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

Hi and welcome to the special edition of all things Catholic today we are featuring a talk I gave on my latest book into his likeness

Be transformed as a disciple of Christ. It was recorded in Fargo, North Dakota in April 2018. Here's part one next week. We'll

feature part two. Good morning. It is such a delight to be here with all of you this morning at this called by name conference.

So exciting, seeing so many people coming out, dedicating their lives to want to walk more closely

with our Lord Jesus.

So thank you for being here. It was mentioned in the

introduction that I do pilgrimages and I want to share with you a fun story. I'm getting ready

actually to go on a pilgrimage to Rome, leading a group of people at the end of May and one of the big

adventures about the Rome pilgrimage is the chance to see the Holy Father. The Holy Father

does an audience, a Wednesday audience, but you're with tens of thousands of other people.

And there's always a big adventure of trying to get to the front row.

So you can get really close to the Pope and you might get a specific blessing from him and

I've been doing this for over a dozen years taking dozens and dozens of groups and we have

a hundred percent track record for getting to the front row.

But I have a competitive side of me, and I draw out like, almost like football plays.

People said, he's like John, he's like John Madden there.

He's drawing the plays

I have different people that run different routes and different roles and we always get to the

front row and every couple of years I'll take one of my kids with me on the Rome

pilgrimage and when they turn about nine years old and a couple

years ago I took my son Carl it was his turn to come and he had heard from his

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