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March 27, 2021 67 mins

Deacon Tim and Father Linh sat down to talk about the end of Lent and the beginning of Holy Week, the Year of St. Joseph, Anti-Asian Bias in the US, and so much more.  It was a good discussion and even without Deacon Dallas, we think you will enjoy the discussion. 

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Unknown (00:10):
Did you ever stop and think? Why spend too much time
getting ready?
I don't know a single thing thatI haven't noticed.
Thenwhen I see you my heart starts
racing, but I don't know if thelength is Jason

(00:39):
it's the same for my headsetshaken.
This time, this

Tim Stout (00:50):
Hey, today's March 12 2020. It's not March 12. What
is it? March 26. March 26. Igotta make my notes better. It's
the fifth week of Lent, not thethird week of Lent. And you are
tuned into deacons, discussionsand drinks.

Unknown (01:09):
I don't know what I could say. To to hang around.
So much.
When I see my heart startsracing, if the length is

(01:36):
brown, it's the same for myhands start shaking.

Tim Stout (01:47):
Hey, good evening, everybody. Welcome back to the
cardones Studio last Friday andlit hard to believe is in it.
It's crazy. went by fast.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (01:58):
But very fast.

Tim Stout (01:59):
Of course my what are some people would argue when I
say it's the last Friday and letme tell what about Good Friday.
That's the tritium not lit. Bythe way, I'm Deacon Tim Stout.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (02:12):
I'm fatherly.
Dallas.

Tim Stout (02:17):
He's a missing interaction. Yeah, he's

Fr. Linh Nguyen (02:19):
you must have given him a lot of tough topic
that he freaked out. He

Tim Stout (02:23):
I think that's what you know. That's ironic. You say
that I thought that. I wasn'tsure. Maybe he saw the topics
and he didn't want to. He didn'twant to talk about it. Which is
fine, because we can talk abouthim without him. So why he
didn't bring the beard. And hedidn't and he didn't bring any
beer. That's not good. So we gotno beer. Just the two of us last

(02:46):
week. Last Friday and lit andyou know Fridays and let me

Fr. Linh Nguyen (02:54):
no meat

Tim Stout (02:55):
no meat and fish fries right last fish fry just
is concluded. kind of slow lastcouple of weeks but it was good
to have fish fries and good havea lot of people out here card.
Oh, you know it's I think wewere as a speaking now as a
nightclub as we were pleasantlysurprised that how well things

(03:16):
went here.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (03:17):
I think so.
Today was a crazy day. It was alot of going on out here calm.
Beside fish fry. We have shownchildren at school and I know
they did do the Passion Playhere. They did a passion they
will they're practicing. Nextweek. That's next week, Friday.

Tim Stout (03:35):
Cut some trees now.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (03:36):
Oh, a lot of tree come down stumps grinding
up. possibilities. Transactiontake play with a senior center
in us and no other conversationis taking place. So it's a lot
of excitement. So

Tim Stout (03:53):
if you want to run a stump grinder come out this
weekend. Is that what you'resaying?

Fr. Linh Nguyen (03:58):
Oh, yeah, hey, start today already, it is
grinding. And then we tried tofix up some of the beliefs. So
the fence the rock fence needsto be fixed up a little bit.
There's a lot going on.

Tim Stout (04:15):
And next week when the fire department helping

Fr. Linh Nguyen (04:18):
tear down one of the buildings right here
down, they use that as theirtraining facility. And so by
doing that, they help tear itout. So when that didn't come
down, and we'd be paying for thenew module to come in, and we
have to fix some of the room uphere and building three to
accommodate a sixth gradeclassroom while they have

(04:39):
classes. So all these require alot of coordination time
precisely. What Ian what outright after the spring break for
the kids with is the Easterweek. Then the modular will
arrive. Okay, right. No, no thatwill be Building would tear down

(05:01):
with a fire department. And thenthe building the the new module
will arrive right after schoolended with is May the 24th. And
they start Reus assemble all ofthat in a few months that we
have to make sure the perfectschool year.

