1 00:00:00,233 --> 00:00:04,437 Well, look, we are back, Joyce, and we had so much fun the first time. 2 00:00:04,437 --> 00:00:06,940 I mean, this gentleman was telling us off air 3 00:00:06,940 --> 00:00:09,943 that he doesn't usually get invited back after he shoots. 4 00:00:10,410 --> 00:00:11,845 And I said, no, no, that's me. 5 00:00:11,845 --> 00:00:13,013 That's me there, you know? 6 00:00:13,013 --> 00:00:15,181 But Father Ed, is back with us again. 7 00:00:15,181 --> 00:00:17,083 We had so much fun the first time around. 8 00:00:17,083 --> 00:00:19,986 This guy is a legend here in Connecticut and beyond. 9 00:00:19,986 --> 00:00:21,221 And actually global. 10 00:00:21,221 --> 00:00:24,224 He's a TikTok star in many ways, but the man has a heart of gold. 11 00:00:24,391 --> 00:00:27,160 He's helped so many people of different backgrounds and ages. 12 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:30,797 If you need help, he's the man that will will never turn anybody away. 13 00:00:30,864 --> 00:00:32,632 And it's rare. And I just really admire that. 14 00:00:32,632 --> 00:00:33,400 I mean, yeah, 15 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,903 What's Good with Johnny Joyce is sponsored by woodwinds Wedding and Special Events 16 00:00:36,903 --> 00:00:40,907 Venue in Branford, Connecticut and Silvio's award winning Italian sauces, 17 00:00:41,007 --> 00:00:44,144 which you can buy anytime online at silvio's. 18 00:00:44,144 --> 00:00:48,148 Sauces.com that's silvio's sauces.com. 19 00:00:48,248 --> 00:00:49,849 well, welcome to the scoop with John and Joyce. 20 00:00:49,849 --> 00:00:53,253 I'm John Cadillac Seville from iHeartRadio and my partner Logan. 21 00:00:53,553 --> 00:00:56,222 Love you Joyce, and, love what you're doing out there. 22 00:00:56,222 --> 00:00:57,490 Father Ed, welcome aboard. 23 00:00:57,490 --> 00:01:01,294 And it's just great to see so many people coming to Jesus nowadays. Yes. 24 00:01:01,294 --> 00:01:04,431 And please watch episode one with Father Ed, 25 00:01:04,431 --> 00:01:07,901 because we we've been talking a lot about so many different things right now. 26 00:01:08,001 --> 00:01:11,738 And, so this is our this is part two. 27 00:01:12,038 --> 00:01:13,339 And I just remembered 28 00:01:13,339 --> 00:01:16,910 I was sharing with father that there was an article that came out about you 29 00:01:17,510 --> 00:01:21,448 that, still is out there today for the New York Times. 30 00:01:21,848 --> 00:01:23,016 It called you. 31 00:01:23,016 --> 00:01:26,686 You know, there's a portrait of an activist priest. 32 00:01:27,220 --> 00:01:30,223 So what made you remember what made them come to you? 33 00:01:30,223 --> 00:01:32,525 And, you know. 34 00:01:32,525 --> 00:01:36,930 And what what were you talking about that made you the headlines? 35 00:01:36,930 --> 00:01:39,265 The activist priests. 36 00:01:39,265 --> 00:01:40,967 Did you did you anger people? 37 00:01:40,967 --> 00:01:44,537 No, I did, I like I can I quote, 38 00:01:45,538 --> 00:01:46,639 the archbishop. 39 00:01:46,639 --> 00:01:48,374 Yeah. This thing called me the active. 40 00:01:48,374 --> 00:01:53,146 She said, you're the most imprudent priest and diocese, that you did one. 41 00:01:53,446 --> 00:01:56,082 Yeah. If you were the most important priest in the diocese. 42 00:01:56,082 --> 00:01:58,251 So you really stir things up a lot, No. 43 00:01:58,251 --> 00:02:00,186 Not really. I, 44 00:02:00,186 --> 00:02:01,855 I guess I do, yeah. 45 00:02:01,855 --> 00:02:04,958 Yeah, I don't, okay. So intense are also. 46 00:02:05,358 --> 00:02:09,896 But, what I really what pushing like I said the last time, 47 00:02:10,230 --> 00:02:12,932 like this picture of Father Paul, he's 48 00:02:12,932 --> 00:02:16,035 in Nigeria, and, we've got 49 00:02:16,769 --> 00:02:19,539 and we're now at 600,000 50 00:02:19,539 --> 00:02:22,909 rosaries in 40 different countries all over the world. 51 00:02:23,309 --> 00:02:26,079 And Father Paul is always asking me for more. 52 00:02:26,079 --> 00:02:30,617 He goes from village to village and, gives the rosary 53 00:02:30,617 --> 00:02:32,152 and I have all kind of pictures, 54 00:02:32,152 --> 00:02:35,188 just one picture of the kids holding up the rosaries. 55 00:02:35,388 --> 00:02:36,556 And those are my rosary. 56 00:02:36,556 --> 00:02:39,893 I do think, I feel when I see a bunch of kids in Nigeria. 57 00:02:39,893 --> 00:02:44,631 After all that really touches me, I if I know you, it'd be he'd be weeping. 58 00:02:44,664 --> 00:02:46,966 Okay. Yeah, yeah, it makes me cry. 59 00:02:46,966 --> 00:02:49,769 But anyways, if you don't have any questions for me, 60 00:02:49,769 --> 00:02:50,737 we could end the program. 61 00:02:50,737 --> 00:02:53,806 But, this would be the shortest episode ever. 62 00:02:53,907 --> 00:02:56,209 You know, when you said the rosary, that really touched me. 63 00:02:56,209 --> 00:03:00,413 Because the the most beautiful woman ever in my life was my grandmother. 64 00:03:00,413 --> 00:03:04,551 And my grandmother was very quiet, 65 00:03:04,918 --> 00:03:07,754 very loving and cooked and hugged. 66 00:03:07,754 --> 00:03:09,989 And she said the rosary. 67 00:03:09,989 --> 00:03:12,992 I don't know how many times a day she would sit in her chair, 68 00:03:13,026 --> 00:03:17,063 or if she had to wait in the car for me, she would just pull out her rosaries. No. 69 00:03:17,230 --> 00:03:19,299 No problem. I'll just sit here. 70 00:03:19,299 --> 00:03:23,870 And she had a heart truly of gold without ever preaching. 71 00:03:23,870 --> 00:03:25,605 And when I left the Catholic Church. 72 00:03:25,605 --> 00:03:27,073 But you never really leave it. 73 00:03:27,073 --> 00:03:29,776 When I left and I went to the Episcopal Church 74 00:03:29,776 --> 00:03:33,179 for a lot of reasons, I thought I was going to try that. 75 00:03:33,980 --> 00:03:37,550 My mother said to me, do not tell your grandmother. 76 00:03:37,550 --> 00:03:39,886 Oh, my gosh, your grandmother will die. 77 00:03:39,886 --> 00:03:41,588 You know, if you tell her that. 78 00:03:41,588 --> 00:03:45,158 And one day she was like washing dishes in my house. 79 00:03:45,558 --> 00:03:48,561 I went over to her and I told her 80 00:03:48,728 --> 00:03:51,464 and I said that the minister was wonderful. 81 00:03:51,464 --> 00:03:55,201 And this is what he did for my family and this is why. 82 00:03:55,201 --> 00:03:58,137 And she said, I'm so happy for you. 83 00:03:58,137 --> 00:04:00,139 She said, God doesn't care. 84 00:04:00,139 --> 00:04:03,109 You know, he loves you 85 00:04:03,376 --> 00:04:06,045 and you love God, and that's all that matters. 