 Hey, I'm Jordan Burke. No. I remember. No. I remember. Don't use all the guns to me, Marcus. Help. Okay. Hey, I'm Jordan Burke. And I'm Kristen Pryola. And this is Saints and Sages. Where we talk about the wisdom of the saints and how it's relevant for you. And this took like five takes, but I'm happy with it. We're finally going. I was making jokes. It wasn't helpful at all. Something really important coming up. Something really special. February 20th. Can you tell us what that is? It's going to be the best time of your life if you come. Guaranteed. Like, um, what was that old commercials for men's men's warehouse? I guarantee it. Yes. Just, just what Jordan said. Guaranteed fun. Um, and also spiritual transformation. So good, good things. Good things to look forward to you on February 20th is the silent retreat. So that's for young adults ages 18 to 35. We would love to see you there and your friends and family. Your loved ones could come to their ages 18 to 35. Can I say something really beautiful about that? Or what I think is beautiful about that. Please. So it's going to be a really profound experience. Um, they always are the silent retreats, no matter who does them, but it's something really special about the way that we do it is that we have a community for you afterwards. So if you're hearing this and you're not already a member of Firelight and you're kind of trying to consider it. Um, come, come to the silent retreat and see how you feel. And then know that you have a community to go to afterwards. If you so choose, I think that where a lot of these programs fail. Um, is that, you know, people get this like spiritual high. And then they have nowhere to go. They have nothing to sustain them. They have nothing to feed them. They have nothing, you know, what is our bonnet? Live, light and lead. Right. That's that's this is built into the process. So I really enjoy the fact that we have this. Hey, let's go get spiritually high. So to speak, you know, for lack of a better phrase. And then we have a community for you. We have a place for you afterwards where you can continue to grow. You can continue to feed that fire. So. Yeah. And the great news is that you can be anywhere and be a part of our community. And it's somewhere you can land after like he's like Jordan saying after the retreat is said and done. And you've had that experience, which you definitely will at the shrine of the most blessed sacrament in Hansville, Alabama. It's a gorgeous location. Not only that, but it's just a time to really connect with the Lord in silence, which is so unheard of, you know, outside of just adoration. I don't know about you guys, but it's just a noisy world. And so I need a lot more time for silence in my life. And you know what? Perfect opportunity. It's practically free. It is. 20 bucks. I mean, come on. We're throwing in food. We're throwing in books. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Well, handshakes and hugs. That's included in the press. And a community to follow. And a community to follow. Yeah. All you have to do is pay shipping and handling, which is yourself if you're outside of Alabama. And other than that, you're good to go. It's true. So join us. With that out of the way, let us begin to talk about St. Blaze. Yes. And funny enough, he was not set on fire. No, he wasn't. And it's not even spelled like B-L-A-Z-E. It's B-A-I-S-E. However, his heart was on fire. Set a blaze with the Holy Spirit. Ooh, that's good. We're going to call you Segway Sally. I like that. That was really good. I like that. Forever Segway Sally. So he lived in the fourth century. He's just some background here. Born into a noble family. And he and his youth, he studied philosophy and medicine. He was actually, I don't know if you, I, we were talking before the show as we always do. And I called him a philosopher. I don't know if he's technically qualified or quantified as a philosopher, but he studied philosophy. He was, however, most definitely a doctor in terms of medicine. Right. He was well educated. Yeah. A physician at that time. He knew a lot and he had the opportunity. He was, he came from a wealthy family, Armenian family. And so born into that nobility, he had the opportunity to be educated and he took it seriously. So becoming a doctor, he had the ability to know a lot about medicine and healing and that kind of thing. But later on, he was then called by God to be a priest. Yeah. Priest and then a bishop. And what's really interesting, this is where we kind of get into the meat and potatoes of the story. But he lived in a time where there was heavy religious persecution, the governor's worship pagan gods and you know, religious persecution is exactly how it sounds. And so eventually he said, okay, if I'm going to survive and continue this ministry, I need to go literally hide