So I'm very excited to be here with you all this afternoon.

Earlier this week we have a totus to us.

I guess I've totused to us in the various areas of your lives.

Yeah, so three of you.

So what that is is there are teams of like usually four, two guys, two girls,

and they go, they do vacation Bible school all over the diocese.

So I met with our team, we got trained all last week, and they asked me this question.

It's a very important question.

Father Mike, what is your opinion on practical jokes?

It's a very important question.

Because we need to establish right up front that I hate practical jokes

with the fire of a thousand sons.

Like just, there's never a good end to practical jokes.

Here's the thing.

Because all they do, all practical jokes ever do is they make you late.

They make a mess, and they make you have something to do.

And you typically, because of the same thing, right, practical jokes will make a mess there for you to have a chore and now you're late.

And that's the thing.

The other thing practical jokes do is they escalate.

And I've lived that. I've lived that life.

I've lived the prank life, and the prank life is not for me.

When I was in college, the guys in my dorm, or our apartment,

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