Tim Stout (05:18):
Exciting. hectic crazy. So who's who's earning
their money right now is TerryWard superstar?

Fr. Linh Nguyen (05:28):
No, but I do appreciate the team that we have
you are part of that. And itjust phenomenal there's a lot of
decision to be made right. And alot of tour men conversation
like today with a few with withBobby Renae and brand tried to
with Rebecca and Nick tried toposition you know, all the

(05:51):
contact information of peoplefrom belong to our parents. And
interesting look through thelist. And they say well, I
haven't seen this people ages,you're assuming that long ago?

Tim Stout (06:04):
Well, it's been a long, it's been a year.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (06:06):
It's been a year, yeah, who's in who's out
and you know, make sure all theinformation in place and then
look through the list. And wehave members that has been been
migrated move somewhere else andis still on the pair's list, so
I have to get all that out away.
And then we have to coordinate,we have a lot of Hispanic slots
number. So we have to containthat. to delegate a, somebody

(06:30):
can speak Spanish to talk tothem about the project. I've
worked with Steve right nowactually the video that we made,
and we have to convert that intoSpanish, so people can watch it
and understand. So there's a lotof, you know, coordination of
all of that. So legit. Like Isay, I appreciate the team that
we have the passion, theenthusiasm, you know, all of

(06:53):
that is a lot of work going intoit. And no, I

Tim Stout (06:58):
mean it, but it's challenging. It's exciting. I
mean, keeping track of theparish rolls, in normal
situations. In the middle of aglobal pandemic, it's hard
anyway. Because there's a lot ofpeople move around and, you
know, move from one parish toanother for whatever for a
variety of reasons, you know,moving jobs, etc, schools. But

(07:19):
in the middle of a plantpandemic, it's even more
difficult.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (07:22):
But the hope for me is that we have a brand
new team of a parishioner, about20 of them, they will take the
leadership of calling everyparishioner and ask them are You
doing okay? And begin to do somelevel of personal contact with
them? And like I say, we wedon't know what will be the

(07:44):
answer that we reply back to us.
But this is perhaps is the pointof connection that we only way
that we achieved that. So eatparishioner, the volunteers that
we have, we contact up to almost30 plus people family.

Tim Stout (07:59):
To me, that's that's incredible.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (08:01):
A lot of commitment. So it is very
exciting time it's a time boundconsumer, I just came back from
Texas, you know. And you know,when you down there and you
really on zoom call up heretalking and dealing with issues
dilemma matter. And you know,and then same time, I still got

(08:22):
some good time spent with momand dad, they crazy down there
as well.

Tim Stout (08:26):
I mean, what there was only you know, five or six
church meetings a week now. Yougot two free days. I mean, what
what are you complaining about?

Fr. Linh Nguyen (08:33):
No, it is still it's it's amazing how, despite
over the COVID itself, but westill managed to stay very
active. Right? Like, like thiswonderful show that we are doing
right now. It's extremelyengaging. And and you know, it
takes a lot of time consuming itbeyond any way to just sit down

(08:54):
and do it. You have to plan youhave technology set in you make
sure live stream with prepare,you have to make sure the topic
is current. Make sure that thatyou know, thing. truly engaged
while people Yeah, that's it.
You just don't walk in, sit downand make it happen. That's for
sure. Yeah, and even evenSundays like that, right?

Tim Stout (09:13):
I mean, you know, Steven, I laugh about it,
because it seems like every dayis a challenge. I got here a
couple hours early today, andthe internet didn't work. It
took me two hours to get theinternet up and talking on the
phone with Steve Burton and justgetting things done but it is
challenging, but it's also forme, you know, it's it's God I

(09:34):
think God calls us in differentways in a pandemic, right? We
have to we have to hear how he'scalling us. And you know, for me
it's been kind of a transitionfrom just being admin finance.
To more what I kind of see forme this this and and the shift
this Sunday masses, livestreaming things, is more about
evangelization and pullingpeople, not new necessarily new

(09:57):
people, but current and activeAssisting parishioners, we got
to call them home. Because, youknow, there's, there's gonna be
there's lots of studies outthere. There's, there's a lot of
people that won't come back.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (10:11):
Exactly.

