Hello, and welcome to Capagance's live. I'm Sy Kelly, your host, so happy to be with you here on this Friday afternoon. Perhaps a Friday evening where you are, or even a Saturday morning, wherever you are, as I always like to say.

We're just glad you're here with us, and we're going to, we got a great show for you. Second hour will be Tim Staples. Is it open for him with Tim Staples? Open for him with Tim Staples. Second hour.

First hour, tradition. I would like to sing the song, but I'm still recovering from a cold, so I can't sing the song, but it has become a Catholic answers tradition at this time of the year, every year, to have our very good friend Gary Zamac on, who has written all kinds of wonderful books.

But is most famous for the book, give up, worry for lent, 40 days to finding peace in Christ, and the tradition continues. Gary Zamac, thanks for being with us.

Hey, Sy, it's a pleasure to be back on with you. We're doing it once again.

We are, yeah, and I love this tradition, mostly because I like to see you, Gary, but also, because I strongly believe, and I think I say this to you every year, I think a lack of peace, a sense of worry, is the primary obstacle in the spirit.

A obstacle in the spiritual life to most people in the modern world.

Exactly, and here we are in lent, trying to get closer to God, and worry is something that keeps us away from him, right? And Jesus said, don't worry.

So obviously, there's something to that we should be working on that. And you know, Sy, people have kidded with me, and they said, well, your book didn't work because I do it every year.

But every year, we have different problems, new challenges, the world's a different place. So this is an ongoing process.

Well, I mean, especially if you're a worrier, which almost everybody is now. I mean, it's just, it's hard to keep track of all the things we're supposed to keep track of, and money's a problem, or marriage, or kids are a problem.

And so I always something to worry about. It's not that worry is not something that just gets cured.

It's something that you have to live with and manage, and sometimes you need to start back at square one because you're obsessing again.

Yeah, really. Every year, it's funny. I wrote the book, but I benefit from it because when I go out and lead these parish missions,

and I do my daily reflections based on the book, and I do shows like this, I read some of the Bible verses and the reflections that I say, wow, yeah, I need to work on that because, you know, I have that tendency to be anxious.

But Sy, that tendency is what keeps me humble and keeps me remembering how much I need the Lord in my life.

Yeah, by the way, the number is, I'm going to talk to Gary and not give out the number because I love talking to Gary about 888-318-788-4.

Triple 8-318-788-4, maybe you are a worrier, maybe you have that anxiety, and you want to know what does the Lord have to offer?

What does the Lord call you to do in dealing with that? Gary's very good at helping you with that. If you'd like some help, 888-318-788-4.

Now, Gary, this morning, I was like, oh, I got to bring Gary's book in so I can hold it up like this, and I didn't have to look for it because I think I tell you this every year, but my wife's doing it again for Lent.

She loves this book, and whatever else she does for Lent, this is always part of her Lent journey, going day by day through, give up, worry for Lent.

I'm so honored to hear that, but I get stories like that. I have people sharing the book on Facebook, and I'm not even involved in the conversation.

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