86 00:04:06,045 --> 00:04:08,548 And I'm very, very happy. And that was it. 87 00:04:08,548 --> 00:04:11,317 I mean, I had I had a conversation about everyone was so afraid. 88 00:04:11,317 --> 00:04:15,054 It's so nice to know that we serve a God that's cheering for us and loves us, 89 00:04:15,521 --> 00:04:17,390 you know, and loves us no matter what. 90 00:04:17,390 --> 00:04:20,293 I mean, we don't deserve his grace. We don't deserve his mercy. 91 00:04:20,293 --> 00:04:23,229 But it's freely given because of his blood on the cross. 92 00:04:23,229 --> 00:04:24,897 And I've never forgotten that. Yeah. 93 00:04:24,897 --> 00:04:25,832 And he's 94 00:04:25,832 --> 00:04:29,369 he might be frustrated that people aren't turning out for him, for his mercy. 95 00:04:29,369 --> 00:04:30,470 You know, 96 00:04:30,470 --> 00:04:35,742 I always think of, what does I wonder if Jesus and Mary have a conversation, 97 00:04:35,742 --> 00:04:39,279 if they have a cup of coffee together in heaven talking about us, 98 00:04:39,646 --> 00:04:42,048 they must have a lot of things to talk about. 99 00:04:42,048 --> 00:04:45,752 But, he says I am with you always until the end of the world. 100 00:04:46,252 --> 00:04:49,255 And, I live, not I, but Christ left me. 101 00:04:49,555 --> 00:04:51,691 Why? You see how close we are? 102 00:04:51,691 --> 00:04:54,861 The God dwells in me, and he's with me for till the end of the world. 103 00:04:55,228 --> 00:04:59,365 Then when I say that when I go to a funeral, I love funerals. 104 00:04:59,365 --> 00:05:01,000 I love to bury people. 105 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,869 That's my second happen, you know, 106 00:05:03,803 --> 00:05:05,171 I hope somebody varies. 107 00:05:05,171 --> 00:05:06,139 Me. Oh, okay. 108 00:05:06,139 --> 00:05:09,108 There's no follow up question on that, but, 109 00:05:09,342 --> 00:05:10,610 no follow up. 110 00:05:10,610 --> 00:05:15,415 And, at I really they all come in wearing black like I have right now. 111 00:05:15,982 --> 00:05:17,583 I got a problem. 112 00:05:17,583 --> 00:05:23,523 I, you all dressed in black, breast in white. 113 00:05:23,723 --> 00:05:26,159 Well, who's properly dressed at this mess? 114 00:05:26,159 --> 00:05:28,928 Well, the black reminds us of the past. 115 00:05:28,928 --> 00:05:31,631 But the past is history left in God's mercy. 116 00:05:31,631 --> 00:05:34,634 The future is a mystery left in God's providence. 117 00:05:34,767 --> 00:05:37,637 But just the reality is now. 118 00:05:37,637 --> 00:05:40,039 And the reality now is God is present. 119 00:05:40,039 --> 00:05:41,441 We're here to celebrate. 120 00:05:41,441 --> 00:05:43,710 We don't call it poor mass. 121 00:05:43,710 --> 00:05:48,848 We say it's a celebration of the, of the mass as this is a celebration. 122 00:05:48,981 --> 00:05:50,283 What are we celebrating? 123 00:05:50,283 --> 00:05:52,485 Do you ever celebrate at a graduation? 124 00:05:52,485 --> 00:05:52,919 Oh, yeah. 125 00:05:52,919 --> 00:05:58,324 When my kid, I graduated eighth grade at college, we had a great celebration. 126 00:05:58,558 --> 00:06:01,160 He another words. He's gone to another. All of them. 127 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:02,261 Well, that's what death is. 128 00:06:02,261 --> 00:06:06,632 It's your final graduation to another level of eternity with God. 129 00:06:07,066 --> 00:06:08,534 And so they just look at me. 130 00:06:08,534 --> 00:06:11,003 I don't you dare die and black. 131 00:06:11,003 --> 00:06:12,705 Make sure you die in a way. 132 00:06:12,705 --> 00:06:14,006 Yeah, I agree with that. 133 00:06:14,006 --> 00:06:17,143 That there were three people were shot that day at mass, 134 00:06:18,845 --> 00:06:19,512 for a while. 135 00:06:19,512 --> 00:06:23,883 But it's funny, we look at where all born were born to die. 136 00:06:24,417 --> 00:06:25,818 All of us are going to die. 137 00:06:25,818 --> 00:06:28,755 I'm closer to the tomb than I am to the womb right now. 138 00:06:28,755 --> 00:06:30,957 Yeah, but you're closer to seeing our Heavenly Father. 139 00:06:30,957 --> 00:06:34,460 I don't know if I may have to stop off somewhere in purgatory. 140 00:06:34,761 --> 00:06:35,261 We'll see. 141 00:06:35,261 --> 00:06:38,331 You know, we going to ask you bring up something 142 00:06:38,331 --> 00:06:42,468 that I hear all the time as a therapist, I hear this. 143 00:06:43,169 --> 00:06:47,340 And people, who have lost someone, 144 00:06:47,673 --> 00:06:50,943 you know, and, and grief is normal. 145 00:06:50,943 --> 00:06:55,982 I mean, you you go, you go through that, and at times it pops up even years later. 146 00:06:56,516 --> 00:06:59,018 But I know the most 147 00:06:59,018 --> 00:07:02,388 holy people, Christian people, followers, whatever, 148 00:07:02,688 --> 00:07:08,027 who believed when it didn't happen to them 149 00:07:08,961 --> 00:07:09,662 and then when it 150 00:07:09,662 --> 00:07:13,800 happened to them, they are years into their grief 151 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:17,403 and are angry and can't get over it. 152 00:07:18,070 --> 00:07:20,406 Do you do you deal with people like that? 153 00:07:20,406 --> 00:07:23,976 And I'm wondering, like what you would say to them, drop dead? 154 00:07:24,410 --> 00:07:25,978 Yeah. 155 00:07:25,978 --> 00:07:26,846 It's okay. 156 00:07:26,846 --> 00:07:27,914 They have you. Yeah. 157 00:07:27,914 --> 00:07:30,049 You know, you got to be careful. We don't. 158 00:07:30,049 --> 00:07:34,754 We should be asking him questions, you know, Joyce, profiles, 159 00:07:35,922 --> 00:07:37,790 on a, 160 00:07:37,790 --> 00:07:38,391 a lot of people. 161 00:07:38,391 --> 00:07:41,394 I remember a nun who was very, very early, and she really. 162 00:07:41,561 --> 00:07:45,832 So sometimes, you know, passes history, are left in God's mercy. 163 00:07:46,132 --> 00:07:51,003 But many times when people are, that, my book is calling me. 164 00:07:51,070 --> 00:07:53,873 Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's for you, but I'm going to turn it off. 165 00:07:55,441 --> 00:07:56,943 The, 166 00:07:56,943 --> 00:07:59,946 when people are, 167 00:08:00,780 --> 00:08:04,083 one or very angry at the end, they may be angry at themselves 168 00:08:04,350 --> 00:08:07,220 because the past comes in front of them. 169 00:08:07,220 --> 00:08:10,189 I said, you know, the past is history left in God's mercy. 