Tim Stout (10:12):
And you know, to me, we've got to love this approach
with just calling. You know,getting new people involved
calling and saying, Hey, what'sgoing on? How are you doing?

Fr. Linh Nguyen (10:23):
Exactly? It's not about the building, right?
We building relationship. But Iwant to throw a pitch to you
guys. Last Sunday. You know, Iwas on the other side receiving
the live stream. Here we go,Steve,

Tim Stout (10:37):
nobody's gonna say,

Fr. Linh Nguyen (10:38):
Oh, yeah, I think I observed other places.
We are the best. I dare say thatwith a confident

Tim Stout (10:47):
we had an internet issue last week.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (10:49):
But he's still it went perfectly. It's a little
stagnated. But it's still thephotogenic of individual. The
work that goes into it. I know.
You know, every time a static Ican see Deacon Tim Stout get
panic. People need a scene. I'vebeen in theater before, right?
You know, where every time onthe screen you see a black out
or you see a glitch? You know,there's some foul language and

(11:11):
you're behind the seat. I don'tknow, Steve, I don't know about
foul language. But there's somuch work on to it, you know,
people call, you know, email mesimply as your way, you know,
when we get back on the road,you know, doing short, I said,
The truth is, when all thissubsided, we love to, you know,
the amount of work that go,every mass is form full, right?

(11:32):
More than walk in vast and havea mass with this require a lot
of coin every Sunday day in dayout. When we do this for a year.

Tim Stout (11:47):
I'm looking forward to being on this walk in best
best thing. You know, it'sfunny, you know, we're gonna
talk about holy week here in asecond. But you know, for me,
I'm really looking forward toEaster Vigil. Just to be back in
the church. I mean, I knowyou're in the church to the
course of the week for weekdaymass and you do kid's Master,

(12:08):
you alternate between here andthere. But you know, that one,
the one Sunday, I guess therewas two Sundays, where we
canceled because of the weatherhere. And we went there just
live streamed only. It it it isdifferent.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (12:23):
It's very different. Right. But different
because now, you know, I have tobring Steve in to do live
stream, you know, people fromthe other side from the screen,
that not seeing our church,there is light their camera is
like in the middle of the thesanctuary. Yeah, we're gonna
work on that mentioned about thelevel of reverence is become

(12:45):
less, right. So we have tomaintain all of that information
recategorize about theseimportant about the ritual? Even
you know, when we go back intothe main of the chapel, the
church that we celebrate, youknow, during this time, there's
something weird about it, right?
We all sign very far. There's noserver, there's no you know,
everything's so minimal.

Tim Stout (13:09):
Even at school mass, you'd have no servers, no
server.
Yeah, I think to me, it'ssomething you know, I've
mentioned a few times on theshow here. The, the non, the
lack of being, I mean, I knowthat people are responding, but
the lack of being able to hearthat is that effectively, you
know, I told Steve, when westarted as we need to get one of
those big parabolic microphonesthat we can sit out there and

(13:33):
and blow it back to us the soundback to so we can hear the
people. Because I mean, there'snothing like being in a crowded
church and hearing people prayhere and people seeing it. I
mean, it's part of the worshiphere, you know, it gets you
closer to God,

Fr. Linh Nguyen (13:45):
that is that is unique about when the church or
communal prayer. That's it,there is the reciprocal
response. You know, I hearmyself You say The Lord be with
you. And then I hear myself say,And with your spirit, but to say
that it can be on the behalf ofthe people that unable to be

(14:05):
here with us. I have to respondto that. It's like, I did the
whole mass basically, by myself.
It just so well, that's, youknow,

Tim Stout (14:14):
finally Carlos didn't do that. Yeah,

Unknown (14:15):
right. He couldn't hear anything.