in a cave, out in the woods, out in a cave. And this is where this work gets interesting to me. Yes. Well, at the time he was the bishop of Subbais. Oh, yes. Thank you. Armenia, which is modern day Turkey. And he, he was really frustrated with the governor of Cappadocia for being tyrannical. I don't know if that's the right word, but he was pretty narrow minded about Christianity. And so with that, he attempted to arrest Bishop plays. And so that's when he ran. Awesome name, by the way. Bishop plays. I like that. That's really good. That's gonna be my rap name. And so Maggie's giving me looks now, throwing me off. So. So he's in the cave. And this is where it's so interesting because he's, he essentially becomes a hermit. And so the only, only life around him is wild animals. And when I say wild animals, I literally mean wolves, bears, deer, any type of forest animal then becomes his friend. So you didn't say lions, tigers and bears. No, I was tempted to. I almost thought you were. I refrained. Yeah. No, I can't be that predictable. I try not to be that predictable. But so these animals become his friends, which is fascinating. It's very St. Francis-esque in a way. One with the wildlife. And by the way, this isn't the first time we've heard about this with saints. I mean, St. Anthony, you mentioned, and I think the last show preached to the fish. Yeah. And a river. So there's, there's most definitely a theme of animal friendship with quite a few saints, which is very interesting. It's beautiful actually. Yeah. And the likeness that we have with creation. Yeah, that's a good point. And to be close to creation as being close to our creator too. That is a very good point. Yeah. He lived amongst the animals. He did. And he would bless them and they would bring him food, which is awesome. So nowadays we have Door Dash. Back then he had a bear. Just like, hey, here you go, bud. Here's the food. So they bring him food. They'd obey him. And there's one story that says that a deer was injured by a hunter. He healed the deer, miraculously healed the deer. And then eventually finally a hunter found him and was, the story goes, he was in a cave doing his thing. He was praying. Praying surrounded by animals. And again, imagine there's this guy. This was like the regular for him. Yeah. In a cave praying and surrounding him. By bears. Bears. Wolves. Wolves. Deer. Foxes. Probably some bunnies. I don't know what else is in the forest. Birds probably. I don't like the snow. Squirrels. Yeah. Squirrels. Maybe just the bears. Yeah. It's probably just the bears. I don't know. And so the hunter was terrified and goes and reports St. Blaze to the governor. At this point, soldiers come. They arrest him. And it's actually, this is a lot of this is oral tradition. I probably should have started with, but written in oral tradition, but tradition. And the soldiers were, it was said that they were actually terrified because when they arrested him, the animals followed them. So the animals followed the entire way back. Into town. Into town. And the soldiers were so terrified and Blaze said, look, they're not going to hurt you. And he turns around and tells animals, go back to the forest and they go back to the forest. Some of the story state that the animals were, were actually were, I don't know how true this is. Again, this is a tradition, but were some of them were visibly distraught that he, you know, like when you can tell when a dog is sad, you know, that sort of a thing is probably more. They were trying to protect. They were trying to protect. And the interesting part is actually on the way to the village on the way to his trial because at the time, like we said, the governor was not fond of Christians and wanted him to be put on trial for, you know, hiding out in this cave. There was actually a poor woman, a beggar on the way who had a pig and she was really distraught because a wolf had actually taken her pig. And so Bishop Blaze being the really cool dude that he was was like, that's not okay. And he told the wolf to bring the pig back. And so the wolf actually did. He seized and brought the pig back to the woman and she was absolutely beside herself. She was ecstatic, you know, and so she later on apparently gifted him with two or it might have been in that moment. It must have been in that moment on the way. Gifted him with two candles as a thank you for saving her pig, her beloved pig. I don't know what the relationship was, but needed the pig. This fourth century, fourth, fifth, you know, century, as we know with a lot of different, even in biblical times, animal, particularly animal property was very, very... Their livelihood. Yeah, it was their livelihood. Some donkeys, those sorts of things. It wasn't just something to move around. It was really their livelihood. So losing a pig could have been