170 00:08:10,523 --> 00:08:13,259 But lots of times they've they're filled with 171 00:08:13,259 --> 00:08:16,262 so much guilt, you know, their their past. 172 00:08:16,362 --> 00:08:20,299 And like, I went to the, hospital a couple of days ago 173 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:23,503 and his friend died. 174 00:08:23,503 --> 00:08:23,970 Watch out. 175 00:08:23,970 --> 00:08:26,973 What you go into, what you say to him? 176 00:08:27,573 --> 00:08:31,110 I I've only been a priest for 66 years, and, you know, 177 00:08:31,110 --> 00:08:34,413 I've gone through a few hospitals, but he was telling you what to do. 178 00:08:35,681 --> 00:08:37,216 Don't tell him I told you so. 179 00:08:37,216 --> 00:08:41,921 I walk in, a guy looks at me, and I said, yeah, I'm just, passing by. 180 00:08:42,722 --> 00:08:43,456 I don't know who you are. 181 00:08:43,456 --> 00:08:45,558 Can I, can I say hello? 182 00:08:45,558 --> 00:08:47,793 So my time was over. I heard his confession. 183 00:08:47,793 --> 00:08:51,764 I gave him a sacrament of sick, which I'll give you before you leave. 184 00:08:52,064 --> 00:08:55,835 And I gave him Holy Communion, and he was so relieved. 185 00:08:56,302 --> 00:09:01,607 You know, when I said the last sacrament, everything happened yesterday. 186 00:09:01,741 --> 00:09:05,311 I was at a, a lunch with, a priest friend of mine. 187 00:09:05,745 --> 00:09:07,213 And the guy was a psychiatrist. 188 00:09:07,213 --> 00:09:08,814 I think he need to go to a psychiatrist. 189 00:09:08,814 --> 00:09:12,418 So after I listened to him and I met his wife, 190 00:09:12,418 --> 00:09:15,421 who's got Parkinson's disease or something, she's very sick. 191 00:09:15,755 --> 00:09:19,191 I said, well, she she should go get the sacrament of sick. 192 00:09:19,458 --> 00:09:20,459 And he panicked. 193 00:09:20,459 --> 00:09:22,895 ISIS, just looking at you, 194 00:09:22,895 --> 00:09:26,799 when you talk about the sacrament, you think of it as the last sacrament. 195 00:09:27,199 --> 00:09:30,970 But the last sacrament is not I don't if you're dying, don't call me. 196 00:09:31,103 --> 00:09:32,038 I'm not interested. 197 00:09:32,038 --> 00:09:34,040 I just want to see you when you're sick. 198 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,643 So he called you last sacrament because you have baptism, confession, 199 00:09:37,643 --> 00:09:43,249 communion, confirmation, holy orders, marriage and the sacra sick. 200 00:09:43,482 --> 00:09:45,351 It's called the last of the sacrament. 201 00:09:45,351 --> 00:09:48,220 The sacrament is not the Dutch sacrament. 202 00:09:48,220 --> 00:09:49,889 It's the last of his seven. 203 00:09:49,889 --> 00:09:54,794 So by the time I got over, he said, you're you're, My friend sent you over. 204 00:09:54,994 --> 00:09:57,863 I said, no, an angel sent me over. Father. 205 00:09:57,863 --> 00:10:00,666 You're lying, I see I am lying, your brother, your friend, that's. 206 00:10:01,734 --> 00:10:04,503 You're getting an angel spoke to them through. 207 00:10:04,503 --> 00:10:06,372 So another way, he. 208 00:10:06,372 --> 00:10:10,176 By the time I left there, his girlfriend or wife, whatever it was, 209 00:10:10,676 --> 00:10:11,677 they're all laughing. 210 00:10:11,677 --> 00:10:14,614 And my job is to have people. 211 00:10:14,614 --> 00:10:17,049 I'll leave them, I smiling. 212 00:10:17,049 --> 00:10:18,150 I got very upset. 213 00:10:18,150 --> 00:10:20,753 Although I went to the hospital a couple of weeks ago. 214 00:10:20,753 --> 00:10:22,588 I have my little card machine. 215 00:10:22,588 --> 00:10:25,558 I'm business card father and a dolly father. 216 00:10:25,558 --> 00:10:26,626 Father of Dolly. 217 00:10:26,626 --> 00:10:27,093 Good news. 218 00:10:27,093 --> 00:10:30,896 Son 86073352342. 219 00:10:31,097 --> 00:10:34,300 Just a hint A643352342. 220 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,903 So I go up to this guy and I give him my card, and he looks at it. 221 00:10:38,404 --> 00:10:38,738 He's. 222 00:10:38,738 --> 00:10:41,741 Are you still alive? 223 00:10:42,441 --> 00:10:45,111 I, I was ready to kill him. 224 00:10:45,111 --> 00:10:46,679 No, I think so. 225 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:49,281 I pinched, and and are you still. 226 00:10:49,281 --> 00:10:51,283 I'm only 93, so. 227 00:10:51,283 --> 00:10:55,688 No, but the point is, death is the graduation to 228 00:10:56,088 --> 00:10:58,791 eternal life will be fair. 229 00:10:58,791 --> 00:11:00,593 If you're going to have cert. 230 00:11:00,593 --> 00:11:03,529 I started for the first time. You're going to be afraid. 231 00:11:03,529 --> 00:11:05,431 So this is your first encounter with death. 232 00:11:05,431 --> 00:11:07,233 So fear is normal. 233 00:11:07,233 --> 00:11:10,603 But, what I like about the sacrament is sickness. 234 00:11:11,003 --> 00:11:13,439 I mean, I've seen people crumb healed. 235 00:11:13,439 --> 00:11:16,008 I've seen people with cancer healed. 236 00:11:16,008 --> 00:11:18,344 I've seen, physical miracles. 237 00:11:18,344 --> 00:11:23,015 But the biggest miracle is the spiritual one where he gets the grace to accept. 238 00:11:23,315 --> 00:11:25,651 Okay, God wants me to come. 239 00:11:25,651 --> 00:11:27,119 I'll come. 240 00:11:27,119 --> 00:11:30,289 And, that's why I emphasize to you 241 00:11:30,623 --> 00:11:35,327 when, I have mass after mass, anybody, 65 or over? 242 00:11:35,661 --> 00:11:36,562 I look at it. 243 00:11:36,562 --> 00:11:37,396 Look at these people, 244 00:11:37,396 --> 00:11:41,133 so many people that most of you look as if you're closer to the tomb than you. 245 00:11:41,133 --> 00:11:41,834 Aren't you the world? 246 00:11:41,834 --> 00:11:46,505 So you can come up because you gotta be on Social Security to get into church. 247 00:11:46,706 --> 00:11:48,340 You got to be 65 or over. 248 00:11:48,340 --> 00:11:51,510 We don't let anybody younger than 65. 249 00:11:51,711 --> 00:11:54,847 But I'll tell you, you know, Joe, you're mentioning that that age there father it 250 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:59,385 I in the church is, the church that I attend 18 to 29 year olds. 251 00:11:59,518 --> 00:11:59,819 Okay. 252 00:11:59,819 --> 00:12:03,389 Demographic is the largest growth segment in the church that I go to. 253 00:12:03,989 --> 00:12:08,060 And I know that New England is the least churched region in the country. 254 00:12:08,060 --> 00:12:10,096 Do you think that's because it's non-denominational? 255 00:12:10,096 --> 00:12:12,898 Non-denominational, but 18 to 29 year olds? 256 00:12:12,898 --> 00:12:15,234 And we're finding that a lot of young men, 257 00:12:15,234 --> 00:12:18,771 especially, are coming now to Jesus more now than ever. 258 00:12:19,338 --> 00:12:21,841 Yeah, that did they say they're waking. 