How do you do this? You know, how do you handle this meeting your parish where they on evangelization and discipleship and whatever else Gomer and I decide to talk about.

You guys put up with a lot from us.

I know that.

I am Dave Van Vickle.

I'm not joined by Gomer this week, so I apologize for that.

I hope that we'll be back together soon.

Gomer is taking care of his

beautiful wife. And I know many of you are praying for them and have been praying for my

family as well. And I just can't tell you how much I appreciate the messages that we've gotten

and even just some of the mask cards and things like that that we've received from listeners.

So I just, I really, really appreciate it. And it's felt. It really is felt. Right now in my life,

you know, things are starting to ramp up. We're starting to book talks again. And I just began kind of a new

position with a parish for the first time.

And it's been, I haven't been with a parish in two years, which it's, I mean, it kind of

seems like yesterday, but it's, you know, it wasn't.

So it's been two years.

And so that's all new.

On Saturday night, we started a speaker series here in Pittsburgh that I'm pretty excited

about it's called the profundum spirit series and it's basically there to serve Catholics who

want to go deeper into the intellectual tradition of our faith through a fluke I kind of

ended up being the first speaker which I'm not I'm I'm not like a, you know, I don't

purport myself to be an intellectual at all, but, uh, it went well. You know, we had a nice

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