a tremendous, tremendous deal. So yeah, no, so she gives him the candles and for those who are familiar with St. Blaise or have ever seen the blessing of the throat at Mass with the two candles, that's where the candle comes from, the sacramental, which I'll talk about in a second. But now you must be thinking, well, what about the throat? He's a patron saying of wild animals. We get that at this point. But also diseases, especially diseases of the throat. Of the throat. Where does that come from? Yeah, what is this day that we all celebrate? It's so interesting because it seems like he saved all of it. I mean, clearly he didn't save his miracles, but a lot of the miracles that are really talked about happened on this road to his eventual spoiler, martyrdom. His deathbed. It's interesting to think that it was like one after the other because what happens next after the pig or sometime in the same, you know, they have to get him from the woods to the city. So it is really truly a long track. A track. Yeah. Along that same path, he comes across a mother who has a child who is choking. Choking on supposedly supposedly a fish bone. And so he was suffering from that choking. And then while choking, she brought him to Bishop Blaise and he blessed him and prayed over him and he was restored to health. And he was healed because in that moment he was going to die from choking on this fish bone, which I've never choked like that before. I've seen it in movies, of course, but I'm sure you guys can imagine. Fish bones are not that soft. I guarantee you that there are some people who are listening right now who've accidentally started eating a fish bone before. I'm actually, fun fact, I'm allergic to fish. I didn't know that. But when I was younger, I used to be able to eat it. It's an allergy that I developed when I was later. What do you do during Lent? Suffer. What do you eat? Like pizza every Friday? Suffer. Oh my God. That's what I do. And yeah, fish bones, if you don't get them all out of the meat, you know, it's a sketchy thing. Those can be like knives going down the throat. I guarantee you there's some people listening now who are like, ooh, yeah, no, I get it. So hence the tradition of blessing throats because this boy came and needed to be healed. And it was a miracle. He was healed in that moment by Bishop Lee's blessing. Yeah. As the story goes. So there you go. So now we're going to get into his martyrdom. But before we started that, I wanted to briefly touch on, because it is a good teaching moment, sacramentals because it was helpful for me to hear this to clarify what that actually is. So the blessing of a throat is a sacramental, which is different than a sacrament, right? Sacrament, sacramental. Sacramental is anything set apart by the church that brings about good thoughts and increases piety and devotion. So a sign of the cross, sacramental. Holy water, sacramental. Blessed salt. Sacramental. Those are all sacramentals. Sacraments, we all know what those are. You know, that's very clear. Yes, precisely. But sacramentals are not the same. They're just something else set apart by the church. That bring or increase piety and devotion. That's all I want to say on that. Really simple. Super simple. But we thought we might enjoy listening, learning about that. Fun fact. I'd never heard it. Thanks to Sincere Svideles for making it that clear of a definition. It's pretty distinct. Because I'd never heard it. Yeah, put that way before. Yep. So now, now we get into the martyrdom. He's on his way. Yeah. And he finally arrives to his jail cell in this dark and cold. Good thing he has those two candles that the woman gave him. In fact, unfortunately, the judge advised him that he could actually be saved. And it would be fine. If you just had a pinch of incense offered to the images of Caesar and the gods of Rome, it could win him his freedom. And he would be set, ready to go, will send you on your way if you just go ahead and worship this god. It's fine. You can do this. Well, Bishop Blaze, the faithful Christian that he was, courageously said, no, absolutely not. Buzz off, buddy. I only worship my God. Yep. And I will not worship this God. So he's brought before the pagan governor. And the governor basically does exactly what you said. He reiterates it and says, hey, we'll let you go. Super simple. All you got to do, you just got to worship my God. That's all, you know? You just got to do it. Just bow down. Yeah, just bow down. Well, incense. And he says, not going to happen. So they beat him. And the beating. Curly, actually. Essentially tie him to a pillar and start tearing on his flesh with meat combs. Couldn't really find out. Or wool combs. I read wool. Possibly meat. I said meat. I'm sorry. Metal combs. Metal combs that were used to. Yeah. Yeah. The wool combs. I don't know what kind