Well, look, we are back, Joyce, and we had so much fun the first time.
I mean, this gentleman was telling us off air
that he doesn't usually get invited back after he shoots.
And I said, no, no, that's me.
That's me there, you know?
But Father Ed, is back with us again.
We had so much fun the first time around.
This guy is a legend here in Connecticut and beyond.
And actually global.
He's a TikTok star in many ways, but the man has a heart of gold.
He's helped so many people of different backgrounds and ages.
If you need help, he's the man that will will never turn anybody away.
And it's rare. And I just really admire that.
I mean, yeah,
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Love you Joyce, and, love what you're doing out there.
Father Ed, welcome aboard.
And it's just great to see so many people coming to Jesus nowadays. Yes.
And please watch episode one with Father Ed,
because we we've been talking a lot about so many different things right now.
And, so this is our this is part two.
And I just remembered
I was sharing with father that there was an article that came out about you
that, still is out there today for the New York Times.
It called you.
You know, there's a portrait of an activist priest.
So what made you remember what made them come to you?
And, you know.
And what what were you talking about that made you the headlines?
The activist priests.
Did you did you anger people?
No, I did, I like I can I quote,
the archbishop.
Yeah. This thing called me the active.
She said, you're the most imprudent priest and diocese, that you did one.
Yeah. If you were the most important priest in the diocese.
So you really stir things up a lot, No.
Not really. I,
I guess I do, yeah.
Yeah, I don't, okay. So intense are also.
But, what I really what pushing like I said the last time,
like this picture of Father Paul, he's
in Nigeria, and, we've got
and we're now at 600,000
rosaries in 40 different countries all over the world.
And Father Paul is always asking me for more.
He goes from village to village and, gives the rosary
and I have all kind of pictures,
just one picture of the kids holding up the rosaries.
And those are my rosary.
I do think, I feel when I see a bunch of kids in Nigeria.
After all that really touches me, I if I know you, it'd be he'd be weeping.
Okay. Yeah, yeah, it makes me cry.
But anyways, if you don't have any questions for me,
we could end the program.
But, this would be the shortest episode ever.
You know, when you said the rosary, that really touched me.
Because the the most beautiful woman ever in my life was my grandmother.
And my grandmother was very quiet,
very loving and cooked and hugged.
And she said the rosary.
I don't know how many times a day she would sit in her chair,
or if she had to wait in the car for me, she would just pull out her rosaries. No.
No problem. I'll just sit here.
And she had a heart truly of gold without ever preaching.
And when I left the Catholic Church.
But you never really leave it.
When I left and I went to the Episcopal Church
for a lot of reasons, I thought I was going to try that.
My mother said to me, do not tell your grandmother.
Oh, my gosh, your grandmother will die.
You know, if you tell her that.
And one day she was like washing dishes in my house.
I went over to her and I told her
and I said that the minister was wonderful.
And this is what he did for my family and this is why.
And she said, I'm so happy for you.
She said, God doesn't care.
You know, he loves you
and you love God, and that's all that matters.
And I'm very, very happy. And that was it.
I mean, I had I had a conversation about everyone was so afraid.
It's so nice to know that we serve a God that's cheering for us and loves us,
you know, and loves us no matter what.
I mean, we don't deserve his grace. We don't deserve his mercy.
But it's freely given because of his blood on the cross.
And I've never forgotten that. Yeah.
And he's
he might be frustrated that people aren't turning out for him, for his mercy.
You know,
I always think of, what does I wonder if Jesus and Mary have a conversation,
if they have a cup of coffee together in heaven talking about us,
they must have a lot of things to talk about.
But, he says I am with you always until the end of the world.
And, I live, not I, but Christ left me.
Why? You see how close we are?
The God dwells in me, and he's with me for till the end of the world.
Then when I say that when I go to a funeral, I love funerals.
I love to bury people.
That's my second happen, you know,
I hope somebody varies.
Me. Oh, okay.
There's no follow up question on that, but,
no follow up.
And, at I really they all come in wearing black like I have right now.
I got a problem.
I, you all dressed in black, breast in white.
Well, who's properly dressed at this mess?
Well, the black reminds us of the past.
But the past is history left in God's mercy.
The future is a mystery left in God's providence.
