Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life.

Hi welcome back. I am just back from the great country of Australia. I was just there for a

quick trip 22 talks and six days and two different cities and it was so

Wonderful meeting so many great faithful people there in Australia. I met so many wonderful clergy, school teachers,

catechists, parents. The faith is definitely alive down under and I sense the

Lord preparing the groundwork there for some great work here in the new

evangelization and you could see it especially in the young people. I gave three presentations

on three different universities and met hundreds, hundreds of young people who are on fire for the

faith, they're seeking truth, they're longing to live for something greater than what the world is

offering them, they're studying theology, the body, they want to live their relationships and sexuality better.

It was really impressive seeing so many of these young people.

And I want to share with you one little part of the talk

that I gave to the young people and it was really inspired by something that happened to me

in the weeks leading up to my trip to Australia.

You see I would be on the weekends running some errands and every time I'd go into a store

I'd hear a popular song as a song that's very popular these days and and I kept hearing the song everywhere I'd go. It was in the

grocery store, it would be when I was in the sports store, I was in a department

store, I remember hearing it when I was at a soccer stadium everywhere I went I kept hearing this

song you may have heard the song it's by the artist Ed Sheerin it's called

the shape of you and I remember I kept hearing and after a while I started listening

closer because I thought is he really saying this and I'd listen closer and I'd

catch the chorus and he kept repeating something I, he really is saying this.

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