When exactly was the church born? Father Hezekiah's Carnazo is next!

Hello and welcome to Focus the Catholic Cancer's podcast for living,

understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I'm Psych Hill at your host,

at least usually I'm your host, but in this episode we have a guest host, a wonderful guest host,

Michael Lofton, an apologist for the Catholic faith and associate apologist here at

Catholic Answers, and someone we really admire and were grateful that he agreed to guest host

this episode with Father Hezekiah's Carnazo, who himself is the founder of the institute for

Catholic culture. So that's two pretty high-brow people that you're going to get to hear the

conversation of, and a wonderful conversation on the birth of the church. Often, nowadays, now that

we've got social media, people will wish the church happy birthday on Pentecost Sunday.

But is that true? Is that the birthday of the church? Where and when was the church

born? Father Hezekiah says some very interesting things to say about that, and when we

grasp the point he's making about where the church originates, we know a great deal more about,

we have a pretty powerful insight into what we're doing as members of the church, as part of

this beautiful growing kingdom that is dawning. Here's what Father Hezekiah's had to say to Michael Lofton.

Father Hezekiah's Carnazo founder of the institute of Catholic culture, thank you for joining me

on Catholic Answers Focus. How are you, Father? Oh, it's a blessing to be with you, Michael. Thank

you for inviting me. Oh, absolutely. The honor is all here. Father, tell us a little bit about

yourself and also the work that you're doing with the institute of Catholic culture before we dive

into the topic of hand. Sure, I'm a Melchite Greek Catholic priest, a Byzantine priest within the

Catholic communion. I'm a pastor in Sacramento, California of a beautiful little church, St. George,

and I pastor the majority of the people in my community are from the Middle East, from the Holy

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