But just the reality is now.
And the reality now is God is present.
We're here to celebrate.
We don't call it poor mass.
We say it's a celebration of the, of the mass as this is a celebration.
What are we celebrating?
Do you ever celebrate at a graduation?
Oh, yeah.
When my kid, I graduated eighth grade at college, we had a great celebration.
He another words. He's gone to another. All of them.
Well, that's what death is.
It's your final graduation to another level of eternity with God.
And so they just look at me.
I don't you dare die and black.
Make sure you die in a way.
Yeah, I agree with that.
That there were three people were shot that day at mass,
for a while.
But it's funny, we look at where all born were born to die.
All of us are going to die.
I'm closer to the tomb than I am to the womb right now.
Yeah, but you're closer to seeing our Heavenly Father.
I don't know if I may have to stop off somewhere in purgatory.
We'll see.
You know, we going to ask you bring up something
that I hear all the time as a therapist, I hear this.
And people, who have lost someone,
you know, and, and grief is normal.
I mean, you you go, you go through that, and at times it pops up even years later.
But I know the most
holy people, Christian people, followers, whatever,
who believed when it didn't happen to them
and then when it
happened to them, they are years into their grief
and are angry and can't get over it.
Do you do you deal with people like that?
And I'm wondering, like what you would say to them, drop dead?
Yeah.
It's okay.
They have you. Yeah.
You know, you got to be careful. We don't.
We should be asking him questions, you know, Joyce, profiles,
on a,
a lot of people.
I remember a nun who was very, very early, and she really.
So sometimes, you know, passes history, are left in God's mercy.
But many times when people are, that, my book is calling me.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's for you, but I'm going to turn it off.
The,
when people are,
one or very angry at the end, they may be angry at themselves
because the past comes in front of them.
I said, you know, the past is history left in God's mercy.
But lots of times they've they're filled with
so much guilt, you know, their their past.
And like, I went to the, hospital a couple of days ago
and his friend died.
Watch out.
What you go into, what you say to him?
I I've only been a priest for 66 years, and, you know,
I've gone through a few hospitals, but he was telling you what to do.
Don't tell him I told you so.
I walk in, a guy looks at me, and I said, yeah, I'm just, passing by.
I don't know who you are.
Can I, can I say hello?
So my time was over. I heard his confession.
I gave him a sacrament of sick, which I'll give you before you leave.
And I gave him Holy Communion, and he was so relieved.
You know, when I said the last sacrament, everything happened yesterday.
I was at a, a lunch with, a priest friend of mine.
And the guy was a psychiatrist.
I think he need to go to a psychiatrist.
So after I listened to him and I met his wife,
who's got Parkinson's disease or something, she's very sick.
I said, well, she she should go get the sacrament of sick.
And he panicked.
ISIS, just looking at you,
when you talk about the sacrament, you think of it as the last sacrament.
But the last sacrament is not I don't if you're dying, don't call me.
I'm not interested.
I just want to see you when you're sick.
So he called you last sacrament because you have baptism, confession,
communion, confirmation, holy orders, marriage and the sacra sick.
It's called the last of the sacrament.
The sacrament is not the Dutch sacrament.
It's the last of his seven.
So by the time I got over, he said, you're you're, My friend sent you over.
I said, no, an angel sent me over. Father.
You're lying, I see I am lying, your brother, your friend, that's.
You're getting an angel spoke to them through.
So another way, he.
By the time I left there, his girlfriend or wife, whatever it was,
they're all laughing.
And my job is to have people.
I'll leave them, I smiling.
I got very upset.
Although I went to the hospital a couple of weeks ago.
I have my little card machine.
I'm business card father and a dolly father.
Father of Dolly.
Good news.
Son 86073352342.
Just a hint A643352342.
So I go up to this guy and I give him my card, and he looks at it.
He's.
Are you still alive?
I, I was ready to kill him.
No, I think so.
I pinched, and and are you still.
I'm only 93, so.
No, but the point is, death is the graduation to
eternal life will be fair.
If you're going to have cert.
I started for the first time. You're going to be afraid.
So this is your first encounter with death.
So fear is normal.
But, what I like about the sacrament is sickness.
I mean, I've seen people crumb healed.
