Welcome back to Cathy Gantz. Live, I'm Psych Hill at your host. Thanks so much for being here with us. We continue with Open Forum this hour. As Promise Carlo Rousseau are here for an hour of Open Forum. Your calls welcome there, 888-318-7884.

Triple 8-318-7884. If you have a question about the Catholic faith, we'd love to get you an answer and you certainly don't have to be Catholic to call anybody can call with any question.

If you've got some, maybe there's some Catholic doctrine that you as a Catholic can't explain. Maybe there's a Catholic doctrine that you as a non-Catholic don't understand or don't like, whichever.

Whatever it is, you're welcome to call 888-318-7884. And in addition to having Carlo here to answer your questions this hour, we're also going to do a little bit of fundraising this hour. So we'll be interspersing some requests, some calls for help during the hour with taking calls for questions for Carlo throughout the hour.

So I said I'd let you know how we did last hour when we came back and I'll be honest with you, I haven't seen this before, but a lot of folks still on the phone from the last hour. So give me a few minutes and we'll figure out where we are.

But we have, again, this will be, we're starting into the second half right now. We're this moment. We are starting into the second half of our quarterly pledge drive.

And we have another $20,000 dollar for dollar match this hour. And we have the second pledge is still available for anybody who starts a new monthly pledge. It will be matched again.

So just to give you a quick, if that means if you give $10 right now, it becomes $20. But if you give $10 a month right now, it becomes $30. And that extended out by our donors to the end of the year. We figure you're good for it.

So that means the matching money comes in right now. So pledge $10 a month. And that's going to end up being $360 by the end of the year once you've met your part of the pledge. And a lot of that comes right to us immediately from these donors who are matching your pledge.

So a lot of opportunities to give and to make your money really go to work here for this hour, $888,291,8000 lines are beginning to open up again from last hour. There are nine lines open right now.

And I'll remind you that when you call, you're talking with our colleagues, people we go to mass within the morning and the people we hang out with during the day and they will be happy to talk with you.

They'd love to hear your story or if you need to get done quickly, they'll get you done quickly. Just let them know, hey, I'm in a rush. Can we get this done quickly?

$888,291,8000 is number to call. Say hi to them, visit or get done quickly. Whichever way you'd like to do it, we've got a $20,000 dollar for dollar match to use up this hour. And we could really use your help to do it. $888,291,8000.

Carlo, I took a little bit of time to do that introduction. I apologize for keeping you waiting, but thanks so much for being here, Carlo Rousard.

Oh, that's just okay there. So it's great to be with you, my friend.

From joining us from Tulsa, Oklahoma, everything looking good there and everything I hope it's still good. Life is good in Tulsa.

Life is good, my friend, and it's only getting better.

This is one of the things that Catholic dancers has been able to do in recent years. This is a new thing with Carlo, a partnership with the diocese of Tulsa, where Carlo will be working for us.

But some of his hours will be for the diocese where you've already scheduled a bunch of stuff to do for diocesan adult education, right?

25 events booked as of today from now until April, consisting of parish missions, staff formation days, teacher orientation days, talks for RCA, youth group, men's group, young adult groups, a variety of different events that we have scheduled.

So looking forward to it. It's a lot of fun and a lot of work. The heavy, the workload is quite heavy and juggling all of the balls, but it's exciting times.

And I'm so grateful to be here with you today, Si, to talk to our listeners out there and our viewers to encourage them to give us a call to donate so that we can continue doing the great work that we do here at Catholic dancers.

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