Well, good morning and thank you everybody for joining us here live at the National Shrine

of the Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It's a beautiful day. We're glad you could be with us.

And we are dealing today with a very special topic as part of our first Saturday series of explaining the faith.

And that is one we've never done, but in actuality, you hear me say this a lot.

They're all so important.

But this one is especially important.

And that is because of something that I just realized doing more research for this talk,

that I should have talked about this earlier because

there's one key factor about this one that makes it such a valuable tool that we need now more

than ever. And so we're going to be talking about Our Lady of Good Counsel. And so as you

can see from the slide up there, it is a very important message.

But most of all, it's help for you in something that you need more than anything else, and we'll explain what that is.

So let us begin 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 bless our time, open our hearts to receive your grace,

especially the grace to lead us to eternal life.

And we ask through the intercession of our lady of good counsel

that we be guided and blessed and protected and we ask all this

through Christ our Lord amen in the name of the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit

amen well thank you again everybody for joining us we have a nice group here today at the shrine

and we're going to be talking about something that of all the devotions

and there are many and there are many that are more perhaps you could say significant in many

...