I've seen people with cancer healed.
I've seen, physical miracles.
But the biggest miracle is the spiritual one where he gets the grace to accept.
Okay, God wants me to come.
I'll come.
And, that's why I emphasize to you
when, I have mass after mass, anybody, 65 or over?
I look at it.
Look at these people,
so many people that most of you look as if you're closer to the tomb than you.
Aren't you the world?
So you can come up because you gotta be on Social Security to get into church.
You got to be 65 or over.
We don't let anybody younger than 65.
But I'll tell you, you know, Joe, you're mentioning that that age there father it
I in the church is, the church that I attend 18 to 29 year olds.
Okay.
Demographic is the largest growth segment in the church that I go to.
And I know that New England is the least churched region in the country.
Do you think that's because it's non-denominational?
Non-denominational, but 18 to 29 year olds?
And we're finding that a lot of young men,
especially, are coming now to Jesus more now than ever.
Yeah, that did they say they're waking.
They're getting over the, the, vaping
or the marijuana and and that's not satisfying.
And people today, they're hungry to look inside.
They're hungry for the word. Yeah.
They're they don't know what they're hungry for.
You know, like you say what you want, I don't know what I want.
And they don't know what they want.
They don't don't realize that they want God.
They want Jesus.
And but, there is a turnaround.
But my problem is people are having kids are having dogs.
You know, when you walk down the street, I do a lot of traveling.
I have a gun.
I shoot dogs along the way. Yes.
Don't even say that.
I shoot him with love.
Shoot him with love.
Yes, but that's because it's so expensive now.
It's so expensive to raise a family.
Oh, yeah.
I'm showing you, have I?
I had to think.
I know I have two, but I also raised my grandson, so I consider three.
Well, how did you afford to do that?
At times it has not been easy.
Well, it's supposed to be easy.
No, but if you're if you're thinking of college and all that, it's, Yeah,
I think people are thinking more about that.
They're also thinking, do I want to bring them into this world the way it is?
Could I play the violin for you? Not right now.
All right, well, let me give you an example. I.
I was helping out at, a church of a priest
when I vacation, and it's my hometown.
So there's a park, Stanley Park.
So it it's five, eight, 5/8 of a mile.
I used to run it all the time.
So I'm walking right here.
Beautiful young lady walking with a dog.
I see a good looking young man walking with a dog.
I see another beautiful lady walking out with a dog.
I see another man walking my dog there.
I see a muslim family walking with three kids.
And, why is it that they
could afford to have the three kids while the others cannot afford.
It depends if you want to. What?
I we didn't have a television when I was a kid, or we got radio.
We were hot dogs and hamburgers.
You know, with the way we were brought up, my father never made more than $7,000.
But I still banks.
I got more money to add to the fabric, but no, he and he made it.
My brother went to college.
I went to college. My sister went to college.
And my mother never made, She made solid $65 a week.
My father never made seven.
But somehow we scraped and he took loans.
And so it's your priorities.
I'll tell you what I'll take up to you for everyone.
I'll give you a dollar for everyone who are watching this movie
and calls you up that they call.
I'll give you a dollar for every one who calls you and says, I watch this program.
But then I turned it off when I saw him.
So I guess I've, you know,
episodes rated right.
I'm making a point somewhere along the line.
I'll fight it somewhere.
But how do you spell busy?
A give anybody watching watching this program.
I'll give you $100.
If you could tell me what spell. Busy.
And what does it mean?
How do you spell busy?
Well, I know how you spell busy.
Oh, tell me how you spell busy. I want to make sure. To who?
Yeah, a lot of people can't read here. Right?
So big.
Yeah.
You s why?
If I actually give you the answer, don't you keep quiet.
Well, what does b u s y?
I mean,
the what does it mean?
The under Satan's yoke?
Oh, yes. I've heard that they.
When people feel like I don't have any time to prayer.
That's it for a prayer.
That's exactly what it is I tell you to.
It's a matter of priorities.
Don't show this to anybody, okay?
Just.
Just between you and me, I was talking to one of the bishops.
I said I.
Archbishop, I put on 65 shows
a Augustan Tolton, Saint Teresa.
Say, Faustina, Maximilian Colby.
Others. Yes.
