Hey, I'm Father Mark Mary with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, and this is the Rosary in the Year podcast.

Today we are beginning phase two of the Rosary of the Year podcast.

Congratulations, everyone who made it through phase one.

Today we begin phase two, which is called the biblical roots of the rosary.

And I am joined by Mr.

Jeff Kavans. Jeff, thanks for joining me. It's a pleasure to be with you. It's going to be a

wonderful, wonderful trip throughout the entire year. Yeah, yeah, I'm looking forward to it.

I'm looking forward to journeying with all the folks who are going to be praying with us.

Now, Jeff, for those who aren't

familiar with you, would you mind just giving a brief introduction and a little bit again of your

history with scripture and study and writing on scripture? Sure. Well, I was raised Catholic

and grew up kind of an average Catholic guy, I guess, in Minnesota.

And when I was about 17 years old, I started to really search for God.

And in my freshman year of college, my now wife led me into a deeper relationship with Jesus,

which at that point I fell in love with Scripture.

And I ended up going to Bible College in Dallas, Texas.

And then after that, I was in radio and television.

And I left the Catholic Church.

I left the Catholic Church and started working in Protestant and non-denominational churches.

And then went back to school.

And I was ordained a Protestant pastor of a non-denominational organization and that's funny to say that in non-denominational organization but I was

ordained as a pastor and it was when I was about 25 years old that I had such a hunger for scripture and I knew

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