Hello and welcome to Cavigancer's live. I'm Cikella your host. Thanks so much for being here with us. It means everything because we love spending this time with you Tim Staples here with us both hours today for two hours of open form. If you got a question. You are welcome here.

888-318-7884. Triple 8-318-7884. We're going to do two things. Today we're going to take a whole bunch of calls and let Tim answer a whole bunch of questions about the Catholic faith, about morals, about the person of Jesus, about the Bible, the sacraments, whatever you got. It's welcome. 888-318-7884. And the other thing we're going to do is raise some money because this is the last day. These are the last two hours of our winter pledge drive for 2023.

We just come to you four times a year. Each quarter we come to you one time. And for six hours while we're doing the show, we interrupt from time to time during the show, give you a phone number, ask you to call and make your pledge. That number is 888-291-8000. That's a different line than the line to call here to the studio. 888-291-8000.

Before you can go safe and secure online to CatholicAnswersRadio.com and this hour, first of all, hello Tim Staples.

Sci-kelet, it is wonderful to be with you again. Tell me about the matches this hour.

Yeah, man, so we have a $20,000 match for the first hour. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but the last two days we had $15,000 matches, didn't we?

We started with a $15,000 match. Yeah, yeah, so folks, we're up in the ante thanks to the generosity of some wonderful folks. We've got a $20,000 match right now this first hour, and we're going to have another $20,000 match in the next hour, but folks, can I start? I got to say this, folks.

I want to thank everybody who has called these last four hours. You all are absolutely awesome. We made our matches each of the four hours.

We're still behind the gun, because as we talked about yesterday, we had two very low drives the last couple of times, and so we got to make up. See, we can't go into debt here at CatholicAnswers, because we don't have a big old bank account.

Nope, you know, so we need your help, folks, but again, thank you so much all the of you that have called you are awesome. We love you so much, folks, pray for us everybody for these next two hours, because we've got a long way to go to meet our ultimate goal. We got to get $120,000 in this, these two hours, folks, and so we need you right now. Let's not be shy, folks. Don't wait until the end, because you're causing me heart trouble.

When you do that, all right, please, folks, right from the start here, we've got 12 open open lines right now. Can you jump on the phone, folks? We've got so many opportunities for giving, and we've still at Sykele told me we've still got some matching money, not only to double every gift you, you send right now, but those of you who give the monthly gifts, and that is our bread and butter, folks. That is how we pay the bills.

The $10 a month, $25 a month, $50 a month, $100 a month, that's what does it. Well, your gift is effectively tripled, folks. You give $100. This is amazing. $100 a month, that becomes not just $1200, but $36. That's $3,600, folks. We need you to call right now.

$28,2918,000. If you want to give a one-time gift for $10, call $28,2918,000. We need you. That $1.50 gift, that $100 gift, becomes what? Doubled. So that $100 becomes $200. That $50 becomes $100.

$28,2918,000, or remember, you can go to CatholicCancersRadio.com, you don't have to wait if the lines are full, and believe me, they're not full right now.

Hey, which has got folks calling in, God bless you. We've got 10 open lines, folks. At $28,2918,000, or you can go to CatholicCancersRadio.com, or remember, you can text Catholic to $24,365.

$888,2918,000, but the other lines are open. We're ready to take your calls. $888,318,788,4. If you have a question for Tim, we do want to take your calls and your questions. $888,318,788,4, and I think people were so, and I'm grateful for this, so willing to pick up the phone and call and make a pledge that thus far no one has called to ask a question.

Sorry, we're waiting for our first question. You could be the first question. $888,318,788,4, and that's $3831 truth, isn't it?

Yeah, $3831 truth.

That's easy to remember. $3831 truth for your questions, and $291,834 your donations. I got to tell you, man, I've been texting and talking with friends the last couple of days, and it's just wonderful to hear from them.

Some folks that are listening around the country and they're praying for us, man. They're saying, man, we need you guys on the air. I had a good friend. Tell me he's going to call in and give us a gift here, and you better do it. You know who I'm talking to now.

But it's really cool. We've got so many friends all around the country and around the world, but folks, you know what?

There's never been a more important time than right now to proclaim the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we alone possess as Catholics.

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