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scripture from the heart of the church. Hi I'm Scott Hahn I want to welcome you to the Road to a Mayus a podcast from the

St Paul Center. Today we are blessed to have Father Timothy Vavarick, but also to be filming live here at Ogle Bay Resort where we have

over 230 priests for our

annual conference, Father Timothy, it's great to have you here

and what I'm hoping we can do is

talk about the brand new book that you have

as I have loved you are salvation in Christ and before we get into the book

tell us a little background about your own upbringing and where you are in the

Austin Diocese. Austin diocese my my family home is in San Marcus which is between Austin and San Antonio and as my parents still are and a number of my siblings live in the area.

That's where I graduated high school.

It's a college town, took my degree in of all things physics and then wound up instead of going to

graduate school in physics wound up going to the seminary. I did a year up at the

University of Dallas doing some leveling work in philosophy.

And I've pretty much figured to stay there and do the whole program there, but then the Bishop sent me off to Rome.

I was in Rome for four years with education by the Jesuits at the Gregorian and then in 85 came back and entered

the previously ministry for the Diocese of Austin which I've been largely in the

Waco area for most of that, probably 30 of the 32 years of the 37

I'll be a priest this year.

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