You pay for the production of these beautiful plays.
Yeah. It cost $4,000 a piece. Yeah.
Cost me almost a quarter of money.
This is over a few years.
So I said to the Archbishop, well,
he says, I'm busy.
And I said, you're a bishop.
Do you know I spell busy? What do you mean?
Why do you spare us? Why?
What does it mean?
The under Satan's your.
I'm not your priority.
That's what you're saying. I'm.
Everything else is. You're busy.
Everything else is. You're.
We're all busy.
You're busy and you're putting up with me forever. That's your
biases.
That's your.
It's your priority.
What are you. You're too busy.
What do you pray?
You're too busy to go to church?
Because I'm playing soccer on Sunday.
You know, too busy to take my kids up because I'm working two jobs.
I'm too busy.
Is your excuse for not doing something?
Your business is your priority, and that's your priority.
And I'm not your priority. He showed up at the next show.
Well, that's a really good point, because it's like with tithing,
you know, and and I, and I take that seriously
to the first part of my day goes to God when I wake up each and every morning
when choice and I talk about that, I spend time with God.
Yeah. And, spend time in gratitude.
I make time for him,
and I ask him to put people in my path every day that I can be good to each
and every day.
And I spend time with spirit, mind and body with God and show him priorities.
So right.
We could have a nice car, we could have the best TV.
We could drive vacations.
I remember one, Valerie's father.
I can't afford to pay the Catholic.
Catholic, tuition, so I felt sorry for him.
Then I find out he's got infinity.
And it was going down to where his kids are.
Down to Florida, to Disneyland.
It's now your priorities.
Yeah. And if, how do you. What? What?
Is there a gentler way of saying this, to people?
Because my priority is my family is number one.
Yeah.
And then comes my work for my ain't for income.
Yeah.
So when a friend would call and say, you know, we gotta go out and have dinner,
it's hard to say.
You're not my priority right now.
It sounds kinder to say.
My life is very full right now. Yeah, right.
Yeah. So you could say I hate you, too,
but I don't.
I know, I know, you say I, I can't afford it.
You know what?
It's not. I can't afford it. It's like I can't.
There's always so much time in a day.
I can't afford the times.
I don't just say, yeah, yeah, not fine actually.
Yeah, but I do love them.
I would love to see so many people.
I always say, how could I say no less?
But a lot of you don't I?
At 93, I have to look for what my name is and make sure I am a father.
Do you remember me?
How could I?
How could I ever forget?
But I.
But I also, you know, I really believe that God is the source anyway.
And everything else is a resource.
I believe that God is the source.
So if I seek first the kingdom of God, everything else will come into play.
As far as resources, the right people,
my my livelihood doesn't depend on my income.
It doesn't mean and my job depends on God.
I work under him. He's my employer. I really believe that.
And he wouldn't provide the vision without the provision.
And I sincerely believe that.
Father, I want to.
Going back to my example, 38% of French is, Muslim.
Now, if you go into a restaurant, it's a muslim waiting for you.
Like one Muslim said very wisely, we're not going to defeat you with armaments.
We're going to defeat you with our population.
Right now, the, the population isn't
increasing is decreasing, but, Muslim population.
So I say in 100 years, Europe is going to be Muslim,
like North Africa is much less, and,
because their priority is family, you know?
So doesn't God love the Muslims?
Oh, yeah. Absolutely.
God loves every he die for everybody. Right.
So my point is the world that we're saving
isn't isn't Christianity as it was
Europe used to be Christian.
But no, no it's not.
The world has lost the value and the priority of Christ.
Grace is not number one there.
But, God loves everybody, and I know how it's going to turn out.
I just it's going to be God's time, not my time.
I know the world will be one with Christ at the end.
There's no question in my mind I don't believe it, I know it,
and if I didn't, I wouldn't be talking to you right now.
I'd be playing golf somewhere here. So.
But because I believe
I know how it's going to end up, and I love my, my favorite prayer.
And you, Lord, is my hope.
And I shall never hope in vain.
Because God is my hope.
I never hope my my favorite like is Proverbs.
I love you know, trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean
not into my own understanding, my own understanding,
and all thy ways acknowledge you, and you will direct my past.
Yeah, I love that.