259 00:12:21,841 --> 00:12:24,710 They're getting over the, the, vaping 260 00:12:24,710 --> 00:12:27,713 or the marijuana and and that's not satisfying. 261 00:12:27,847 --> 00:12:30,516 And people today, they're hungry to look inside. 262 00:12:30,516 --> 00:12:31,784 They're hungry for the word. Yeah. 263 00:12:31,784 --> 00:12:33,953 They're they don't know what they're hungry for. 264 00:12:33,953 --> 00:12:36,956 You know, like you say what you want, I don't know what I want. 265 00:12:37,189 --> 00:12:38,524 And they don't know what they want. 266 00:12:38,524 --> 00:12:40,226 They don't don't realize that they want God. 267 00:12:40,226 --> 00:12:41,494 They want Jesus. 268 00:12:41,494 --> 00:12:44,363 And but, there is a turnaround. 269 00:12:44,363 --> 00:12:47,366 But my problem is people are having kids are having dogs. 270 00:12:47,700 --> 00:12:50,669 You know, when you walk down the street, I do a lot of traveling. 271 00:12:50,669 --> 00:12:51,237 I have a gun. 272 00:12:51,237 --> 00:12:53,606 I shoot dogs along the way. Yes. 273 00:12:53,606 --> 00:12:54,673 Don't even say that. 274 00:12:56,108 --> 00:12:57,510 I shoot him with love. 275 00:12:57,510 --> 00:12:58,711 Shoot him with love. 276 00:12:58,711 --> 00:13:01,947 Yes, but that's because it's so expensive now. 277 00:13:02,114 --> 00:13:04,750 It's so expensive to raise a family. 278 00:13:04,750 --> 00:13:05,351 Oh, yeah. 279 00:13:05,351 --> 00:13:08,354 I'm showing you, have I? 280 00:13:08,354 --> 00:13:09,488 I had to think. 281 00:13:09,488 --> 00:13:14,059 I know I have two, but I also raised my grandson, so I consider three. 282 00:13:14,059 --> 00:13:17,029 Well, how did you afford to do that? 283 00:13:17,363 --> 00:13:20,966 At times it has not been easy. 284 00:13:21,534 --> 00:13:23,502 Well, it's supposed to be easy. 285 00:13:23,502 --> 00:13:28,741 No, but if you're if you're thinking of college and all that, it's, Yeah, 286 00:13:28,808 --> 00:13:32,478 I think people are thinking more about that. 287 00:13:32,511 --> 00:13:37,383 They're also thinking, do I want to bring them into this world the way it is? 288 00:13:37,449 --> 00:13:39,351 Could I play the violin for you? Not right now. 289 00:13:39,351 --> 00:13:42,688 All right, well, let me give you an example. I. 290 00:13:42,955 --> 00:13:47,526 I was helping out at, a church of a priest 291 00:13:47,526 --> 00:13:50,062 when I vacation, and it's my hometown. 292 00:13:50,062 --> 00:13:52,131 So there's a park, Stanley Park. 293 00:13:52,131 --> 00:13:54,967 So it it's five, eight, 5/8 of a mile. 294 00:13:54,967 --> 00:13:56,735 I used to run it all the time. 295 00:13:56,735 --> 00:13:57,937 So I'm walking right here. 296 00:13:57,937 --> 00:14:00,339 Beautiful young lady walking with a dog. 297 00:14:00,339 --> 00:14:03,175 I see a good looking young man walking with a dog. 298 00:14:03,175 --> 00:14:06,111 I see another beautiful lady walking out with a dog. 299 00:14:06,111 --> 00:14:08,214 I see another man walking my dog there. 300 00:14:08,214 --> 00:14:10,449 I see a muslim family walking with three kids. 301 00:14:11,784 --> 00:14:13,619 And, why is it that they 302 00:14:13,619 --> 00:14:18,057 could afford to have the three kids while the others cannot afford. 303 00:14:18,991 --> 00:14:21,260 It depends if you want to. What? 304 00:14:21,260 --> 00:14:24,730 I we didn't have a television when I was a kid, or we got radio. 305 00:14:25,097 --> 00:14:27,333 We were hot dogs and hamburgers. 306 00:14:27,333 --> 00:14:31,270 You know, with the way we were brought up, my father never made more than $7,000. 307 00:14:31,570 --> 00:14:32,571 But I still banks. 308 00:14:32,571 --> 00:14:36,709 I got more money to add to the fabric, but no, he and he made it. 309 00:14:36,876 --> 00:14:38,010 My brother went to college. 310 00:14:38,010 --> 00:14:40,279 I went to college. My sister went to college. 311 00:14:40,279 --> 00:14:44,283 And my mother never made, She made solid $65 a week. 312 00:14:44,617 --> 00:14:46,352 My father never made seven. 313 00:14:46,352 --> 00:14:49,455 But somehow we scraped and he took loans. 314 00:14:49,455 --> 00:14:51,590 And so it's your priorities. 315 00:14:51,590 --> 00:14:56,095 I'll tell you what I'll take up to you for everyone. 316 00:14:56,328 --> 00:14:59,865 I'll give you a dollar for everyone who are watching this movie 317 00:15:00,099 --> 00:15:01,700 and calls you up that they call. 318 00:15:01,700 --> 00:15:06,005 I'll give you a dollar for every one who calls you and says, I watch this program. 319 00:15:06,005 --> 00:15:07,673 But then I turned it off when I saw him. 320 00:15:10,743 --> 00:15:11,510 So I guess I've, you know, 321 00:15:11,510 --> 00:15:14,513 episodes rated right. 322 00:15:15,681 --> 00:15:17,483 I'm making a point somewhere along the line. 323 00:15:17,483 --> 00:15:18,784 I'll fight it somewhere. 324 00:15:18,784 --> 00:15:21,453 But how do you spell busy? 325 00:15:21,453 --> 00:15:24,590 A give anybody watching watching this program. 326 00:15:24,890 --> 00:15:26,492 I'll give you $100. 327 00:15:26,492 --> 00:15:29,495 If you could tell me what spell. Busy. 328 00:15:29,628 --> 00:15:30,829 And what does it mean? 329 00:15:30,829 --> 00:15:33,499 How do you spell busy? 330 00:15:33,499 --> 00:15:35,334 Well, I know how you spell busy. 331 00:15:35,334 --> 00:15:37,903 Oh, tell me how you spell busy. I want to make sure. To who? 332 00:15:37,903 --> 00:15:40,272 Yeah, a lot of people can't read here. Right? 333 00:15:40,272 --> 00:15:41,507 So big. 334 00:15:41,507 --> 00:15:42,074 Yeah. 335 00:15:42,074 --> 00:15:45,077 You s why? 336 00:15:45,544 --> 00:15:48,080 If I actually give you the answer, don't you keep quiet. 337 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,249 Well, what does b u s y? 338 00:15:50,249 --> 00:15:52,318 I mean, 339 00:15:52,318 --> 00:15:54,753 the what does it mean? 340 00:15:54,753 --> 00:15:57,890 The under Satan's yoke? 341 00:15:57,923 --> 00:16:00,926 Oh, yes. I've heard that they. 342 00:16:00,993 --> 00:16:03,362 When people feel like I don't have any time to prayer. 343 00:16:03,362 --> 00:16:04,330 That's it for a prayer. 344 00:16:04,330 --> 00:16:06,799 That's exactly what it is I tell you to. 345 00:16:06,799 --> 00:16:08,400 It's a matter of priorities. 346 00:16:10,536 --> 00:16:12,037 Don't show this to anybody, okay? 347 00:16:12,037 --> 00:16:12,237 Just. 348 00:16:12,237 --> 00:16:16,041 Just between you and me, I was talking to one of the bishops. 