Hi, this is Father Mike Schmidt's. I just wanted to thank you once again for listening to these podcasts. Hopefully they've been uplessing to you. Hopefully this series rivals has been uplessing to you.

Today we have the last installment of this series. Before next weekend, we kick off a new series, which I'm incredibly excited for. It's been something I've been praying about for actually for a couple of years now.

I just can't wait. I just thank you for listening to this series. Hope that you like it and hope you like the next one. Two quick updates.

One is this last weekend we had our fan into Flamer Treat about eight years so college students went away for these three days.

I was just praying for these three days. I was just praying for God to touch hearts and transform lives. It was awesome. I talked with a bunch of students after the retreat and after Mass this Sunday who just reported that, oh my gosh, just incredible gifts being poured out on them.

I mean, just like that sense of being drawn closer and closer to the Lord. So thank you for your prayers for them. I know, especially this retreat, it's so obvious to me that whatever graces are poured out, it is all because of God Himself that He just blesses and annoys those things and say, thank you so much for cooperating with God by praying for us on that retreat.

That's the first thing. The second thing is it's a quick reminder about the gift to the Max Day that's coming up this November 15th. That's only two weeks away, two and a half weeks ago, away I guess.

It's Thursday November 15th. Give to the Max Day is typically the day that we here at Bulldog Catholic, or at UMD Newman used to basically build up the ministry on campus.

And because of what people give on Give to the Max Day this November 15th, we are able to do all of the retreats we do, we're able to actually even grow the ministry in the last couple of years.

What you have done for us on Give to the Max Day has enabled us to reach more and more students that. So right now, there are more students being reached on campus than we literally ever have in my memory and in the memory of, I think, the living memory of the people in the Stysys.

I'm just so grateful for what you have done. If you have prayed about, or if you're willing to pray about supporting us financially, this November 15th, whatever you need to do, whatever you'd like to do, whatever you'd like to give, just go to givemmn.org.

So givmn.org. You can do that now. You can actually plan the gift to be given on the 15th. If you'd say, I get busy during Thursdays or I get busy, you know, in the future, I know what's going to happen to me.

You can actually plan your gift if you'd like to. Right now, you could go to givemmn.org and do that. Or you could give on the 15th. Or you could say, I can't give you anything financially, but I can pray for you. If that's the case, thank you so, so much.

We literally could not do this ministry without the support that we get from people who are listening to this podcast around the country and around the world. We literally could not do it.

So thank you so much for praying about this. I'll have another message about it next week and maybe the week after. But I just want to get this out there right now.

Sorry to take up your podcast time, but I did want to give you an update on the retreat. And I did want to ask you if you wouldn't mind,

prayerfully considering supporting this ministry, this November 15th, at givtodomaxday.givmmn.org. And without anything further, I hope that you are blessed by this last installment on Rivals.

So you know those things about yourself that you notice that you don't like, that maybe like maybe no one else notices it. You don't know.

There's the thing about you that you're like, whenever you look in the mirror or you look at your personality, whatever that thing is, you notice it. And there's that thing of like, maybe, maybe no one else notices, but it still bothers you.

Like there can be something like that. And then there's this devastating moment. It seems devastating. I think sometimes when there's that thing you have, right? And you're like, everyone's like, no, no one notices that. Are you kidding me? Why are you so obsessed about this? And then comes the moment where someone points it out.

And you're like, oh, so you did notice. So ever since I was a kid, I don't know what the deal is. I.

It's totally shallow. And I'm so sorry that I'm going to say it, but maybe you can relate. I have always.

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