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You know, my very favorite priest, his name is Father Targonski.

He's a little Polish guy, and he just retired from the Navy.

He was a military chaplain, and he just retired from the Navy a couple of years ago.

And he was a man who absolutely walked me through my greatest period of spiritual and religious

development that I've had to date.

He took me by the hand.

He never let me go.

And he was facilitating a mass one day, and he's Franciscan.

And he had been away. He had just gotten back from being in Chicago, and he was doing a spiritual retreat for a bunch of Franciscan sisters.

And at that spiritual retreat, the sisters were celebrating one of their

own. And she was 98 years old, and she had been a Franciscan sister for 80 years. I know, right?

So part of this retreat was celebrating her 80 years of devotion to being a Franciscan sister.

And Father Ski said that she was waiting on an elevator that was doing it someplace in Chicago

where he had to wait a while for an elevator to come up several floors and get you.

And he sat down next to her and he said, oh, my goodness, sister, what an amazing, amazing gift you've given us.

You have been faithful to God for 80 years.

That's simply amazing.

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