349 00:16:16,241 --> 00:16:17,042 I said I. 350 00:16:17,042 --> 00:16:20,279 Archbishop, I put on 65 shows 351 00:16:20,746 --> 00:16:23,716 a Augustan Tolton, Saint Teresa. 352 00:16:23,716 --> 00:16:26,719 Say, Faustina, Maximilian Colby. 353 00:16:27,453 --> 00:16:28,320 Others. Yes. 354 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:31,223 You pay for the production of these beautiful plays. 355 00:16:31,223 --> 00:16:33,759 Yeah. It cost $4,000 a piece. Yeah. 356 00:16:33,759 --> 00:16:35,094 Cost me almost a quarter of money. 357 00:16:35,094 --> 00:16:36,695 This is over a few years. 358 00:16:36,695 --> 00:16:39,498 So I said to the Archbishop, well, 359 00:16:39,498 --> 00:16:42,134 he says, I'm busy. 360 00:16:42,134 --> 00:16:43,769 And I said, you're a bishop. 361 00:16:43,769 --> 00:16:45,871 Do you know I spell busy? What do you mean? 362 00:16:45,871 --> 00:16:47,539 Why do you spare us? Why? 363 00:16:47,539 --> 00:16:49,441 What does it mean? 364 00:16:49,441 --> 00:16:50,976 The under Satan's your. 365 00:16:50,976 --> 00:16:52,578 I'm not your priority. 366 00:16:52,578 --> 00:16:54,279 That's what you're saying. I'm. 367 00:16:54,279 --> 00:16:56,415 Everything else is. You're busy. 368 00:16:56,415 --> 00:16:57,783 Everything else is. You're. 369 00:16:57,783 --> 00:16:58,784 We're all busy. 370 00:16:58,784 --> 00:17:01,520 You're busy and you're putting up with me forever. That's your 371 00:17:02,588 --> 00:17:03,188 biases. 372 00:17:03,188 --> 00:17:04,289 That's your. 373 00:17:04,289 --> 00:17:05,724 It's your priority. 374 00:17:05,724 --> 00:17:08,060 What are you. You're too busy. 375 00:17:08,060 --> 00:17:08,694 What do you pray? 376 00:17:08,694 --> 00:17:10,763 You're too busy to go to church? 377 00:17:10,763 --> 00:17:12,264 Because I'm playing soccer on Sunday. 378 00:17:12,264 --> 00:17:16,635 You know, too busy to take my kids up because I'm working two jobs. 379 00:17:16,969 --> 00:17:18,404 I'm too busy. 380 00:17:18,404 --> 00:17:21,407 Is your excuse for not doing something? 381 00:17:22,875 --> 00:17:26,011 Your business is your priority, and that's your priority. 382 00:17:26,011 --> 00:17:28,680 And I'm not your priority. He showed up at the next show. 383 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:31,250 Well, that's a really good point, because it's like with tithing, 384 00:17:31,250 --> 00:17:33,986 you know, and and I, and I take that seriously 385 00:17:33,986 --> 00:17:37,990 to the first part of my day goes to God when I wake up each and every morning 386 00:17:38,090 --> 00:17:41,593 when choice and I talk about that, I spend time with God. 387 00:17:41,593 --> 00:17:43,462 Yeah. And, spend time in gratitude. 388 00:17:43,462 --> 00:17:44,963 I make time for him, 389 00:17:44,963 --> 00:17:48,000 and I ask him to put people in my path every day that I can be good to each 390 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:48,801 and every day. 391 00:17:48,801 --> 00:17:54,139 And I spend time with spirit, mind and body with God and show him priorities. 392 00:17:54,473 --> 00:17:55,340 So right. 393 00:17:55,340 --> 00:17:58,343 We could have a nice car, we could have the best TV. 394 00:17:58,744 --> 00:18:01,480 We could drive vacations. 395 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:03,449 I remember one, Valerie's father. 396 00:18:03,449 --> 00:18:05,451 I can't afford to pay the Catholic. 397 00:18:05,451 --> 00:18:09,121 Catholic, tuition, so I felt sorry for him. 398 00:18:09,321 --> 00:18:10,923 Then I find out he's got infinity. 399 00:18:10,923 --> 00:18:12,858 And it was going down to where his kids are. 400 00:18:12,858 --> 00:18:16,195 Down to Florida, to Disneyland. 401 00:18:16,595 --> 00:18:18,063 It's now your priorities. 402 00:18:18,063 --> 00:18:20,866 Yeah. And if, how do you. What? What? 403 00:18:20,866 --> 00:18:23,902 Is there a gentler way of saying this, to people? 404 00:18:23,902 --> 00:18:27,673 Because my priority is my family is number one. 405 00:18:27,739 --> 00:18:28,040 Yeah. 406 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,110 And then comes my work for my ain't for income. 407 00:18:31,176 --> 00:18:31,376 Yeah. 408 00:18:31,376 --> 00:18:36,115 So when a friend would call and say, you know, we gotta go out and have dinner, 409 00:18:37,015 --> 00:18:39,551 it's hard to say. 410 00:18:39,551 --> 00:18:41,620 You're not my priority right now. 411 00:18:41,620 --> 00:18:43,489 It sounds kinder to say. 412 00:18:43,489 --> 00:18:46,091 My life is very full right now. Yeah, right. 413 00:18:46,091 --> 00:18:48,193 Yeah. So you could say I hate you, too, 414 00:18:49,461 --> 00:18:50,863 but I don't. 415 00:18:50,863 --> 00:18:54,233 I know, I know, you say I, I can't afford it. 416 00:18:54,233 --> 00:18:55,634 You know what? 417 00:18:55,634 --> 00:18:58,203 It's not. I can't afford it. It's like I can't. 418 00:18:58,203 --> 00:18:59,938 There's always so much time in a day. 419 00:18:59,938 --> 00:19:01,106 I can't afford the times. 420 00:19:01,106 --> 00:19:03,542 I don't just say, yeah, yeah, not fine actually. 421 00:19:03,542 --> 00:19:04,676 Yeah, but I do love them. 422 00:19:04,676 --> 00:19:06,812 I would love to see so many people. 423 00:19:06,812 --> 00:19:09,815 I always say, how could I say no less? 424 00:19:10,249 --> 00:19:12,050 But a lot of you don't I? 425 00:19:12,050 --> 00:19:16,722 At 93, I have to look for what my name is and make sure I am a father. 426 00:19:16,722 --> 00:19:17,890 Do you remember me? 427 00:19:17,890 --> 00:19:19,458 How could I? 428 00:19:19,458 --> 00:19:21,627 How could I ever forget? 429 00:19:21,627 --> 00:19:21,894 But I. 430 00:19:21,894 --> 00:19:25,097 But I also, you know, I really believe that God is the source anyway. 431 00:19:25,097 --> 00:19:26,598 And everything else is a resource. 432 00:19:26,598 --> 00:19:28,433 I believe that God is the source. 433 00:19:28,433 --> 00:19:32,604 So if I seek first the kingdom of God, everything else will come into play. 434 00:19:32,604 --> 00:19:34,673 As far as resources, the right people, 435 00:19:34,673 --> 00:19:37,075 my my livelihood doesn't depend on my income. 436 00:19:37,075 --> 00:19:39,478 It doesn't mean and my job depends on God. 437 00:19:39,478 --> 00:19:42,447 I work under him. He's my employer. I really believe that. 438 00:19:42,447 --> 00:19:45,918 And he wouldn't provide the vision without the provision. 