Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life.

Hello friends and welcome back to the show. is almost the month of December and I just

wrote an article that was recently published about it's called Advent with Mary and

I want to share with you just the opening lines to get us ready for this great season we're about to approach. The

article begins like this. Two words about Mary from the Bible describe most of

our lives in December.

In haste, the two words in haste describing Mary going in haste to see Elizabeth.

We run in haste to the mall, to the post office, to the grocery store. In haste, we rushed to the office

parties and pageants. We packed the bags, packed the car, raced to get the house clean and ready.

There are only 24 days left to fit everything in so all must be done with haste.

While the month of December has its moments of joy, for many of us words like stressed and overwhelmed of that with you is we're getting ready to enter into the month of December and

approach the the great season of Christmas and advent leading up to Christmas and

with us today we have a very special guest I'm excited to have my dear wife

Beth with us.

Beth welcome back to the show. Hello friends, great to be with you. So when you hear

about this idea of December, what do you think, honey? My heart starts racing.

I start to hyperventilate.

My mind starts going crazy, thinking of the boxes

that need to be checked and all the gifts that need to happen and the Christmas mailing

and extra stuff at school and yeah that's only part of it you should see my planner guys it's like crazy marked up this

isn't even it right here you're looking at it's whoo it's crazy the full-blown planner that'm not able to see right now the master list.

I can't show it to you there's stuff on there you can't see.

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