Hey, everybody, welcome you.

We're born for this podcast with Father John Ricardo, Mary Guilfoyle.

We are a couple of missionaries at Acts 29, and this is the podcast where we talk about

how acquiring a biblical worldview brings us great and unshakable hope in the God

who created and rescued this world in order that you and I can be

agents of transformation and recreation. Mary, hard to believe, but it's almost happy New Year.

Happy New Year early, Father John, a day early. And what a gift it is for us, we're heading into

the Feast of Epiphany, as we're going to talk about today, because we made a

decision to do the reading for Epiphany and not for the Feast of the Mother of God.

And we're in Cologne, Germany, where there is a spectacular shrine to the Magi, who, of course,

figures so prominently in the story of the Epiphany.

And we're here because we're really honored and humbled

to be able to take part in the Fellowship of Catholic University students, otherwise known as

Focus, their seat conference, which is going on over here in Cologne. Yeah, it's just a great joy

to be here. My husband has been here before with coworkers. I've never been to Germany. It's glorious,

and the cathedral is magnificent. And what a gift for us to be with focus. We can't say enough

about what it is that focus has done for countless young people around the world, most especially in the United States,

if there's a better apostolate in the U.S. than focus.

I'm not actually sure what it is.

Just huge shoutouts and gratitude to Curtis Martin, Edsri, and all the men and women who

serve, whether it's on college campuses, we've got lots of friends who are priests who work really intimately

hand and glove with focus. And then we've got lots of friends who are missionaries. So just really

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