439 00:19:46,518 --> 00:19:48,320 And I sincerely believe that. 440 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:49,388 Father, I want to. 441 00:19:49,388 --> 00:19:54,259 Going back to my example, 38% of French is, Muslim. 442 00:19:54,259 --> 00:19:57,663 Now, if you go into a restaurant, it's a muslim waiting for you. 443 00:19:58,130 --> 00:20:02,267 Like one Muslim said very wisely, we're not going to defeat you with armaments. 444 00:20:02,267 --> 00:20:04,803 We're going to defeat you with our population. 445 00:20:04,803 --> 00:20:08,140 Right now, the, the population isn't 446 00:20:08,540 --> 00:20:12,344 increasing is decreasing, but, Muslim population. 447 00:20:12,611 --> 00:20:15,414 So I say in 100 years, Europe is going to be Muslim, 448 00:20:15,414 --> 00:20:18,417 like North Africa is much less, and, 449 00:20:18,450 --> 00:20:21,954 because their priority is family, you know? 450 00:20:21,954 --> 00:20:23,889 So doesn't God love the Muslims? 451 00:20:23,889 --> 00:20:25,624 Oh, yeah. Absolutely. 452 00:20:25,624 --> 00:20:27,726 God loves every he die for everybody. Right. 453 00:20:27,726 --> 00:20:31,630 So my point is the world that we're saving 454 00:20:31,930 --> 00:20:35,133 isn't isn't Christianity as it was 455 00:20:36,101 --> 00:20:37,803 Europe used to be Christian. 456 00:20:37,803 --> 00:20:39,438 But no, no it's not. 457 00:20:39,438 --> 00:20:43,575 The world has lost the value and the priority of Christ. 458 00:20:43,675 --> 00:20:45,477 Grace is not number one there. 459 00:20:45,477 --> 00:20:49,548 But, God loves everybody, and I know how it's going to turn out. 460 00:20:50,249 --> 00:20:53,385 I just it's going to be God's time, not my time. 461 00:20:53,719 --> 00:20:56,121 I know the world will be one with Christ at the end. 462 00:20:56,121 --> 00:20:59,324 There's no question in my mind I don't believe it, I know it, 463 00:20:59,758 --> 00:21:01,827 and if I didn't, I wouldn't be talking to you right now. 464 00:21:01,827 --> 00:21:04,229 I'd be playing golf somewhere here. So. 465 00:21:04,229 --> 00:21:05,497 But because I believe 466 00:21:05,497 --> 00:21:09,201 I know how it's going to end up, and I love my, my favorite prayer. 467 00:21:09,501 --> 00:21:11,470 And you, Lord, is my hope. 468 00:21:11,470 --> 00:21:13,438 And I shall never hope in vain. 469 00:21:13,438 --> 00:21:15,007 Because God is my hope. 470 00:21:15,007 --> 00:21:17,976 I never hope my my favorite like is Proverbs. 471 00:21:17,976 --> 00:21:21,380 I love you know, trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean 472 00:21:21,380 --> 00:21:24,516 not into my own understanding, my own understanding, 473 00:21:24,650 --> 00:21:27,986 and all thy ways acknowledge you, and you will direct my past. 474 00:21:28,220 --> 00:21:29,354 Yeah, I love that. 475 00:21:29,354 --> 00:21:31,323 And also the prayer of Jabez. 476 00:21:31,323 --> 00:21:33,425 You know, bless me, father, in deed. 477 00:21:33,425 --> 00:21:35,093 Enlarge my territory. 478 00:21:35,093 --> 00:21:40,766 I expand my influence, you know, take my hand to keep me away from all evil. 479 00:21:41,133 --> 00:21:43,602 So I may cause no pain. 480 00:21:43,602 --> 00:21:44,903 And I love that. 481 00:21:44,903 --> 00:21:47,673 And I've said each and every morning, every night before I go to bed. 482 00:21:47,673 --> 00:21:51,677 But the proverbs I love and yeah, just over and over again. 483 00:21:51,743 --> 00:21:53,111 He keeps me on track. 484 00:21:53,111 --> 00:21:53,845 You know he is. 485 00:21:53,845 --> 00:21:56,348 You send me things and it's like just what I need. 486 00:21:56,348 --> 00:21:57,049 I just think about, 487 00:21:57,049 --> 00:22:00,919 you know, God watching this podcast for I know Joyce and Father Ed and say, 488 00:22:00,919 --> 00:22:02,387 God, they're bragging on me. 489 00:22:02,387 --> 00:22:05,190 The angels going back and saying, these folks are bragging on me. 490 00:22:05,190 --> 00:22:06,491 They love you, God. 491 00:22:06,491 --> 00:22:06,858 You know? 492 00:22:06,858 --> 00:22:09,161 And I just think about every time I get together with family 493 00:22:09,161 --> 00:22:13,498 and friends and talk about God, I love bragging on God wherever I go. 494 00:22:13,632 --> 00:22:13,965 Yeah. 495 00:22:15,167 --> 00:22:16,268 You have any other questions? 496 00:22:16,268 --> 00:22:18,337 We got 30.5 minutes. 497 00:22:18,337 --> 00:22:22,074 I want to know, when did you decide know 498 00:22:22,074 --> 00:22:25,077 that you wanted to be a priest? 499 00:22:25,911 --> 00:22:28,914 When I, when I was younger, 500 00:22:29,681 --> 00:22:32,684 we had no Catholic high school in New Britain. 501 00:22:32,751 --> 00:22:35,921 We had no East Catholic and North West Catholic South. 502 00:22:35,921 --> 00:22:39,524 We had no Saint Thomas Aquinas in, New Britain. 503 00:22:39,825 --> 00:22:42,894 So if you wanted a Catholic education, you got to the seminary. 504 00:22:42,894 --> 00:22:44,596 You could get a Catholic education. 505 00:22:44,596 --> 00:22:48,734 I had 670 classmates that got out of high school. 506 00:22:48,934 --> 00:22:51,937 Only seven of them went on to study. 507 00:22:52,404 --> 00:22:54,106 And of those seven, just a handful. 508 00:22:54,106 --> 00:22:55,307 I became a priest. 509 00:22:55,307 --> 00:22:58,310 So we didn't get to go there to be priest. 510 00:22:58,477 --> 00:23:01,046 We went there to get a Catholic education. 511 00:23:01,046 --> 00:23:02,814 But when I got there, 512 00:23:02,814 --> 00:23:06,618 I, I played all this sport basketball, baseball and everything else. 513 00:23:06,618 --> 00:23:12,190 I wasn't good, but it's good enough to be a waterboy and a little more. 514 00:23:12,624 --> 00:23:16,928 But, when I was 19, I decided I wanted to get married. 515 00:23:17,329 --> 00:23:21,466 I told, told my confessor ashes. 516 00:23:21,833 --> 00:23:25,103 Father, I think I want to get married. 517 00:23:25,637 --> 00:23:28,640 I like girls, he said that's normal. 518 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:30,609 So what's your other problem? 519 00:23:30,609 --> 00:23:31,910 But I like girls. 520 00:23:31,910 --> 00:23:33,912 I said, that's normal. What's your other problem? 521 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:36,848 He said, why don't you finish college? 522 00:23:36,848 --> 00:23:38,850 I was a second year of college. 523 00:23:38,850 --> 00:23:40,352 And you said, why should finish college? 524 00:23:40,352 --> 00:23:43,588 So I went to, got, to, 525 00:23:44,456 --> 00:23:49,227 Saint Bernard's in Rochester for to my, philosophy courses. 