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Our guest this week.

Oh man, this guy has a really unique talent

for opening up Bible stories and pulling out treasures that on first

reading you didn't see were there, but then once you see them you can't miss them.

Father Sebastian Walsh wrote this book. Secrets from Heaven, Hidden Treasures of Faith

in the Parables and Conversations of Jesus. It's a pretty new book from Catholic

Ganser's Press and it's one of my favorites actually just for that

reason because Father Walsh has an unbelievable ability to take a

parable to take a story take even a little saying of Jesus and relate it to Hebrew scriptures, related to the traditions of the church,

and really open up what the full meaning, or at least begin to open up the full meaning,

because we never exhaust the full meaning of scripture.

So not in this book, Secrets From Heaven, is a story that we thought it would be really nice to ask

this especially talented priests to answer for us.

What is the story about where Jesus is asleep in the boat?

It appears in all of the synoptic Gospels, Mark, Matthew, and Luke.

And there is Jesus sleeping in the back of the boat,

and there are the Apostles having a crisis of faith,

and then Jesus calms the storm.

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