Hi, my name is Father Mike Smith and I want to tell you about my latest podcast,

Launching January 1st, The Catechism in a Year.

Where we will read the entire Catechism of the Catholic Church over the course of 365 days,

that is the 2000 years of the church's beauty and truth and teachings of the church that Jesus

Christ himself founded coming to contact with us and allowing that contact to change our lives,

you know, after the Bible, the Catechism is the most important book for Catholics.

The Catechism is much, much more than a reference book. It is the distilling, the unpacking,

the summary of all that Christians have believed for hundreds and thousands of years

and how about Christians believe today. To see what we'll be reading each day,

get the reading plan at ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y.

Welcome to the Jeff Kaven Show, where we talk about the Bible, discipleship and evangelization,

putting it all together and living as activated disciples.

This is show 302 Christmas and Quiet Love.

Well, thanks for joining me. Here we are at about the end of the year and our whole team really

is taking a couple of weeks off. It works so hard throughout the year and I ask them, I said,

can I just give like just a three minute little message to my friends to let them know that

I'm praying for them and love them? They say sure. So I'm just going to share just for a few minutes

with you today, something regarding Christmas and Quiet Love. Something happened to me

just this morning that really opened my eyes, really did. I got a call from the Social Security

Administration and they called me out of nowhere and said, there's a discrepancy

between your name on your Social Security card and a form that you filled out.

Your Social Security card says, you're Jeffrey, J-E-F-F-R-E-Y and they said, the thing you sent

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