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The family, marriage, has been part of God's plan from the beginning, and it's how he wants to bless the world.

And make it fruitful and make it super abundant, make it joyful.

You know, that's the preferred path.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to every knee shall bow, your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization and discipleship.

My name is Mike Gomer Gormley, and I am not joined by Dave Van Vickle today.

Dave, poor Dave, his kiddo, literally 30 minutes ago, he said that he had to take him to the urgent care.

It's probably strep throat.

It's nothing super serious, but, you know, Dave, Dave has the urgent care. It's probably strep throat. It's nothing super serious, but,

you know, Dave, uh, Dave has the most interesting life. He's the busiest man ever. But today,

we are beginning our series on missionary groups. And so throughout this series, we're going to

interview people from like focus and Net and Family Missions

Company and all these different things, all these organizations that are built around

principally lay people, but not just lay people, who are doing mission work, who are being

evangelists out in the field where people are on the margins of the church or have left the church

or never been to church. And so we want to look at it from all these different angles because I think too many of us have a very narrow view of what missionary activity is. And the cool thing is, so I brought this up one day saying, oh, I'm going off to do this retreat for missionaries to the family. And Dave was like, well, what's missionaries to the family? I was like, well, this thing that we do in Paradisus Day, which is the same group that gives you that man is you and she shall be called woman. And I was like, so we train these couples up to go out and be missionaries to other couples to help marriage and all this stuff. And Dave's like, that sounds incredible.

And then Dave kept bringing it up.

So I was like, well, we'll just get Mike on the phone.

We'll just bring them on and we'll just talk about it.

And because the retreat that I went to was awesome.

So Mike DeCasola, how are you doing today?

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