Tim Stout (14:17):
And you know, it's kind of like when we were we're
talking about the passion andthe passion coming up for Holy
Week for Palm Sunday and thenagain on Good Friday, you know,
the voice the voice wouldtypically be away sorry, the
crowd would be the crowd. Andthe crowd is good to be people
in the music room. Yeah. Sopeople can hear so yeah, that

(14:37):
means we take them with take alot of things for granted. I
think you know, that the thetritium for me last year was
when it all kind of the wheelsall fell off. Right. And we were
learning what to do and we had Iwas talking to Steve because you
know, one of the challenges forto livestream the Easter Vigil
is gonna be dark outside. SoSteve does didn't have enough

(15:00):
lights to light up outsideinside at the same time so we
got we had to figure that outbut if you remember last year we
were out there with an iphoneupon rene was there up on the
porch come on out and we gotthis little fire here and we
broadcast and we we toldeverybody okay we're gonna stop
the broadcast we're gonna switchto a different camera so we

(15:22):
ended the broadcast and westarted up again and you know
we're we're much better thanthat and hopefully we're able to
have a better sense of reverenceand have let me because easter
vigils i mean it's importantit's important important part of
of church life let's go aheadand talk about that we'll work a
little bit backwards oh eastervigil how many how many

(15:44):
candidates and do we have anycatechumens

Fr. Linh Nguyen (15:47):
no we have no catechumen we might have
categories with hispaniccommunity it color i've been
talking to the set about thecoordination of that but from
the english we have twocandidates really strong
candidates one gentleman both amilitary one i did a wedding for

(16:09):
him and some hughes conversionhe went to him back he fly a
party i believe great great totwo wonderful gentlemen we have
and then we have few youngconservation that the family
that was with us is leaving andthey in compromising class so

(16:31):
they want go ahead and receiveconfirmation before they leave
our parish from the hispanic wehave about six or seven
potential in working within anhour we meet with them sunday to
make sure everything is in placeor not or to wait or not so so
we will have a

Tim Stout (16:48):
pretty full church that

Fr. Linh Nguyen (16:49):
pretty cool just a family alone and the
cantor and the readers we shouldhave a full capacity hopefully
you know within the maintainabout 35 ish people that we
should allow to be in it

Tim Stout (17:03):
you know so let's let's start with just talking a
little bit about hollowaysundays kicks off holy week with
with palm sunday steve says it'sgonna rain i don't think he's
thinking

Fr. Linh Nguyen (17:18):
it'd be rain right because that's part of the
blessing we have the blessedpalm right we do have the
blessed so we have to bring palmoil so it's it's wonderful right
it's why we begin with palmsunday is the triumphant jesus
enter into jerusalem to face hisdeath that is the beginning of

(17:38):
his offering sacrifice ofhimself totally to the eternal
father and so how important isto enter with great calamity of
that celebration and then we wewe are sure into the holy week
itself right with greatdiligence calamity anticipation
but the big big one of course atrue idiom that we celebrate
with the holy thursday actuallytuesday though we have a crazy

(18:05):
mess right with the whole messwith oil with the bishop

Tim Stout (18:09):
are you going i'm going did you rsvp

Fr. Linh Nguyen (18:11):
yes i did i don't want to get in trouble

Tim Stout (18:13):
wow wow rsvp no i just i wanted to you know i
wanted to make sure somebodyelse had a shot you know because
they're they're not everybodythat wanted to go probably is
not going to get to go at leaston the deacon side i don't know
the precise i guess

Fr. Linh Nguyen (18:29):
what the british say is yeah it's a those
who can go should go and thosewho at age have not been
vaccinated encouraged not to gookay

Tim Stout (18:40):
right right so i gave my my seat up this to somebody
else

Fr. Linh Nguyen (18:44):
so kobe interesting like i say it's it's
a step up i get improvementsince COVID right because the
last holy oil man we know we cango

Tim Stout (18:58):
down celebrated but

Fr. Linh Nguyen (18:59):
yeah himself by himself that's it and and so
this one actually opened up alittle bit so you know we do
actually see a glimpse of goodlight and that mass is so
important right absolutely thegreat oil that we receive that
we send the oil we all sell weprocess bring to our community
all holy thursday and of coursethis holy thursday going to be

