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To be a radical disciple of Jesus Christ is what we're supposed to do.

And in order for us to do that, we can't reduce it to calendar items.

We cannot reduce it to checklists. It has to be a living, breathing relationship between God and us and us and those God

created. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, every knee shall bow your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization and discipleship.

My name is Dave Van Vickle.

I'm without my fearless leader here, Michael Gormley, or my partner, whatever you want to call him.

He might be out saving the world, I think, is what it's going on. I haven't checked my emails closely enough. But we're going to continue on with our series here. I don't know how your pre-Lent is going, but I think you're probably starting to think about that kind of stuff right now, like what you're going to do for Lent and everything. I know it always sneaks up on me like crazy. It's always someone asks me like what I'm doing for Lent before I even think about it, unfortunately. And I hate that about myself. And so this year I've been trying to be really like every day just spending like five minutes thinking about like what are the things I really need to change and what are some things that you know maybe lent would be the perfect time to work on so yeah I'd encourage you to do

the same I'm my lent is going to be absolutely swamped I'm doing missions almost every single week

of lent and and lots of stuff in between those missions so yeah keep me in prayer and also

yeah check out my calendar of the cath Catholic truth about angels and demons.com.

See if there's a mission near you. I'd love to love to meet some of you. And I hope you come out

and, and hear, um, the mission I'm doing this year is basically my story and then my family

story. It's just a two-night mission. And I

really love it. I really love doing it. It's one of my favorite, like, speaking things I've ever

done. And so I've just really tried to put our story at the hands of the Lord and just let him

mold it because I realize so much resonates with people out there that

you know we just we've been through a lot in our family and and so is everybody else.

I mean, it's a fallen world and people have been through it, you know, and so we come together

for two days and we try to kind of

kind of just reconcile this idea of God who loves us and pursues us and desperately wants

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