And also the prayer of Jabez.
You know, bless me, father, in deed.
Enlarge my territory.
I expand my influence, you know, take my hand to keep me away from all evil.
So I may cause no pain.
And I love that.
And I've said each and every morning, every night before I go to bed.
But the proverbs I love and yeah, just over and over again.
He keeps me on track.
You know he is.
You send me things and it's like just what I need.
I just think about,
you know, God watching this podcast for I know Joyce and Father Ed and say,
God, they're bragging on me.
The angels going back and saying, these folks are bragging on me.
They love you, God.
You know?
And I just think about every time I get together with family
and friends and talk about God, I love bragging on God wherever I go.
Yeah.
You have any other questions?
We got 30.5 minutes.
I want to know, when did you decide know
that you wanted to be a priest?
When I, when I was younger,
we had no Catholic high school in New Britain.
We had no East Catholic and North West Catholic South.
We had no Saint Thomas Aquinas in, New Britain.
So if you wanted a Catholic education, you got to the seminary.
You could get a Catholic education.
I had 670 classmates that got out of high school.
Only seven of them went on to study.
And of those seven, just a handful.
I became a priest.
So we didn't get to go there to be priest.
We went there to get a Catholic education.
But when I got there,
I, I played all this sport basketball, baseball and everything else.
I wasn't good, but it's good enough to be a waterboy and a little more.
But, when I was 19, I decided I wanted to get married.
I told, told my confessor ashes.
Father, I think I want to get married.
I like girls, he said that's normal.
So what's your other problem?
But I like girls.
I said, that's normal. What's your other problem?
He said, why don't you finish college?
I was a second year of college.
And you said, why should finish college?
So I went to, got, to,
Saint Bernard's in Rochester for to my, philosophy courses.
And then I, I, finished that and for some reason,
they, they want me to go to a good Catholic university.
That's where smart kids came when I was playing.
I had to quit tennis because I was flunking chemistry.
After a few years of, our nation,
the Chris father, Daley, who was a chemistry teacher.
Eddie, you weren't the brightest light in the class.
So some, we went to Catholic.
You and I took, they told me to become,
get a masters in, American history.
So I took a course in historical method.
I flunked, I was consistent, I used to fly all the time,
so I, I flunked.
Did I, I said, I, I better go to summer school.
So I walk into class and a guy like. Preacher.
What are you doing here? You flunked me.
And I said, you get out of here.
So he threw me out and gave me a B, and I went to summer.
Wow. I went to summer school, and I was the first kid
in a class to get a masters of all applied because I had to go to summer school.
So I heard a very spiritual advice.
Every kick in the ass is a step forward.
You don't go back when you get kicked.
Every kick that I've got, everyone at that time was terrible.
I cried sometimes, just some of the things that I went through,
and I cried my eyes out.
But looking back, that kick was a step for it.
And I think I think if you look at life that way, the the problems
that you have there going to be a, a way of, of stepping forward,
whether it's sickness, whether the financial,
whether it's family, whatever it is, whatever the problem may
be, it's a step or a step forward.
I know, Joyce, we say this all the time.
Nobody say, wait,
you say the comeback is always bigger and better than the setback?
Yeah.
Every setback is really a set up for something better in life.
Because you grow during adversity.
And when you're kicked down
and some of somebody, somebody else says, if you fall, fall forward.
Yeah, yeah. Right.
So it really does open up the opportunity makes it easier if you know that.
So if you get fired from a job or whatever, say
I wonder what else is coming up.
Something great must be cleaned up.
And keep your eyes and ears open for maybe a set of closing down
and being depressed or getting drunk.
Whatever things are, certain things are here for a season.
Rejoice. Yeah, yeah, for a season.
And that's what we want right here for a season.
Yeah. Okay. You got 3.5 minutes left.
Where do you go from here?
Say, there's a stopwatch over here.
You know what I love about you?
I love how much you love Jesus and how much you love Mary.
And I think there's always been a misconception about Mary.
I remember just briefly, I'll tell this quickly when I moved
to, North Carolina, Winston-Salem, 2003,
and I went to the doctors, and the nurse there was from Canada,
and we just started to talk about, our lives.
And she said to me,
oh, dear God, don't tell anyone, you hear that you are Catholic.