(19:23):
unique because no footwashing

Tim Stout (19:26):
right that's the restriction that's the
restriction

Fr. Linh Nguyen (19:28):
oh feet wide open for anybody and so that can
be another strange reality wouldhave on face but at least we
have some other part that can besignificant in that but we
hopefully we have a beautifuleucharist procession at the end
of mass right when we move ajesus a to a reserve tabernacle

(19:52):
that we have some time to ourdual assume that the he already
die and went into the tomb to bepebble good friday

Tim Stout (19:59):
and that's going to I've been here accardo and the
procession is going to be fromthe front of Cardo to the what
used to be called the the theparish hall now

Fr. Linh Nguyen (20:09):
Harris Hall is a is that what do you call that
place

Tim Stout (20:14):
no longer is something to do with the school
right? Not the new school butthe sister school.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (20:20):
Yeah, I used to call it the dream Playhouse.
Last I remember some Well,

Tim Stout (20:27):
we're getting in trouble for not knowing the name
of it.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (20:29):
So, the idea is that the we have to be careful
in this procession to right sothe Blessed Sacrament represent
to the entrance and there willbe an altar there a temporary
altar when we do a lot ofReverend incense singing right
there. And after that thetabernacle out the buzzer,
Sakhalin real transfer, insidethe above the parish hall, there

(20:54):
will be a temporary tabernaclesitting there. And people can
sign up to our door Jesus until11 o'clock before we close out.
Okay. And then we move to GoodFriday, right? And Good Friday,
we'll be out here to the onlything I want to push. We do this
year, like in the past, unlikelast year, we can so that there

(21:16):
will be a community Good Fridayservice can be at the David's
campground. So whether we areservice right there for the
entire Scott County to bringcoming over, bring the chair,
bring a lawn chair, bring anumbrella if it's rain, but what
day is it? It's on Good Friday,at noon can be a short prayer

(21:37):
for, you know, Scott County,Georgetown community, all
churches come together for that.
But for our self, we will have alive station of the cross right
at 530 begins at the UCO inright can be live presentation.
So if folks have nobodyexperience is very wonderful is

(21:59):
host by the Hispanic community.
In that tradition, lifestationacross is a big thing.

Tim Stout (22:08):
So two years ago, was the first time I wait to say
they've done it for a few years.
But they process from thecourthouse up to the church, the
church. So this Friday, we willprocess from Yuko who know over
to the front of the Journal ofcarto.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (22:27):
So there will be combination of English and
Spanish language that will beeach station there will be kind
of a commentary of that stationin English. And the Hispanic,
Spanish language will carry therest of the story. We see Jesus
carried the cross there will bescreaming and yelling, you're
all the live presentation ofthis beautiful station, of

(22:49):
course had taken place. One ofthe things that struck me

Tim Stout (22:54):
the last time this happened with on Main Street was
people in their cars stoppingyes to see what was going on. I
mean, we won't get that here.
But you know, it's still a very,very powerful, emotional, not
ritual but remembrance of what'sgoing on. But

Fr. Linh Nguyen (23:15):
I think it's beautiful. I think for this time
we kind of not public side forthe public, but more we want our
parishioner it's not a Hispanicthing, right, is for Francis and
john for most to come out to usthis wonderful opportunity to
journey literally journey withChrist to the tomb. You know,

(23:36):
that's how he have done for us.
And so we are invited of GoodFriday to participate in that
until we make our way to thefront and then we have a ritual
celebration of Good Friday rightafter that.

Tim Stout (23:46):
So 530 starts the procession

Fr. Linh Nguyen (23:49):
yes all right.

Tim Stout (23:51):
530 Thursday that's mass without the footwashing are
hoping it doesn't rain have awill have incense. We have an
added sense of an insight thatyou go somebody get father a
rock on the line who haveincense, which will be good.
We'll have incense Thursday, noinstance Friday. Right, right.

