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

Hello and welcome back to the show. I am just back from the land down under where I was doing a five day

tour throughout Australia particularly in the Sydney area and it was such a blessing

meeting so many faithful there faithful Catholic school teachers and

Laeity clergy married couples young adults university students and I just want to

give a big shout out to the many new Australian listeners and

the many people been listening faithfully over the last couple of years.

I have met so many people everywhere I went.

I kept meeting people who are listening to the podcast.

It's so exciting to have you listeners down there from Australia.

And I want to ask all of my listeners if they could pray for the church in Australia.

They're fighting a big cultural battle down there, very secular, and they need our

prayers as they're trying to bring about

renewal and trying to raise good families in a secular culture.

So you got our prayers Australia.

I also want to ask your prayers for Focus, the new Focus Missionaries.

Over the last month I've been traveling a lot

to Ave Maria, Florida, as well as Bismarck,

U-Mary, University of Mary there,

where those are the two sites where we've been doing our summer training.

June is the month of summer training for focus and that's where we're

launching hundreds of new missionaries to begin their work of

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