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This is Monica Perez.

And I'm Brad Binkley.

Today is good Friday.

Good Friday. My husband said why do they call it Good one is the worst day in human history?

I didn't even know it was Friday.

Oh right, yes and I mean Lent has been virtually cancelled, but this is the day, this commemorates the

day that Christ was crucified and anticipates his resurrection on Easter. So this is the most solemn day of the year. You don't actually have mass, although Bishop Gomez in California televised the kind of reading of the liturgy and made it a plenary indulgence which means

it's like a get out of purgatory free card it's I've never heard of anything so that's great

to be yeah it was pretty awesome so I watched it and I really

felt guilty because you had plus part of it was they had to be truly

repentant for your sins so you kind of have to like get down on yourself. And it felt terrible that I fell for all this like, Lent is on hold thing.

I really did.

I completely gave myself over to the secular authorities cooperating with the church to stop mass.

But there were a few things that I thought about and I think it's,

I actually probably should have taken today off,

but I mean I don't, I'm really,

see this thing, I'm not like really religious, like really into ritual and stuff, but for some reason I have this like faith and I love the sacraments and stuff.

So, not a tremendous amount of faith, but I do like whatever. I I like to live it I think it's a good way to live like my mom

So there are a few things that I think are pertinent

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