(24:15):
Passion veneration across talkabout how that that's gonna be a
little bit different, right?

Fr. Linh Nguyen (24:22):
Yeah, because the the the like I said is the
social distraction restriction.
So we are not going to kiss thecross ourselves each person, but
we have a gesture of reverence,either genuflect or bow to the
cross as we approach record eachpersonally. And so that can be a
way to to pay a reverence to thecross that Jesus himself was

(24:44):
hung on. That would be thatpart.

Tim Stout (24:49):
Are we are we gonna process upward with the cross?
Yes, we will. I heard that thebig cross was missing in action.
We might actually have to use alittle one

Fr. Linh Nguyen (24:59):
know what the big cause is? been found trust
me and deacon tim cook johnmadigan john doe i think it'd be
nice i think with this kind ofcelebration being outdoor it
bring about the magnitude iremember when i i was in a villa

(25:19):
the coochie on on the street ofof jerusalem and walk in the
station or cross of jesusremember he was on that same
track right and the market wasthere the people was there and
you walk in the midst of all ofthat and you saw a little piece

(25:40):
of rock and said the fifthstation the third station and
you stayed and you pray togetherin small groups you talk about
the children but out here ithink the same way you're in the
midst of the outdoor that's whatstation or cross meant to be

Tim Stout (25:55):
no and it should the weather looks like it's gonna be
good friday if you know if youcan be good on the forecast as
far out i'm hoping that it isbecause that's that's the
longest kind of outdoordifferent for mass obviously so
there's some procession you knowthere's the cross it'll be there
it'll be a lot different thanthan then a mass epically so i'm

(26:15):
hoping that that will be goodweather and i'm hoping sunday
will be good weather this sundaymight be a little bit of rain
might be a little bit rain butwe're used to that easter sunday
i'm hoping that there will besun

Fr. Linh Nguyen (26:28):
yes it will be something yes and good for
everything and it's sundaydefinitely we we like to say
this year we're gonna pushforward with of course
consciously of social distantand all that we could do a
cotton the youth theconfirmation class is we'll have
a you know a cotton oh we findright i mean outdoor right after

(26:52):
10 o'clock math and after 12o'clock spanish math there will
be a con for the children sothere's to delve into event
after eat celebration socompared to last year there was
nothing right nothing

Tim Stout (27:05):
zero zilch

Fr. Linh Nguyen (27:06):
and this year somehow in many way we can still
very much managing totallyrespect the cdc and requirement
but we still have to manage wayto celebrate i hope people is
not forgotten about last yearthere was nothing

Tim Stout (27:23):
so this even with distancing even being outside

Fr. Linh Nguyen (27:27):
is something but something something big you
know something great and weintend to do that

Tim Stout (27:34):
i mean i'm excited about it and i hope you know all
of our parishioners are excitedabout it and if you've been away
if you've been only watching onlive stream you know we're
probably not gonna live streamsteve and i were talking about
this before we probably won't belive streaming thursday and
friday even though he says wemight be able to do it thursday
friday we will be saturday andwe will be sunday you can

(27:58):
obviously join that way but ifyou can't come out the card oh

Fr. Linh Nguyen (28:03):
i think so i will push this coming sunday i
will talk on via facebook andeverybody else really want
everyone you know even if youhave already been vaccinated
come out if you you feel youknow a little bit unsafe trust
in god and come out because iguarantee you how safe we've

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been doing this and extremelysafe in every matter we can and
none of us really take thisthing for lie or under
estimating either politicalmatter or not is about the
requirements etc and we complyto that and we have done
extremely well and so i reallyencourage everybody to have a

(28:44):
leap of faith and courage tocome out celebrate easter
together as a community you knowyeah

Tim Stout (28:51):
you know i think a lot of people are can be set in
their ways and and i'm okay withthat you know how you know you
know i've talked about it youknow there's a lot of people out
there that have a difference ofopinion it's not unlike the
political world right now whereeverybody has a position you
know the church sits in themiddle of racks and even in a

