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This is Father Joseph Anthony Cress.

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All right, Father Joseph Anthony, how are things? to your podcasts, podcast, Boon.

All right, Father Joseph Anthony, how are things in the great state of Virginia?

Actually, word is that you'll be leaving the great state of Virginia temporarily for a little

mission trip.

That is exciting. Your thoughts? My thoughts, thank you so much. The weather looks good. It's starting to turn into beautiful spring weather in the mountains. But I'm going to different mountains. I'm leaving the Blue Ridge and going to the Andes. I think

it's the Andes. I don't know. We're going down to Lima, Peru on a spring break mission trip. I've never been to South America. I haven't been to Peru, but I'm excited because we're going down to help serve the poor of Lima from our Dominican life. And so I'm taking students from UVA and our focused missionaries here and the

reason why I think that's so important is of the great Dominican Saints in the city

of Lima.

You have Rosa Lima, Martin de Porez, Wamaseas.

And these are all Saints who gained their crown of sanctification,

their holiness through serving poor from the Dominican life.

And I think that's something that's not typically connected, right?

Serving the poor is a very Franciscan thing, right?

Dominicans, we just hit the books and things like that,

but like there's true sanctification

from this Dominican life, this life of preaching,

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