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It's open for him again today. We've got two great hours of open for him second hour. Carlo Bussard will be here with us this hour. Tim staples here with us and I noticed just before we went on the air already calls coming in so dial if you if you've got questions about the Catholic faith whether you're Catholic or not whether you're Christian or not whatever you are you're welcome here 8883187884 you got a question about God about morals about Jesus about the Bible about the sacraments anything 8888

3187884 and we're going to kind of do a splitting our time a little bit today. The other thing we're going to do today is this is our second day of our three days to come to you and ask you to help us be fully funded for the next year to be fully funded for three months.

Excuse me not for the next year for the next three months because we will have to come back to you again in November but to be fully funded for the next three months the number to call to help us there 8882 918000 it costs 220000 dollars to run everything that we run here out of this department for the next three months the podcasts the social media stuff and this radio program and it's a lot of stuff we do for that amount of money but we need help to do it.

And this is your opportunity to get on the team if you'd like we really would appreciate it if you would join the team 8882 918000 is the number to call 10 of our colleagues on the line right now or you can go safe and secure online to catholicanswersradio.com and we got a couple matches Tim Staples and we are excited my friend I can I say thank you to everyone who called yesterday because man you guys came through.

When it looked like things were grim oh that's right I forgot to say we met our match the second hour yesterday. Yeah we met our our match in both hours. Thank you so much for calling in folks but you know what we're just getting started I'm excited because I you know we said this yesterday.

I tell it but I just feel it in the air I'm so excited about you know size since having my stroke I'm so excited now I'm out and traveling I just gave the green light for three more conferences to to gin like I guess yesterday I I just absolutely love it I'm getting out and seeing folks I'm going to tell you like we said yesterday things are absolutely insane in our culture and in some ways in the church and a lot of ways out of the church.

Jesus Christ is alive and well and the church is alive and well and folks I'm telling you we meet all around this country and around the world we have Catholics who are on fire for the faith and the future looks awful good so though it looks dark my friends in our culture and even in Catholic culture right now there's there's so much that's going on that that's not good you know welcome to the church.

There's nothing new read first Corinthians see how things were in the Corinthian church in the first century. Oh you just had you know guys sleeping with his stepmother you had temple prostitution going on and not these weren't folks outside doing this stuff it was stuff being done in the church and Saint Paul deals with it all and you know what the good news is this Jesus loves us.

He established the church he gave us the sacraments to transform us so that we can go out into the middle of the world and transform it from the inside out that's what we're called to do but folks we need your help right now in order to do it here at Catholic answers because we only do this as Si has said and we've said over and over.

We only do this four times a year so I call it I'm excited about this four times a year because times a year because I believe in what we're doing here in bringing the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world and seeing thousands tens of thousands of lives changed testimony after testimony every day in this office we hear it so you better believe I believe in this we believe in this but folks four times a year we ask you to help us.

So please go to the phones right now let's get it started right now we need callers on the line at triple eight two nine one eight thousand we need you to give and this is exciting because we've got a twenty thousand dollar match once a year I can remember not long ago so I call it when we didn't have any matches right I didn't even know what a match was except a light of candle for my kids birthday parties but a twenty thousand dollar match right now folks so every dollar that you call in right now to keep Catholic answers

on the air and to keep the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we alone possess as Catholics going out over the airwaves we need your help triple eight two nine one eight thousand call now we've got eight open lines that should not be triple eight two nine one eight thousand or remember

if you go to Catholic answers radio dot com or if you text Catholic to twenty four three six five in this time of darkness in our culture there has never been a more important time for the fullness of the gospel as I said that we alone possesses Catholics to penetrate the dark darkness all of the lies that are just being spewn forth in our culture day in day out let the Lord

and why do the gospel of Jesus Christ penetrate we need your help triple eight two nine one eight thousand eight eight two nine one eight thousand just want to let you know that I look up in the first pledge of support I see came from Scotland from Bells Hill in North Lancashire which I believe is in Scotland so thanks for starting us off on an international note

but that twenty thousand dollar matches for any pledge you pledge ten dollars right now it's going to get doubled you pledge ten thousand it's going to get doubled but there's another pledge I'll tell you about real quick and then I will go straight to the phones because I don't want to keep Tim from doing his regular job anybody who starts a new monthly pledge it'll be matched again so say that's a ten dollar monthly pledge it gets matched one time for a hundred and twenty dollars because that's what a monthly pledge amounts to over the year and then again for another hundred and twenty dollars

because we have that special match for new monthly pledges eight eight eight that's awesome two nine one eight thousand now I want to mention side because yesterday we made this clear but this is exciting to me if you're already a monthly pleasure and you recognize hey we've got problems I don't know if you guys have heard lately but our economy is doing lousy in fact the inflation has just destroyed I know my wife and I were on the computer this morning looking at our

food bills oh my gosh we're paying two thousand twenty five hundred dollars a month in food bills it's killing us but fifteen hundred of that is a teenage boy that's all that's right I got seven four girls and three boys but the point is there's a lot of folks out there please remember this there's a lot of folks who would love to give we even hear from them say Tim I would love side would love to be able to give we just can't if we want to feed our kids and we understand that do not give if you are you know struggling to put food for the kids

food on the table but I am asking and we're asking those who can step up the plate to the plate let's say you've already given twenty five dollars a month you've got an ongoing pledge I'm telling you double that and that amount will be double

triple yeah be tripled it'll be that which means double match so that extra twenty five becomes nine hundred dollars instantaneously and that hundred dollars a month becomes three thousand six hundred dollars

folks so again give us a call triple eight two nine one eight thousand let's go to Betsy and Ann Arbor Michigan Betsy thank you for

waiting go ahead with your question for Tim hi my dad is 92 and currently in the

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