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Allow me first to apologize.

I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of the everyday routine,

the security of the familiar, the tranquility, repetition.

You must follow my director. of the familiar, the tranquility, repetition.

You must follow my directions very closely during grave danger.

Understanding our past determines actively our ability to understand the present. How do we sift truth from belief?

How do we write our own histories, personally or culturally,

and thereby define ourselves?

How do we penetrate years, centuries of historical distortion

to find original truth.

The terrible thing about searching for the truth is that sometimes you find it. This is your nautical lantern on the dangerous seas of darkness.

Let's push off from the placid shore of the status quo and explore what's beyond the horizon.

I am your host, BT, and this is Truth and Shadow, your podcast of the supernatural.

How many of us has actually grown up enamored by the knights, the Templars, the

hospitalier?

But when you're Catholic, it's a little bit different because you hear of St. Francis

and St. Dominic, the humble and the brave.

You hear of St. Benedict who flood the corruption of Rome to prey in the brave. You hear of St. Benedict, who flood the corruption of Rome to pray in the wilderness.

You hear of St. John of Arc who basically died for her visions,

and of St. Thomas More, who died rather than lie.

But then you discover in the quiet corners of the Catholic history,

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