526 00:23:49,227 --> 00:23:53,598 And then I, I, finished that and for some reason, 527 00:23:54,299 --> 00:23:58,670 they, they want me to go to a good Catholic university. 528 00:23:58,670 --> 00:24:01,139 That's where smart kids came when I was playing. 529 00:24:01,139 --> 00:24:04,509 I had to quit tennis because I was flunking chemistry. 530 00:24:05,210 --> 00:24:08,180 After a few years of, our nation, 531 00:24:08,313 --> 00:24:10,849 the Chris father, Daley, who was a chemistry teacher. 532 00:24:10,849 --> 00:24:13,185 Eddie, you weren't the brightest light in the class. 533 00:24:13,185 --> 00:24:16,021 So some, we went to Catholic. 534 00:24:16,021 --> 00:24:19,024 You and I took, they told me to become, 535 00:24:19,057 --> 00:24:22,060 get a masters in, American history. 536 00:24:22,294 --> 00:24:25,096 So I took a course in historical method. 537 00:24:25,096 --> 00:24:29,000 I flunked, I was consistent, I used to fly all the time, 538 00:24:30,335 --> 00:24:31,870 so I, I flunked. 539 00:24:31,870 --> 00:24:34,873 Did I, I said, I, I better go to summer school. 540 00:24:35,006 --> 00:24:37,676 So I walk into class and a guy like. Preacher. 541 00:24:37,676 --> 00:24:40,579 What are you doing here? You flunked me. 542 00:24:40,579 --> 00:24:42,848 And I said, you get out of here. 543 00:24:42,848 --> 00:24:45,851 So he threw me out and gave me a B, and I went to summer. 544 00:24:45,917 --> 00:24:49,888 Wow. I went to summer school, and I was the first kid 545 00:24:49,888 --> 00:24:53,658 in a class to get a masters of all applied because I had to go to summer school. 546 00:24:54,025 --> 00:24:57,128 So I heard a very spiritual advice. 547 00:24:58,163 --> 00:25:00,966 Every kick in the ass is a step forward. 548 00:25:00,966 --> 00:25:02,801 You don't go back when you get kicked. 549 00:25:02,801 --> 00:25:08,006 Every kick that I've got, everyone at that time was terrible. 550 00:25:08,006 --> 00:25:11,009 I cried sometimes, just some of the things that I went through, 551 00:25:11,009 --> 00:25:13,612 and I cried my eyes out. 552 00:25:13,612 --> 00:25:16,748 But looking back, that kick was a step for it. 553 00:25:16,748 --> 00:25:21,786 And I think I think if you look at life that way, the the problems 554 00:25:21,786 --> 00:25:27,459 that you have there going to be a, a way of, of stepping forward, 555 00:25:29,361 --> 00:25:31,429 whether it's sickness, whether the financial, 556 00:25:31,429 --> 00:25:34,733 whether it's family, whatever it is, whatever the problem may 557 00:25:34,733 --> 00:25:37,903 be, it's a step or a step forward. 558 00:25:37,903 --> 00:25:39,471 I know, Joyce, we say this all the time. 559 00:25:39,471 --> 00:25:40,138 Nobody say, wait, 560 00:25:40,138 --> 00:25:43,808 you say the comeback is always bigger and better than the setback? 561 00:25:43,909 --> 00:25:44,276 Yeah. 562 00:25:44,276 --> 00:25:47,045 Every setback is really a set up for something better in life. 563 00:25:47,045 --> 00:25:49,114 Because you grow during adversity. 564 00:25:49,114 --> 00:25:50,515 And when you're kicked down 565 00:25:50,515 --> 00:25:53,985 and some of somebody, somebody else says, if you fall, fall forward. 566 00:25:54,152 --> 00:25:55,420 Yeah, yeah. Right. 567 00:25:55,420 --> 00:26:00,058 So it really does open up the opportunity makes it easier if you know that. 568 00:26:00,225 --> 00:26:03,228 So if you get fired from a job or whatever, say 569 00:26:03,428 --> 00:26:05,263 I wonder what else is coming up. 570 00:26:05,263 --> 00:26:07,432 Something great must be cleaned up. 571 00:26:07,432 --> 00:26:11,836 And keep your eyes and ears open for maybe a set of closing down 572 00:26:12,237 --> 00:26:15,073 and being depressed or getting drunk. 573 00:26:15,073 --> 00:26:17,776 Whatever things are, certain things are here for a season. 574 00:26:17,776 --> 00:26:20,145 Rejoice. Yeah, yeah, for a season. 575 00:26:20,145 --> 00:26:22,280 And that's what we want right here for a season. 576 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,316 Yeah. Okay. You got 3.5 minutes left. 577 00:26:24,316 --> 00:26:25,016 Where do you go from here? 578 00:26:25,016 --> 00:26:27,986 Say, there's a stopwatch over here. 579 00:26:27,986 --> 00:26:29,154 You know what I love about you? 580 00:26:29,154 --> 00:26:32,891 I love how much you love Jesus and how much you love Mary. 581 00:26:33,325 --> 00:26:36,861 And I think there's always been a misconception about Mary. 582 00:26:36,861 --> 00:26:40,065 I remember just briefly, I'll tell this quickly when I moved 583 00:26:40,065 --> 00:26:43,368 to, North Carolina, Winston-Salem, 2003, 584 00:26:43,802 --> 00:26:47,973 and I went to the doctors, and the nurse there was from Canada, 585 00:26:48,340 --> 00:26:51,343 and we just started to talk about, our lives. 586 00:26:51,610 --> 00:26:53,211 And she said to me, 587 00:26:53,211 --> 00:26:56,648 oh, dear God, don't tell anyone, you hear that you are Catholic. 588 00:26:56,648 --> 00:26:57,949 And he said, why? 589 00:26:57,949 --> 00:27:00,619 She said, Because I'm Catholic, came from Canada, 590 00:27:00,619 --> 00:27:04,456 and she thinks we're all a cult because we pray, 591 00:27:04,456 --> 00:27:08,093 we we talk to Mary or we, we we like the saints. 592 00:27:08,460 --> 00:27:12,897 And she said, and the evangelicals just don't understand that 593 00:27:13,231 --> 00:27:15,333 Jesus is the one priority. 594 00:27:15,333 --> 00:27:18,403 But we also respect and honor. 595 00:27:18,536 --> 00:27:23,241 I learned a long time if I want to get to my father, I always went to my mother. 596 00:27:23,508 --> 00:27:25,210 She would intercede for me. 597 00:27:25,210 --> 00:27:28,179 And if we want to get to Jesus, go to hell. 598 00:27:28,179 --> 00:27:29,614 Yeah, go to Mary. 599 00:27:29,614 --> 00:27:32,517 But you don't have to go to Mary first. 600 00:27:32,517 --> 00:27:34,019 Or do you always go to Mary first? 601 00:27:34,019 --> 00:27:35,253 Oh, no, I don't. 602 00:27:35,253 --> 00:27:37,055 It turns out I have to mass. 603 00:27:37,055 --> 00:27:39,691 I sit there for an hour or so, fall asleep. 604 00:27:39,691 --> 00:27:44,362 That's where I get my desk after, unless the phone rings and Kate wakes me up. 605 00:27:44,629 --> 00:27:47,198 No, I talk to my room. 606 00:27:47,198 --> 00:27:49,834 I have pictures of Jesus. I have pictures of Mary. 607 00:27:49,834 --> 00:27:51,703 See your car? Yes. 608 00:27:51,703 --> 00:27:54,472 And the emphasis is on Jesus. Yeah. 609 00:27:54,472 --> 00:27:58,243 And you get an easy way to get to Jesus is through Mary. 610 00:27:58,510 --> 00:28:01,479 An easy way for me to get to my dad was to my mother. 