of meat comb. Yeah. If you imagine, if you imagine, I've seen them before in a cooking shop. That's why my brain keeps going there. Okay. But if you imagine like Wolverine's claws. That's actually really good. I'm glad you said that. That's essentially what it looks like. Owl. Yeah. Yeah. But I think they were actually made for wool. Yeah. Wool to like get the wool out of the animal. I think. So they tear at his flesh and they ask him again. Are you going to worship these guys? He says. So he actually. With a torn flesh. Mm-hmm. So we. Oh, this is something. He was thrown into a lake, right? I didn't read about that. Okay. That was before he was torn. Oh, okay. His flesh was torn. We're going to do the torture. Minor detail. I just wanted to say that. And then he messed up. And then. But it was, but it was, it was written that he actually took the tearing of the flesh. All he did was look to heaven and only moaned and pain one time. Wow. Yeah. So the governor was actually ticked about it because he was expecting. Because he was so grace-filled. It must have been the strength of God. There's no way someone can be combed like that Wolverine combs. Combed. Wow. Yeah. So they tell him again. Hey, are you going to worship God? He says, no. He says, do you indeed fancy that by torture you can enforce to forsake my Lord and my God? You are indeed wrong. No pain shall separate me from my Jesus. Governor was enraged and says, you know what, dude? Off with his head. Forget it. Yep. And essentially tortures him a little bit more than beheads him. And that was the end of it. So Bishop Blaise died in 316, February 3rd. That's the day that we celebrate. The blessing of the throats and his feast day, St. Blaise's day. And that's honestly a really intense way to leave this earth. And the opportunity that he had there, that conviction he must have had and the faith he must have had in God in that moment. It's like everything boiled down to that moment for him, right? His whole life's journey of becoming a priest first and then a bishop and then leading other people to Jesus, running and hiding, fleeing and then praying as a hermit. His whole life was geared up for this moment of saying, yes, Lord, amongst these people who are about to torture him and then ended up torturing him for God. This is something I ran across about him later because of his martyrdom. And it's funny that I mentioned Wolverine because that wasn't actually a part of the plan. But he's part of the 14 Holy Helpers. And in my notes, I wrote the Catholic Avengers. And I was wondering what that was. It's like the Catholic Avengers. The 14 Holy Helpers are like... Is Wolverine an Avenger? I don't know. I don't understand the different... Those claws. Yeah, I have no clue. But so yeah, so what do you have? You had more information on the 14 Holy Helpers than I did. Well, they became really popular and well known in the Middle Ages because similar to St. Blaise, he... So in the Middle Ages, the plague and everything, people were terrified of having throat problems because they knew that was a sign. Like, I might have gotten the plague. And so they depicted a lot of their artwork as honoring St. Blaise because they asked for his intercession a lot to protect them. And so he is known as one of the 14 Holy Helpers along with other 13 saints who are just part of everyday life, ordinary life, well-rounded holiness. And so they have a lot of attributes. What did you say? Many of them martyrs. If not all of them, I thought all of them. Many of them. I think, I don't know that. I'm not sure. Probably still. A lot of them are martyrs. But they're known as the 14 Holy Helpers and he's one of them. Yeah. And he's often depicted in those images, by the way, I just remembered, with those same combs. The combs and the candles. That's right. That's right. And in fact, the candles that are crossed as a representation from the gift from that woman who was thinking him for saving his pig from the wolf. It's like the cross when the candles are crossed around our necks. It's representative of the cross of Christ. And then also the little red ribbon that's usually wrapped around. The two candles is representing bloodshed in martyrdom. Yeah. That's a fun thing. With the candles on the crown. A headpiece? Crown? St. Lucie? Was it St. Lucie? Anyway. Another St. episode. So here's. Yeah. So if you want to know what I'm trying to say, but I can't figure it out. If you're shouting at the radio, I apologize. Go listen to our other episodes. Essentially, we had talked about this on one of our previous episodes where the symbolism is super important and it is actually really instrumental to the faith in a lot of ways. Oh, like the white and the red. Correct. Yeah. That's what I'm getting to. So the red most often, you can always associate with martyrdom. Now, if you think about it and you go back and you look at different like paintings, church paintings in particular, that's a common theme. So that gives you kind of, it's kind of a cool party trick. Like, hey, come look at this. If you're over. If you're over in Europe. That symbolizes martyrdom. You know what that symbolizes? You know, that sort of a thing. So red ribbons, red usually is almost always symbolizes martyrdom. White almost always symbolizes some sort of purity. Perfect. Yes. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. So there's a couple other fun facts we have here. Well, just one actually really, and he's actually the patron saint of I found out. Dubrinvik Croatia. Glad you said it because there was no way I was going to pronounce it. I don't know if I even did right. But in 971, he appeared in a vision to a local. Actually, it was the pastor of the local parish warning that a Venetian force was about to invade the town. And so the townspeople responded with defensive measures. They were ready for the attack because of bishop blaze actually appeared to the pastor of that church saying like, hey, this is a warning. And it was the eve of his feast day and they were about to have their candle mass. And so he warned them and lo and behold, the Venetians did not depart and they did not attack. And so they did depart. They left the area and they did not attack is what I'm going to say. And because they lost the element of surprise. And that was through bishop blaze appearing. Yeah. So to this day, Dubrinvik Croatia has a cathedral and everything there as a remembrance of St. Blaze. And you can find that in Croatia if you're over there. And I'm really kind of sad that I didn't save my Venetian blind joke and tell just now. But why don't you go ahead and tell us? Listen, I tried it earlier and it didn't get in the laughs. So we're just going to move on. Okay. Venetian blinds. That's all you can make the connection yourself. Good one. So, okay. So you're thinking what does it have to do with me? Yeah. This is a wild story. As most St. Stories are, what the heck does it have to do with me? Kristen. That was a great story. You just told me. I really appreciate it. That was great. But I need you to tell me. That was definitely yours. I need you to tell me what does St. Blaze have to do with my life today? You know, Jordan, that's a really intense question because I don't know specifically your life. But for all our listeners out there and maybe every humble Christian could learn something possibly maybe. But I will say this. Romans 10, 9 and 10. It says this, For if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him up from sin, thou shalt be saved for with the heart we believe unto justice but with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. That's like the medieval version. Would you consider it fortitude in the confession of our faith? Did I read that directly from your notes? My topic, no. Yes, Jordan. In fact, I do. Yeah. It's so important. It is. It is really important. And we see this over and over again with a lot of these saints who become martyrs. They have courage in their convictions. They have this fortitude in the confession of their faith. I'm glad you wrote it out that way because that's exactly what it is. And I think, you know, I don't want to go all do me gloomy, but I think that we are facing some of that. I mean, we could say we have been facing it to an extent with so many people who I'm speaking to people now who still haven't been to mass in like six months, six, seven months, you know, haven't been. They've been without the sacrament sacraments. These sacraments been without without reconciliation. Yeah. Been without the Eucharist and having to remain firm in that sort of. I hesitate to say white martyrdom, but you guys, I hopefully you understand what I'm saying. I mean, that is a really hard spot to be in. It's very difficult. And so having the conviction to continue to live out your faith, even though the majority of it's been stripped from you, you're almost in a cave in some cases hiding away like like St. Blaise was. And that's just really, you know, my heart goes out to you. It's not easy. It's not easy. So then what happens now? Like what is what? How does the supply for those who maybe aren't in that case? Like you and I are blessed to have mass. I'm going to daily mass. Yeah. I've been going almost every day. But that period of time in March when we didn't have the opportunity in our diocese or in my diocese, it was heartbreaking. It was so rough. I felt completely stripped away from everything that I knew to be true and good and beautiful. I had no idea that that could happen to me. You know, it's like you don't know what you have until you've lost it type of thing. And it's true. And I know some people are still suffering in that