Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vot, the senior publishing director at Word on Fire.

Today we continue our series of talks from the recent Good News conference which was held in Orlando, Florida about a year ago.

This one is from Father Stephen Gadbury and the talk is titled The Baptismal Priesthood and Evangelization.

As Father Gadbury explains, every baptized Christian shares in Jesus' offices of priest, prophet, and king.

But in this talk he focuses specifically on the priestly role and discusses the responsibility of every Christian, not just ministerial priest,

but all Christians to pray and work in union with Christ for the sanctification of the world.

It's a great talk. I think you'll really enjoy it. If you are interested in more talks like this, I encourage you to sign up for the next Good News conference which will be held in Orlando, Florida in November of 2023.

You can learn more and sign up at the website goodnewsconference.com. Bishop Baron will be there as one of the keynote speakers. Also Tim Tibo, the great college football player, also NFL player.

Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, Father Dave Pavonka, and many more. So learn more, sign up at the website goodnewsconference.com.

But for now, sit back and enjoy this talk from Father Stephen Gadbury titled The Baptismal Priesthood and Evangelization. Enjoy.

Good morning everybody. We all doing all right? Good. Fantastic. Florida. Here we are. Yeah. How do you get started on these things? It's always something you come to these situations and you don't know, uh, well, whatever.

How's it going? How's it going? How are y'all doing? Good. Fantastic. Some participation over here. Great. Clap for them. Great. What are you grateful for? That's a very important question to consider. I always like to start talks and little reflections and stuff like that with that little question. What are you grateful for right now?

You know, just thinking your heart, something that you're grateful for, family, life, maybe, you know, a good night of sleep or whatever it may be. What are you grateful for? Gratitude is so big.

Fantastic talk so far though, huh? Good. Alrighty. We'll get her going in just a second. Get some traction. But, uh, yeah. So last night I was playing on being here for the mass, got in late.

The plane that was we were supposed to fly on from Dallas to Orlando. The flight was coming from Miami and was leaving the storm and it got struck by lightning. Apparently that happens, I guess. I don't know. Luckily it didn't crash, but it made it so they had to ground it and read to everything.

So we left late. They'd give us a different plane. Anyhow, came and I was here for the dinner though and Father Mike's talk. Fantastic. Huh? Do you hear Father Mike's talk? And he great.

And it's really neat to just hear preachers like him, like Chris, like Jackie, like the rest of the people that we're going to hear throughout this weekend. People who love the Lord and share that love with other people.

I'll be honest. I'll, um, the last night after we finished dinner, I went back to the room and I was thinking, how am I going to follow that up?

Because he said everything that I was going to say. So I had to go home and to the room and rewrite everything, but I got to the room and I thought that was going to be a safe refuge. Like, okay, good. I can just escape it all and I got in and I said, this is a nice hotel room.

I don't know how y'all's rooms are. Mine was super nice. It is. I'm still there. It is super nice. There's more marble in the bathroom than both of my parishes combined.

So anyhow, I get there to the room last night and I'm just amazed that the marble is there in the bathroom and I'm like, uh, and then I check out the bathroom because I need to use the restroom.

And there's a shower and a bathtub, but no toilet. Like, well, gosh, where's the toilet? So I looked around. There's like another bathroom within the bathroom for the toilet.

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