Well, thank you everybody for joining us. I'm Father Chris Alar, one of the Miriam priests here at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy.

And we welcome you back to our Explaining the Faith series here on every Saturday morning.

And it's an honor to have you with us as we take you back to seminary, as I have said before,

this is the best deal you're going to get.

You're going to get the same seminary education I got without having to pay any money or take any tests.

So we are grateful you are with us.

Today is an incredibly important topic.'s one that i i've always

say this but should have done a long time ago and it's our lady of akita and approved fully

approved apparition that ties with fatima and we're going to have our cell phones turn down if you don't mind mine just went

off so we invite you to stay with us because today's first Saturday following this talk

we will be doing the first Saturday devotions and there's nothing more important right now than

what our lady is telling us.

So let us begin with a prayer in the name of the Father and to the Son,

and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Heavenly Father, we ask you send the Holy Spirit down upon us

to open our minds and hearts to receive the grace you wish to bestow,

but most of all, open our ears so that we can hear the message of heaven given through our lady.

And we ask all this, through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Name of the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Well, as I said, for first Saturday, and following the talk I did last week on

Woke, we could not have a more important topic. For those of you who are waiting for the

continuation of the Woke series, I will be doing that coming up. So we don't have to worry. I'm

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