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Evangelization, spreading God's love and the message that the God of the universe is in love with a person, in love with a particular person.

It's an atom bomb to the kingdom of darkness.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization and discipleship.

This is Dave Van Vickle.

Just me today again, keeping Gomer in our prayers.

And he's dealing with all kinds of family health issues right now.

But he will be back and better than ever, I think. Well, I mean, how can you improve on GOMER, right? But he will be back soon. We're going to begin our next season soon,

but in the meantime, we have a few just one-off episodes. But again, if you didn't listen to the last

episode, we announce our next season is going to be about the OCI process. So we're going to talk about everything that's going on. If you don't know about this, it's a record breaking year for OCIA. We have so many people in the country coming into the church. And Gomer and I are going to do a season, you know, probably eight to ten episodes, just unpacking it. What is it? What should be taught? What shouldn't be taught?

The history of this process, all of those kinds of things. When you talk about like catechetical

instruction, you're going back so far, right, to the early church. But, you know, we still use some

of the, some of the earliest ones. Like, you know, any, any catechists who's gone down the rabbit hole a little bit will use excerpts from St. Augustine's famous catechesis, right? And so, yeah, I mean, this is, there's plenty of stuff to talk about and to go through and it would be fruitful for anyone in the church, not just those who work for the church or those who are interested in joining the church. So it's going to be a great season. Yeah, I hope you'll join us for that.

How's your length going? That's what I, that's what I want to hear. I want to hear how everybody's

length is going. I feel like mine has been so chaotic. I've never seen demand like this for

speaking. And so I have just been nonstop really working lately. And

unfortunately, it's taken the toll on Lent a lot, you know, just me being able to focus and

enter into it. I think about the Lent that we had when COVID happened. I mean, I was just every

day able to dedicate hours to lend, right?

And it just hasn't been that way lately for me. And so I'm a little bit sad. But at the same

time, you know, you put it in God's hands, right? You put it in God's hands. And it's not about

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