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The purpose of Lent is a time of like quickening.

It's a time of intensity.

It's a time of renewed focus.

It is a time where we don't give up our sin.

You should be giving up your sin all the time. It's a time where we renounce good things. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to every knee chow bow.

That was weird.

Your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization and discipleship.

My name is Mike Gomer Gormley, and I am joined today by Dave the rogue Van Vickle. How you doing, Dave? Good. I loved it. That was my favorite intro yet. I got so pumped up. Come on. Trapezilla? You like that. No, no, not the name. I'm saying like the way you came out. Oh, so. Okay. It was like, yeah. I had the rocky music kind of playing him at the back. Yeah. That's my, my ringtone is the rocky music because I have to get pumped up in order to answer my phone. Okay. That's beautiful. Mine is me. This is a true story. Mine is me, my ringtone is me going, the summer of scandal.

Do do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, which is all from the horrible summer of scandal with McCarrick way back of the day. I had that, we did a whole episode. We had, like, J.D. Flynn, and we were breaking down all the stuff. But I created a rake tone based on it and I just

put it on my phone and that's been it ever since. Oh my gosh. Yeah, it's weird. It's weird. I have

problems. It's fine. It's fine. I thought you were going to say it was like a remember around

the office when Andy records himself and he does the harmonies and everything. Oh, he lays it off together. I like, I like the classic Seinfeld. Believe it or not,

George isn't at home. So leave a message at the beep. Love it. But with Lent, let's let's get into

this. You know, I always like tell the joke about one year, I don't remember what was going on, but it was one of the medical tragedies that we've gone through. And I said to Amber, you know, like, I don't even think I'm going to do anything for Lent this year. I feel like we've been in Lent, like God is subjecting us to Lent. And she's like, oh, really?

And I was like, yeah.

And you know how tough Amber was.

Yeah. She's like, maybe you should talk to your eight-year-old son who decided to sleep on the floor for Lent. And I was like, okay, fine. No, you know, what a goody, goody. But, no, Lent is one of those. it's the time of year when we buckle down, right,

and we try to live

heroic virtue in a special way so that at the end we're a little bit more disciplined,

we're a little bit more free, we're a little bit more surrendered, and because of that,

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