Good morning. Today is Good Friday, and we are, and we are reflecting upon the dolorous

passion and death of the Lord Jesus Christ today, some 2,000 years ago. And in and around, various reflections on that

somber topic, which of course is the prelude to the Lord's victory on Easter Sunday,

we will be taking your phone calls. And I'll be reading your emails.

Pardon me, frog in my throat.

First of, I'd like to begin with an audio just from yesterday of one of the four astronauts who's on the Artemis mission right now on the way back to the moon.

This is Victor Glover, and he is a naval officer who was part of the crew. And he was doing an interview

in which he was asked a particular question that is pretty common that people would ask.

He himself is African American, so you might imagine this is an expected kind of question.

But his answer to the question was unexpected and quite welcomed, if you ask me.

This is Victor Glover doing an interview about the upcoming space mission.

At that time, they are now in space two days into it.

Here's what he had to say.

It is a big question.

And I want to highlight, I guess maybe one facet of this is the tension, I call it.

I live in this, you know, this dichotomy between.

Yeah, sorry, sorry about that.

You're going to hear the whole thing that he says, but the audio doesn't tell you what the question is that he's responding to.

So I'll do that now.

The question that the interviewer asked him is, how do you feel about

being, you know, the first black man, the first African American to go back to the moon? So it was a

question along those lines, but it had to do with his race and how does he feel about the fact

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