Well, good morning and welcome everybody live here at the National Shrine of Divine Mercy.

I'm Father Chris. We have a full house here today. It's beautiful. And I'm excited for a couple

reasons. When I gave this talk, or I should say when I prepared this talk, there's some things I

learned new that I did not know. And I'm excited to share those with you.

We also have the joy of having cameraman Giuseppe right here in the front row.

So yes.

So praise me to God that the Lord is taking care of him, and we're very grateful.

And so let us begin with the prayer of Thanksgiving.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Heavenly Father, we ask you send the Holy Spirit down upon us to open our minds and hearts.

To receive the grace you wish to best bestow the grace to know our faith,

so we can love our faith.

And we ask all this through Christ, our Lord.

Amen.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

Okay, so it's great to be back. I've been away on a visitation to our seminary in California. And then yesterday I did the most grueling conference I've ever done

in my whole life, five full-length long talks over an hour.

And then I signed books in between.

So we decided I was I was going to fly out after the conference.

San Francisco traffic, God bless you people in the Bay Area that can survive that every day. It took us over two hours to go like 28 miles. So we got there,

and then I flew the red eye from 9 p.m. San Francisco time. So midnight, our time last night,

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