way. I have family members and friends who cannot go to mass and still have not been able to receive our Lord. It's mind blowing. And there's no telling what's going to happen in the future. And I think that his story is just a good way to say like, hey, you have to, you have to be convicted. You know, my pastors talked about it a couple of times. Yeah. My pastors talked about it a couple of times. Are you prepared if this, if we get another wave of lockdowns? More so to the fact that, you know, and I, I, I say it all the time, work with guys on overcoming habitual sin. Are you prepared? Are you able to withstand sin? Not on your own, but you get what I'm saying without the sacraments. You know, because if you're committed, if you commit a moral sin and you can't get to confession, what are you going to do? Right? So do you have the ability to, do you have the fortitude? Do you have the conviction, you know, in faith to do these sorts of things if you cannot have these supercharged, these sacraments, these things that help you? That clearly help us. Well, it's true. And to tie it with St. Blaise, he was a physician and then a priest and then a bishop. You know, this is an incredible trajectory for his life, sharing the good news of Jesus with the people around him in his ability to love people while he was serving them right there, these other Christians and teaching the faith and evangelizing, and it was stripped away from him when this governor was saying... Persecuting. Persecuting, yeah, no more Christians. So he had to run to a cave. Yeah. His whole life changed, but he still had the conviction and even when found in the cave, what? Conviction to the point of converting animals. Well, I don't know if animals were converted, but you get what I'm saying, I mean, truly, because I'm thinking as you're saying this, he must have held mass on his own, right? And then that must mean that he probably had to create the host on his own. I have no idea. I don't know. That's definitely something to speculate. Right? I mean, we don't know how long he was in the cave for. True. Did he go without? And if he did, then that goes to our point. Did the animals go and get what he did? Back from the store, church supply, we got you. Got you, bud. Don't worry about it. I'll put it on my tab. Thanks, dear. But honestly, though, right? That that level of commitment to his faith, that conviction that he had, the fortitude that he had in confession of his faith, he was willing to die for Jesus. And it's not. It's easier to just say that it rolls right off the tongue, right? Like martyr for the faith, like I'm going to be a martyr for the faith. But what about in our pop culture today? Like pop culture is screaming at us, you know, be independent. You do you whatever feels right. It's easy. Like that's what everybody's just like kind of they think it's funny because I think a lot of the times our culture is like, I'm so independent. Like I'm going to do my way. It's I'm unique, but really it's a bunch of lemmings following the same agenda. I'm so unique that everybody's moving in the same crowd towards the same direction. Yeah. But the Lord is asking of us to be radically different, radically joyful amidst a lot of sorrow. Yeah. I mean, it can be tempting to be really sad and depressed. If you're not able to go to mass, that is so disheartening. But the Lord is calling us to something. He's calling us to be like Bishop Blaise and being so convicted that even amidst all the darkness, the darkness of his cave, he was able to withstand that persecution and still believe that his God is God. His Lord is Lord and he will not give up. And you made another really good point that I don't want to skip over that, you know, to begin with society, modern society. People say, I've heard guys like to say it. I don't know about girls. I don't really hang out with girls, but the guys, except my daughter. But the guys like to say, oh, I'm ready to be a martyr. But you brought up an interesting point. Society wants us to do these things. And my question is always, but are you willing to give up what you need to give up now to become a saint? Because you have to prepare your soul before you. I told a guy the other day, I said, you should pray. He said, I pray to be a martyr. I said, you should pray to be a monk. So when the martyr, when time for martyrdom comes, you're actually ready. And I wasn't trying to say like you're not ready, but like you understand there's a process. Your soul has to be ready. Your heart has to be ready. Your mind has to be ready before you're martyred. So I like the point that you made, which is society says do this, this and this. And I want to say be a martyr to society. Society says you need to have these things and do these things. Are you willing to give those things up? I don't know. Is this