G'day, everybody. Welcome to Pines with Aquinas. My name is Matt Fred. And today I want to share with you

my three most cringe worthy post conversion moments. I shared this with my local supporters the

other day and it was kind of fun. I was actually I felt embarrassed sharing this with people. So

first of all, I think it's okay to be so in love with Jesus, especially in that kind of

beginning stage where you lack prudence. It's kind of like when you fall in love with someone

and you want to tell everyone about them, like Susie's the best. And the other people are like,

I'm sure she is, but just, you know, don't have to be as spars about it. Um, I think it's okay

to be to be important. And I think like when you're young and full of energy, it's sort of expected.

So I'm not I'm not I'm not putting too much crap on myself for it, but these are extraordinarily

cringy. So or 17 years old, I was a agnostic because atheism was not yet a cool way of showing

that you were intelligent or more intelligent. So I thought, well, agnostic because, you know,

that sounds spiritual or something. So I go over the world you stay in Rome. You may have heard

the story. I come back a full fledged Christian. I it was I really went from God doesn't exist to

holy macro. Holy macro. God exists. Jesus Christ is who he claimed to be. The Catholics are right.

I want to do nothing else, but think about our blessed Lord and talk about him forever.

So, um, I was in my senior year of high school. Let's think what's the first cringy thing that I

did? These these are actually really embarrassing to share. As I'm thinking about them, I'm like,

oh, don't do that. All right, here's the first one. So I was really big into heavy metal as a teenager.

And I still listen to heavy metal if I'm working out, but I was into metal that was bordering on

the anti-Christian. So when I came back from Rome, I took this gigantic garden table. No,

that's it. Well, I wasn't gigantic. It was just very heavy. It wasn't gigantic. It was heavy

garden table. Put it in my room, put a gigantic painting of our Lord crown with thorns on it.

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