S4 E21 Spy Wednesday with Minister Gabrielle Torres
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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In this episode Kerry and local Catholic lay minister Gabrielle Torres discuss Ash Wednesday, Lent, and Spy Wednesday, exploring Catholic traditions about Holy Week and how it should affect us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Scriptures Are Real, one of our special additions. |
| 0:14.4 | This is for Holy Week or Passion Week, and we're trying to help everyone better commemorate |
| 0:20.2 | and celebrate what Christ has done for us, |
| 0:22.2 | especially at this wonderful time of year. I'm your host, Kerry Mielstein, and I'm so excited |
| 0:26.8 | to have with us as a guest. This is Gabriel. You go by Gabe Torres. Yeah, Gabe Torres. Yeah, |
| 0:31.6 | thank you. Thank you, Terry. Oh, thank you for being with us. So Gabe is a lay minister for the Catholic Church here in this area, right? |
| 0:40.0 | Right. Correct. |
| 0:41.1 | Tell us a little bit more about yourself and what you do. |
| 0:43.5 | Yeah, I live here. Thank you, Kerry. |
| 0:45.7 | And thank you for having me here on your podcast here. |
| 0:51.2 | Yes, I live here in Orham, Utah, and my parish here is St. Francis of a C.C. Catholic |
| 0:57.6 | Church. I'm involved in quite a bit of ministries, and I do, I help out a lot in my Catholic faith. |
| 1:10.1 | I'm, again, a lay minister. I do jail ministry also. I'm also |
| 1:15.7 | involved in a Bible study every Sunday. And we just really dig into our faith so that we can grow |
| 1:25.4 | closer to God and to be able to walk this, this beautiful journey. So, so, uh, involved in quite a bit of stuff. And so anyway, so I, I stay pretty busy. Yeah. Well, I'm sure you do because you also have a day job. Correct. And construction, is that right? Yes. I'm a general contractor here in the county oh good well we may need your |
| 1:45.3 | help sometimes uh but but in any case uh we're grateful you'd make time for us you were highly |
| 1:50.3 | recommended to us so we're grateful you to make time thank you um and we're going through at trying |
| 1:55.7 | to talk about what what holy week or passion week means to individuals of different faiths and how you might |
| 2:03.3 | celebrate it. So maybe you could share that with us and maybe a little bit in particular about |
| 2:07.8 | Lent and Ash Wednesday, but whatever you'd like to talk about. Sure. Sure. Let me, Carrie, |
| 2:11.7 | let me start off with Ash Wednesday, which is coming up here March 5th. It's a big day for us, us Catholics. It's a time, |
| 2:22.1 | is a period of time to where we do a lot of reconciling, penance, spiritual growth, |
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