Hi everyone. Welcome to this bonus episode of Daily Gospel Exegesis. In this episode, I just want to go

through some of the feedback that has come in. Recently, there's been a heap of new feedback from you guys

as listeners expressing your appreciation for this ministry. And for me, as the podcast creator, it's really quite

overwhelming. I set out to do this because I saw that there was kind of a gap in the Catholic

media space where no one was really doing an exegesis of the literal sense of scripture,

and it's something that I was interested in. And it turns out that many of you are interested

in the same thing. And often that's how it works. So I guess firstly, my encouragement to all of your

listeners would be, if you feel like God is encouraging you to do something in the Catholic world

and you really feel that you're being drawn to do something, it may be because no one else is doing

it and God wants you to step into

that space, but many, many other people are going to benefit from it. And that's certainly been

the case with this ministry. Thank you to all those who support this ministry in various ways,

through prayer, through donations. It really does make a difference. As I said, this episode is just

going to be going through some of the positive

comments that have come in. So you can see that even a small grassroots ministry can actually

have a big impact for the kingdom of God and can really help people grow deeper in their faith.

Recently, in one of the episodes on the podcast, I encouraged US listeners to reach out

and tell me a bit about themselves because most of the listeners of this podcast are from the US,

and as a result, many, many people have written in. We can't possibly go through all of the

comments this time, but we'll include a whole lot of them in this episode and we'll do some more in

the future so firstly I just wanted to start with some reviews from Apple Podcasts

so this person has called this a reinchairment with scripture they said I

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