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Hello friends, I'm Catholic speaker and author Deacon Harold Burke Syvers

and I'm invited you to check out breaking the bread a biblical devotional for studios here at the St Paul Center, getting ready to move into our new headquarters,

but I am joined today by a dear friend of many years and an amazing priest.

Someone from the Duluth diocese that all of you probably know.

Welcome, Father Mike Schmitz.

Good to see you.

Thanks, Dr. Hind, it's great to be with you today. Yeah, so here we are in the beginning of a new year. At the same time, we've been in the new liturgical year for several weeks since the dawn of Advent but technically speaking here on Friday

January 5th we are still in the Christmas season because Christmas is more than one day and so I want to say to you and to all of those who are watching us,

Merry Christmas, whenever you're watching us. Absolutely, Merry Christmas to you as well. Yeah. So real quickly, I wanted to ask if you've had any thoughts in looking over a book that I sent to you, Catholics in exile, biblical wisdom for the journey home what what

feedback what questions or what observations might you want to share oh I well

first of all I think I mentioned this to you before, but I have almost two copies of almost every one of your books. So I'll get the audible version or whatever the audio version is and then I'll have the hard copy like I have right here.

Because the audio version is the best way. I get to drive down the road, get to listen to your words, and then the hard copies because I know I will have students who want to borrow your book from me,

whatever the book is. And I also know that for myself when it comes to Hanalies is I'm going to like, I'm going to

underline things, I'm going to circle things, I'm going to make all these notes in the margin,

I'm going to need to use it later on.

So when it comes to this book in particular, a Catholic in exile, I had done, speaking of

Pommelies, I had done a series about exile, about living in exile.

I'm not too long ago you must have I don't know if this had this book had gone to

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