So I've noticed something, I noticed something about us as Catholics and one of the things

I've noticed is that generally speaking we have a tendency to really complicate things.

Like just in the sense of like we have a tendency to make the idea that like Christianity is

really complicated or that Catholicism really complicated when it's absolutely not.

It's the simplest thing in the world.

In fact, if you really want to talk about it, it all comes down to one question and one

answer.

Everything that we do here, everything that is in like under the umbrella of Catholic or

of Christian, it actually, it's so simple, it comes down to one question, that's it's

and one answer.

And we'll get to that later on.

So first, I want to wish everyone a happy 4th of July.

In fact, actually, happy 7th of July.

In my head it was funnier.

But no, I've been actually reflecting on the 7th of July thing.

It's actually been really, so before I go any further, I understand that independence

was declared on July 2nd, 1776.

Congress approved of that on July 4th, 1776.

And the Declaration of Independence wasn't actually signed until August 2nd of 1776.

I just want to say that.

So no one yells at me after Mass like, oh really, did you know that, you know, exactly

not July 4th?

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