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So last November, I was able, I was invited to go out to New York City to be part of a

procession to St. Patrick's Cathedral and then to be part of a euchristic procession downtown New York City.

And when I told people about it, they were like very excited about this whole thing and just like really,

that's so cool, you're going to process with our Lord and the eucharist all through Times Square this whole thing and I remember thinking I don't want to do this like people even ask like how did you come up with this idea like it's not my idea in fact I don't like the idea of this I like the idea of having mass I don't like the idea here's why I like the idea of having mass. I don't like the idea. Here's how I saw it though.

It's like I see it as like ambushing people with Jesus. Right. So you just walk into work or you just

kind of walking down the streets of New York City and all of a sudden it's like

boof there's Jesus and you're like what do I do? Because there's of a sudden it's like, there's Jesus, and you're like, what do I do?

Because there's a piece there that's like, again,

it's a good thing, narration, our Lord,

processions, great things, but I think they,

there's a problem, because a lot of us are ignorant like we just we don't know what's going on like how many people would be here we are possessing with our Lord and here we are kind of in this trial there were 5,000 people who were part of this procession.

And so in there was singing and there was a ton of assistants, a ton of lay people, a bunch of priests, comes the bishops,

kind of this, what looked like kind of a tramp procession, and at the same time a lot of people had no idea what was going on so they responded they didn't know ignorant or

indifferent I mean even if you were Catholic you're like what do I do do I kneel here do I mean to the road do I bow do I make the sign of the like there's this ignorance

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