Hey everybody, welcome to the You Were Born for this podcast with Father John McCurto.

That's me and Father John.

I am the executive director at Acts 29, where we talk about anything and everything having to do with transformation in the church.

I am here with my California missionary.

Mary Gilfoyle, how are you, Mary?

Father John, I'm great and I'm getting a tan.

I'm going to go home to Michigan with the tan. It's been 70 here. It's been glorious.

No greater love has a group of missionaries, you, me, Albert, than to abandon the beauty of March

in Michigan than to come to California to do a mission. And we have a very special

guest with us today, don't we? Yes, we do. So we have Father Brandon McAdeg, who is a priest for the

diocese of Oakland, and he's the rector of the cathedral of Christ's delight here in Oakland, California.

And brother, we've had just a blast being with you these last few days and your parish team

and your parish community celebrating Mass with you this morning at the cathedral.

And then being with, what, about 150 or so, folks.

That was about 153.

About 153. Exactly about 153 exactly 153 yeah every soul matter so we're we'll break that open a little bit just see what you're doing but um mary i don't know what you

what you think the the topic is today here's what i think the topic is the topic is hope is here

that's an expression that i just am so taken by.

We'll break that open a little bit. But why don't we just pray? And then we'll entrust all that we're

going to do to the Lord. And we'll dive into here what God's doing here at the Cathedral of Christ's

Light in Oakland, California. In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

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