-like, then you can't put the desire or the love of anything else first.
• 24:30
  How do you do that? I mean, how do you do that? How do you concern yourself
• 24:36
  with God more than your child?
• 24:38
  People say, well, that's barbaric. You can't do that. But it's by putting God's
• 24:42
  love first and transforming yourself to be more Christ-like that you will love
• 24:46
  your child even more because you will treat him the way Christ treats you.
• 24:53
  It's hard. Being a Christian is hard. Jesus tells us over and over again,
• 24:58
  this is the hard way in. This is the narrow gate.
• 25:02
  This is the locked door that you have to get through. It's not easy being Christian.
• 25:07
  God demands a lot of us, a lot from us.
• 25:13
  But it's the person who's willing to do that that's going to gain the most,
• 25:18
  and not necessarily in this world, but be beloved by God in the next.
• 25:24
  So, how are you going to transform yourself to this degree? It happens through prayer.
• 25:30
  God, give me the humility to follow you.
• 25:33
  God, take away my desire, my lust for other things and other people,
• 25:38
  and let me love you first.
• 25:40
  So, it all begins with prayer and with a relationship with Christ.
• 25:44
  For me, I find that at the Mass, and I think that's where you'll find it as
• 25:51
  well, is through the Eucharist.
• 25:53
  Which is what our two young men who are being canonized into sainthood did with
• 25:59
  their lives, and look at the joy that it's brought them now. Be a saint.
• 26:04
  We should all be saints in the making. It's not impossible.
• 26:08
  It just takes commitment and perseverance and the love of God.
• 26:13
  May Almighty God bless you, protect you from all evil, and bring you to everlasting life.
• 26:18
  Good night. You've been listening to Good News on Catholic Spirit Radio,
• 26:22
  A program for teens and almost teens to better understand that the gospel of
• 26:26
  Jesus Christ is relevant in your life. Submit your questions to Deacon L.
• 26:30
  At goodnews at catholicspiritradio.com. That's goodnews at catholicspiritradio.com.
• 26:36
  Deacon will answer your questions about faith and religion.
• 26:39
  Thank you for listening to Good News on Catholic Spirit Radio.