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🗓️ 6 November 2025
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Only a few weeks from Advent, Fr. John and Fr. Sean offer an introduction to Fr. John’s latest book, “Illuminate: A Guided Advent Journal for Prayer and Meditation.” As they discuss how the work came to be, its structure and form, they offer practical tips for preparing for the coming liturgical season. For more on the journal, visit https://www.avemariapress.com/products/illuminate?srsltid=AfmBOooQ4QVlETqSrUNAR-azm7icXadlVb2QyvChwD372LhMFCiKQke7.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Catholic Stuff You Should Know, a J-10 initiative. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey, welcome to the podcast. Father John here with. |
| 0:12.2 | Father John. |
| 0:13.4 | As always in Denver, Colorado, and another spectacular October day. |
| 0:18.2 | Fall day. Look at the leaves outside. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, we're sitting at Our Lady Lord's Parish, and leaves are coming down. |
| 0:25.2 | I was up in the mountains for a couple days this week for a staff retreat, and they're down. |
| 0:29.7 | It's snow's coming. |
| 0:31.5 | I asked the kids at school, I was like, is anybody ready for snow? |
| 0:34.8 | And they all just went nuts. |
| 0:36.5 | I bet they did. |
| 0:37.1 | So we're all feeling it that |
| 0:39.6 | kind of cool october weather and uh ready for ski season to begin i went for i go for like |
| 0:46.3 | two mountain bike rides all year and i went for one on wednesday and it was great yeah the leaves |
| 0:52.2 | were changing it was beautiful day up at laro the bear i saw that strava strava it was great yeah the leaves were changing it was beautiful day up at laro the bear i saw that |
| 0:55.3 | strava strava it was great very simple so yep well some things don't change with the seasons |
| 1:02.4 | one of which is the uh minnesota goodbye that i get when i talk to my mom you know what a minnesota |
| 1:07.5 | goodbye is like uh just i mean Wisconsin does the same thing right |
| 1:12.4 | it's like Matt book it's just like okay goodbye but then it's like three hours later they still |
| 1:17.0 | have been left yeah so it's kind of like all right mom good talking to you love you I'll see you |
| 1:22.2 | tomorrow tomorrow and she's like okay love you so much and much. And then it's like, she's like, |
| 1:27.9 | hey, |
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