611 00:28:01,479 --> 00:28:04,115 It's a natural in a just a natural tendency 612 00:28:04,115 --> 00:28:06,985 of going to your mother to get to get to your father. 613 00:28:06,985 --> 00:28:10,388 So going to Mary, you're not, adoring her. 614 00:28:10,388 --> 00:28:12,490 It's not a cult. Right? 615 00:28:12,490 --> 00:28:15,293 Jesus went to Mary all his life. Yeah. 616 00:28:15,293 --> 00:28:19,164 Your whole life you went to Mary, and, She was taking it to heaven. 617 00:28:19,431 --> 00:28:20,598 So we don't. 618 00:28:20,598 --> 00:28:22,901 We don't treat her as a god. That's a cult. 619 00:28:22,901 --> 00:28:27,038 Yeah, a lot of people I remember there's a guy I debated. He. 620 00:28:27,138 --> 00:28:30,141 He called himself, Jesus, you know, 621 00:28:30,208 --> 00:28:33,311 and he had a complete cult there, and totally fine. 622 00:28:33,311 --> 00:28:35,313 And I went, I radio with him, and it's. 623 00:28:35,313 --> 00:28:37,716 This guy's a phony. And he was eventually, 624 00:28:38,850 --> 00:28:40,251 this isn't a cult to marry. 625 00:28:40,251 --> 00:28:41,052 This is love. 626 00:28:41,052 --> 00:28:43,021 It's a love for the mother of God. 627 00:28:43,021 --> 00:28:45,557 Yeah. To love Mary is to love God. 628 00:28:45,557 --> 00:28:46,224 Love Jesus. 629 00:28:46,224 --> 00:28:48,793 So it has nothing to do with a cult. 630 00:28:48,793 --> 00:28:53,398 But, when you, when you pray, like yesterday, I was really frustrated. 631 00:28:53,698 --> 00:28:54,599 I must be getting up. 632 00:28:54,599 --> 00:28:56,367 I couldn't find my phone, 633 00:28:56,367 --> 00:29:00,472 and I says to Saint Anthony, if I don't follow Saint Anthony. 634 00:29:00,772 --> 00:29:01,506 Anthony the. 635 00:29:01,506 --> 00:29:03,007 The saint who helps you find things. 636 00:29:03,007 --> 00:29:05,210 Yes, it's it's in my book. Yeah. Yes. 637 00:29:05,210 --> 00:29:08,413 I said, Saint Anthony, if you don't come through it. 638 00:29:08,413 --> 00:29:11,950 This was 10:00 at night, and I think the devil was there 639 00:29:11,950 --> 00:29:15,053 because I was doing supper, but I was downstairs. 640 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,823 I went over to Mike and I said, Saint Anthony, if you don't come through, 641 00:29:19,457 --> 00:29:21,159 that's the last time I ever talked to you. 642 00:29:21,159 --> 00:29:23,962 I don't I don't talk nice to saints. I tell him what to do. 643 00:29:24,963 --> 00:29:26,831 And I'm sitting there 644 00:29:26,831 --> 00:29:30,301 and I look up and there's my phone right in front of me. 645 00:29:30,301 --> 00:29:31,736 Where the heck did that come from? 646 00:29:31,736 --> 00:29:35,807 I had a similar situation, and my son came in and said, yeah, 647 00:29:35,807 --> 00:29:37,375 I was looking for something for a long time. 648 00:29:37,375 --> 00:29:41,880 And he said, aren't you supposed to pray to like, I think it's Saint Anthony? 649 00:29:42,147 --> 00:29:44,682 And I said, oh my gosh, I forgot. 650 00:29:44,682 --> 00:29:49,988 I did, and he left the house and I called him and I said, you'll 651 00:29:49,988 --> 00:29:51,422 never guess what. 652 00:29:51,422 --> 00:29:55,393 I bent down and there it was, in a place I looked 20 times. 653 00:29:55,393 --> 00:29:58,096 And so did you. There it is. Yeah. 654 00:29:58,096 --> 00:30:00,565 So there's something to be said for that, because most people, 655 00:30:00,565 --> 00:30:02,934 when they lose something, they're saying something else. Oh, yeah. 656 00:30:02,934 --> 00:30:05,470 And I'm guilty of that as time soon all right. 657 00:30:05,470 --> 00:30:07,338 And it's like father, I repent. 658 00:30:07,338 --> 00:30:10,041 Yeah I wish people when they have children, 659 00:30:10,041 --> 00:30:13,011 don't call them Rose or call Hector. 660 00:30:13,011 --> 00:30:16,648 I call them Rose or, or Tigers. 661 00:30:16,881 --> 00:30:22,453 Call them a saints name and, have your child imitate that saint. 662 00:30:22,554 --> 00:30:23,588 But they don't do that. 663 00:30:23,588 --> 00:30:27,192 Well, see, with your plays that you put on, they get to know the saints 664 00:30:27,525 --> 00:30:32,297 and a really deep, you know, a personal way about their lives. 665 00:30:32,630 --> 00:30:34,732 Your beautiful, beautiful father. 666 00:30:34,732 --> 00:30:35,967 Thank you so much. 667 00:30:35,967 --> 00:30:38,002 Thank you for being with us today. 668 00:30:38,002 --> 00:30:40,171 Give the audience a bless you with love, loving father. 669 00:30:40,171 --> 00:30:40,638 Thank you. 670 00:30:40,638 --> 00:30:42,207 May God the Father bless you. 671 00:30:42,207 --> 00:30:44,175 May God the Son heal you. 672 00:30:44,175 --> 00:30:46,578 May God the Holy Spirit strengthen you. 673 00:30:46,578 --> 00:30:49,080 May Joseph marry to seek for you and all his saints. 674 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,584 Pray for you and your whole family and our country and neighbor, father, 675 00:30:52,851 --> 00:30:55,253 son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. 676 00:30:55,253 --> 00:30:56,721 Thank you father. Thank you so much. 677 00:30:56,721 --> 00:30:58,723 And by the way, if you ever get thrown in jail again, 678 00:30:58,723 --> 00:31:01,025 you can reach out to Joyce so she'll take care of your bail. 679 00:31:01,025 --> 00:31:03,995 A bail bond that's about. 680 00:31:03,995 --> 00:31:05,697 She's told me where to go for a long time. 681 00:31:05,697 --> 00:31:07,899 Yeah, I've been told where to go many, many times. 682 00:31:07,899 --> 00:31:09,500 My wife listening right now. Watch. 683 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:11,803 Thank you so much for another rollicking edition 684 00:31:11,803 --> 00:31:13,037 of What's Good with John and Joyce. 685 00:31:13,037 --> 00:31:14,973 Available in all streaming platforms. 686 00:31:14,973 --> 00:31:16,040 I'm John Cadillac Seville 687 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,143 from iHeart radio with my dear friend Joyce Logan is a blast. 688 00:31:19,143 --> 00:31:21,746 We'd like to thank everybody behind the scenes, Stefania 689 00:31:21,746 --> 00:31:23,514 and David here at Direct Line. 690 00:31:23,514 --> 00:31:26,517 We appreciate them as well because, you know, without them we don't have a show. 691 00:31:26,718 --> 00:31:29,187 And Father Ed, thank you so much for everything you do. 692 00:31:29,187 --> 00:31:31,189 We love you, but most importantly, the world loves you. 693 00:31:31,189 --> 00:31:33,291 And thank you so much. God bless both of you. 694 00:31:33,291 --> 00:31:34,259 I bless you as well, sir.