Welcome to the Jeff Kaven show where we talk about the Bible,

discipleship and evangelization putting it all together and living as activated disciples.

This is episode 260, the activated disciple retreat, fan or follower.

And thank you for joining me on this 2022 Lenten retreat together

where we're going to dive deep into this whole issue of being an activated disciple.

Being a disciple of the Lord, I have been looking forward to this for a while now.

And when I go into Lent every year, it really is that time of year where you kind of focus on what needs to change in your life.

You know, how is God refining you, preparing you and correcting you and guiding you in your life?

And it's a 40 day adventure every single year.

You know, that number 40 in the Bible is really significant because every time we see the number 40, like Lent,

we see a trial, we see a testing, an ordeal that takes place like Jesus in the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights or Israel in the wilderness for 40 years.

Well, we've got 40 days started on Ash Wednesday, just a couple days ago and hopefully you got your ashes and you're ready to begin.

All right, so let me just kind of give you a little bit of the the game plan here as to what we're going to do in our Lenten retreat.

It's based on my book, The Activated Disciple, which is put out by Ascension Press.

I'll put the link in the show notes. You can still get that.

We're going to be going through that and I'm going to be giving you some show notes, kind of an outline every single week during this retreat.

The retreat is going to go seven or eight weeks here and I'll give you some show note outlines so that you can at least take some notes, you know, during the time that we have together every single week.

Obviously, this is not a full blown retreat in the sense of showing up at your parish for an hour every night for five nights, but we're going to cover a lot of good material here.

And the goal of this is not just more knowledge, please, we've got so much.

We have an embarrassment of riches in content in the Catholic world in the United States at least and what we're really in need of is to put it into practice and to be the church that God called us to be to be that that disciple that he is called you to be.

So I will have show notes. If you don't have the show notes, all you got to do is text my name, one word, Jeff Kavins, and you can text it to the number three, three, seven, seven, seven, and you'll get the show notes automatically.

And if you've you had them in the past, but for some reason they they fell off, just do it again and we'll get you set up once again.

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