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This is Father Joseph Anthony Kress.

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All right, Father Joseph Anthony.

Oh, let's go.

I'm strangely pumped for this episode.

Me too, actually.

And this pleases me?

Yeah.

Okay, so we're gearing up for Valentine's Day, which as everyone knows it's a huge celebration in religious life.

Yeah, it's like the best holiday for celibate men that live in a singular location.

Exactly, yeah, so we marked the day by precisely nothing.

Uh-huh. But it was a day that was significant in our discernment because there was a it's often that we have

vocation retreats throughout the course of the year at the Dominican House of Studies.

So there's typically two in the fall, two in the spring, if you're interested in making such a retreat, you just let the vocation director know.

But we were scheduled for the same one.

Yeah, which was our senior year in college.

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