you tell me is this imagery connecting? Yeah, it really is. Actually, it's really hitting home. That's why I'm like pondering. You're like wondering if I'm still here. I am. No, I can tell you're here. I'm wondering if this is even making sense. Yeah, it definitely is. And whether that's reputation or that's that job career that you're striving for that you worked, you know, eight years for. And now they have a moral compass that is way against your Christian beliefs. And you're like, actually, can I work here? Do I need to work? Do work a menial job just to to be able to live out my Christian faith? That is tough stuff. It's not easy. Or yeah, the day to day. Yes. You knew exactly where I was going to say. Because I love bringing you back to St. Teres's little way. You know, it is the little things that add up to that big day for Bishop Blaze or St. Blaze. It's not like overnight he was like, yeah, I'm going to be martyred for the faith and when it happened he was ready to go like it wasn't an overnight thing. It was every day saying yes to the Lord. Right. When an animal, I guess, because I was going to say when someone was rude but he wasn't around people, but when an animal was straight. I don't know if this is going to work. I'm going to just pause. You know what, run with it. Run with it anyway. We got time. When an animal didn't bring him the food he needed that day. That's rude. Brought him to McDonald's. He really wanted Chipotle. I understand. McDonald's is a Nathoma. What is this episode? But seriously, it must be so hard to live in that cave. I imagine. Well, like I said, truthfully, we really don't know how long he was there. We don't know how he survived. There's a lot of details that aren't there. But again, it all circles back to this fortitude, this conviction. And if you're going to take anything away from a story, I think it's just that like you have to be you have to be convicted. And here's another good reason why we'll go back to Scripture. Matthew 1032. I don't know if you guys know that in Matthew it talks about the sparrows. I'm going to just read it actually are not two sparrows sold for a small coin yet not one of them falls to the ground without your father's knowledge. Even all the hairs of your head are counted. So do not be afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows. Everyone who acknowledges me before others, I will acknowledge before my heavenly father, but whoever denies me before others, I will deny before my heavenly father. If that doesn't convict you, I don't know what will because I would hate to be denied by God in front of Jesus and all of the other saints in heaven because he says flee from me. I didn't ever know you. You didn't serve me. You didn't love the poor. You weren't me could humble. You didn't spend time with me. I don't even know you buy. Yeah, you didn't convert animals. Yeah. So next time we'll have to talk more about actual life practicals and not just the animals, but hey, you know, I didn't proceed going into the direction with society and everything, but I think that was a really powerful point. Praise Jesus. Come Holy Spirit. Yeah. I pray that you guys have the faith to strive and abide all at once in the Sacred Heart of Jesus every single day with or without communion, with your spiritual communion and have faith to carry on. Hey, you know, listen, it's been said a lot in the past few months and looking towards the future and I mean, we never know. We never, we never know, but it's the phrase floating around and I totally believe it to be true is now is the time for saints to be made. And I, you know, now's the time for saints to be made and your story could be written right now. Hey, so-and-so didn't have, so-and-so suffered through this period of time where they didn't have mass. They were not able to go to mass for nine months, 10 months, 11 months, 12 months, two years, but they were convicted. And your yes to God matters today. And they-today. They stayed strong no matter what. And you want to talk about a powerful story for future generations. Your story is being written right now. So. Want to pray the prayer that they pray? Over your throats? You can. Okay. Right. And they have a father saw in the Holy Spirit, Oh God, deliver us through the intercession of thy holy bishop and martyr blaze from all evil of soul and body, especially from all ills of the throat. And grant us the grace to make a good confession in the confident hope of obtaining by pardon and ever to praise with worthy lips thy most holy name through Christ our Lord. Amen. Amen. I feel my voice drop drop an octave. So this is that already worked. What? I don't know. Okay. Oh, it gives a good throat feeling better. Thank you guys for listening. We've really just so loved having this show. 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