Well, welcome back to Catholic Dance was live. I am Cikella Joe host. Thank you so much for sticking with us for another hour

and I know why you did it because I said Steve Ray is going to be here and as promised Steve Ray is here and for those of you I don't know I need the singular for the one of you who doesn't know who Steve Ray is he's he was raised the devout Baptist learned his Bible came to Jesus as a Baptist but after an in-depth study of the church fathers he and his wife Janet both converted to the Catholic church in 1997 and he's been on fire his whole life and it produces wonderful fruits like

his award-winning film series the footprints of God and his lots of writing and tour guiding and all of that Steve Ray thanks for being here with us thank you very much so I'm here I'm kind of a new man here I've got new titanium knees so I'm kind of like the bionic man today

titanium knees so you you're are you a superhero now or are you just just I'm trying to remain a hero I am to my parents Steve that sounds like a bit much you had both knees replaced oh yeah most of the time doctors won't do it but they said I was skinny enough young enough healthy enough and and devoted enough determined enough he said I'll go ahead and do it but I'll tell you the first two weeks I had no idea

would hit me that was you know just imagine they cut it open a pull your knees apart they cut them put titanium pieces in they move all this blood vessels tendons and muscles and they slam it all back together and

so you up and you wake up two hours later and what in the world did I do to myself but now it's six weeks in I'm over the worst of it I want to

pilgrimages and go out and give conferences for the next 30 years so you know I had to do it it was getting worse yeah right but what the way that you live you need

those knees because you you do not sit still I don't I have for the last six weeks

now that's probably the worst part of it for you sit still it's been horrible yeah well we're going to talk about Mary

today and she doesn't still either no she did not as matter even when even when she's pregnant she's up

and moving in one of the my favorite things I don't know why I honestly can't tell you why see where

but in the rosary the the decade on the visitation I love it and I I couldn't even tell you why but we're

celebrating the visitation that's coming up the feast of the visitation so you're here you're going to

tell us a bit about Mary and who this who Mary is and oh let me tell people look if you don't if

you're not Catholic and you want to know about Mary you can call if you're Catholic and you want to

know about Mary you can call 888-318-7884 so Steve Ray give us the lowdown who's Mary well my goodness she

was let's go right to the visitation because there's a lot to say about her earlier but the angel

appears to her and makes an announcement and where he met where he met her in the cave in Nazareth we

take our groups there that's where the words of the rosary begin hail Mary full of grace those are

the words that are spoken at that place and by the way she's about 15 years old most everybody

will agree on that and on the altar there were the angel met her in the cave where she lived

on the altar it says the word became flesh here that's where the incarnation began it didn't begin in

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