Welcome back to The Exorcist Files, where it's time to repent and observe the season of Lent.

I'm your co-host, Ryan Bethay, and today we bring you part three of Father's Lenton Audio Retreat, Jesus and Satan.

And if that title didn't interest you, well, I don't know what will.

Before we start today's episode, I do want to give a little shout out to my dear friend,

Father Gregory Pine, who might make a cameo in one of the ad reads later. I had the privilege

of sitting down with him recently in an old beer garden and winery to talk about the very

important question of how to find your identity in Christ and discover

just what to do with our lives. So if you're feeling a little lost, if you're wrestling with any

spiritual questions, or you just want to hear Father Pine use words that necessitate multiple

thesauri. Is that even the plural? Then check out the born again identity. Yeah, I know. The

Born Again Identity,

a limited series podcast,

is now streaming on EWTN.com,

or you can click the links in the show notes.

And with that,

let's bring on Father Martins. Thank you. Hello, friends. We've reached the third meditation of our Lenton retreat. In the first meditation, we learned that

discipleship is the minimum condition for a relationship with Jesus. He is not interested in any

relationship less than discipleship. In the second meditation, we examined a very broken disciple in St. Peter.

His brokenness revealed itself repeatedly, so much so, that Peter decided to leave the Lord's company and abandon him in his suffering.

Peter was frustrated that he could not give Jesus everything Jesus wanted.

But Jesus never rejected Peter, never threw him away. Jesus never decommissioned anyone. He never

discarded a single soul. Even Judas was forgiven by him. And if you recall, in Gethsemini, at the very

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