And he said, why?
She said, Because I'm Catholic, came from Canada,
and she thinks we're all a cult because we pray,
we we talk to Mary or we, we we like the saints.
And she said, and the evangelicals just don't understand that
Jesus is the one priority.
But we also respect and honor.
I learned a long time if I want to get to my father, I always went to my mother.
She would intercede for me.
And if we want to get to Jesus, go to hell.
Yeah, go to Mary.
But you don't have to go to Mary first.
Or do you always go to Mary first?
Oh, no, I don't.
It turns out I have to mass.
I sit there for an hour or so, fall asleep.
That's where I get my desk after, unless the phone rings and Kate wakes me up.
No, I talk to my room.
I have pictures of Jesus. I have pictures of Mary.
See your car? Yes.
And the emphasis is on Jesus. Yeah.
And you get an easy way to get to Jesus is through Mary.
An easy way for me to get to my dad was to my mother.
It's a natural in a just a natural tendency
of going to your mother to get to get to your father.
So going to Mary, you're not, adoring her.
It's not a cult. Right?
Jesus went to Mary all his life. Yeah.
Your whole life you went to Mary, and, She was taking it to heaven.
So we don't.
We don't treat her as a god. That's a cult.
Yeah, a lot of people I remember there's a guy I debated. He.
He called himself, Jesus, you know,
and he had a complete cult there, and totally fine.
And I went, I radio with him, and it's.
This guy's a phony. And he was eventually,
this isn't a cult to marry.
This is love.
It's a love for the mother of God.
Yeah. To love Mary is to love God.
Love Jesus.
So it has nothing to do with a cult.
But, when you, when you pray, like yesterday, I was really frustrated.
I must be getting up.
I couldn't find my phone,
and I says to Saint Anthony, if I don't follow Saint Anthony.
Anthony the.
The saint who helps you find things.
Yes, it's it's in my book. Yeah. Yes.
I said, Saint Anthony, if you don't come through it.
This was 10:00 at night, and I think the devil was there
because I was doing supper, but I was downstairs.
I went over to Mike and I said, Saint Anthony, if you don't come through,
that's the last time I ever talked to you.
I don't I don't talk nice to saints. I tell him what to do.
And I'm sitting there
and I look up and there's my phone right in front of me.
Where the heck did that come from?
I had a similar situation, and my son came in and said, yeah,
I was looking for something for a long time.
And he said, aren't you supposed to pray to like, I think it's Saint Anthony?
And I said, oh my gosh, I forgot.
I did, and he left the house and I called him and I said, you'll
never guess what.
I bent down and there it was, in a place I looked 20 times.
And so did you. There it is. Yeah.
So there's something to be said for that, because most people,
when they lose something, they're saying something else. Oh, yeah.
And I'm guilty of that as time soon all right.
And it's like father, I repent.
Yeah I wish people when they have children,
don't call them Rose or call Hector.
I call them Rose or, or Tigers.
Call them a saints name and, have your child imitate that saint.
But they don't do that.
Well, see, with your plays that you put on, they get to know the saints
and a really deep, you know, a personal way about their lives.
Your beautiful, beautiful father.
Thank you so much.
Thank you for being with us today.
Give the audience a bless you with love, loving father.
Thank you.
May God the Father bless you.
May God the Son heal you.
May God the Holy Spirit strengthen you.
May Joseph marry to seek for you and all his saints.
Pray for you and your whole family and our country and neighbor, father,
son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.
Thank you father. Thank you so much.
And by the way, if you ever get thrown in jail again,
you can reach out to Joyce so she'll take care of your bail.
A bail bond that's about.
She's told me where to go for a long time.
Yeah, I've been told where to go many, many times.
My wife listening right now. Watch.
Thank you so much for another rollicking edition
of What's Good with John and Joyce.
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I'm John Cadillac Seville
from iHeart radio with my dear friend Joyce Logan is a blast.
We'd like to thank everybody behind the scenes, Stefania
and David here at Direct Line.
We appreciate them as well because, you know, without them we don't have a show.
And Father Ed, thank you so much for everything you do.
We love you, but most importantly, the world loves you.
And thank you so much. God bless both of you.
I bless you as well, sir.