(29:14):
case where we talk about youknow social distancing whatever
position you whatever yourthoughts are on it social
distancing word a mask all thosethings the church sits in the
middle and what we want peopleto be safe right but we also
we're not we're not like a nondenominational christian church
or baptist church or were thecatholic church and it it does

(29:40):
does mean something different inperson what we're witnessing and
what we're a part of in easteris the best time to come back

Fr. Linh Nguyen (29:47):
but today i have a piece of news two places
one in new york i believe therestriction still maintain less
and the the the gjorde have topass the law to say no they are
essential Please like everybodywho maintain 40 plus percent,
the church, you're allowed tohave 40 plus percent. Okay. And
in Philippine, and the Presidentwas tried to restrict more, and

(30:10):
we will push back, I saw that I

Tim Stout (30:12):
saw the pushback.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (30:13):
It was there now.

Tim Stout (30:16):
Yeah. But there are some places in this country that
the churches are still nothaving church.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (30:21):
Well, yes, sir.

Tim Stout (30:22):
You know, so,

Fr. Linh Nguyen (30:24):
you know, right now,

Unknown (30:25):
you know, how

Fr. Linh Nguyen (30:25):
fortunate we are to have a place like this,
because there was a minister,actually, mala point. He asked
about it, did anybody have anoutdoor service, that he can
participate as a sunriseservice, and they have not able
to have such celebration. Andthat, in many of our brothers
and sister Protestant church isvery struggle, because you can

(30:48):
live stream so long, but youhave to be encountered in
person, you know? And so for us,yes. is not the best right? Now.
It's not okay. But it is what itis, right? At least we have a
chance to to interact, face toface, or even the social

(31:11):
distance, you can see someonesitting next to you, you know,
even in a lawn chair, right.
It's still a lot of opportunity.
So that's fun. What

Tim Stout (31:22):
do you say that that encounter one of the things, you
know, you you give out communionon the, on the handicapped,
right side and in the choir andstuff, and, and I usually give
out communion right in thecenter. And whenever I finish, I
always walk to the back, even ifI don't think I'm needed back
there, I walk to the back, justso I can see people. Because

(31:43):
it's been so long since I'veseen so many, you know, people
who I consider friends. I justwant to see him.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (31:49):
Exactly.

Tim Stout (31:50):
I just want to have that two second encounter, I
want to have that encounter,

Fr. Linh Nguyen (31:54):
you know that, you know, I met a few people
there, I check in with them. Andthey say, Father, you know that
I was at the courtroom at everymass for over a year. And I have
never seen them.

Tim Stout (32:11):
Agree. Yeah.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (32:11):
And it's just devastating. It's, it's, you
know, for me, I think the pointfor us as ministers is very
important for us to have thosethings in conversation. We great
perspective. So when we reengage again, would we know we
will? How do we preach aboutthose important perspective? You

(32:32):
know, bring it to light?

Tim Stout (32:34):
I think it's important. It's, you know,
before we went on the air, I wastelling, I got to see my mom
today. Oh, good. Good story. Youknow, first time I've seen her,
she was at the hospital. So Igot to see her for a brief
period of time. But really,today was the first time I got
to go see her sit down with heris only for 30 minutes. And, you

(32:56):
know, here's a woman who's beenin her assisted living facility
for a year. And the only peopleshe's really interacting with it
in person are her caregivers.
And which is to just to nurse ina in a nurse assistant CNA. And
the one thing she wants to tellme when I get there is how

(33:18):
blessed she is. You know how Godhas blessed her and I'm sitting
there and I'm thinking all theway over there. I'm thinking
about, you know, how crazy thisis how upset I am that I can't
just go get her bring her home,or I can't go visit her anytime
I want to. And then I thinkabout, you know, I'm thinking
I'm thinking about Holy Week,and I'm thinking about how crazy
that's gonna be and howeverything's been taken away.

(33:41):
changed, modified. And it's, andit's a pain and how frustrated I
am. And I walk into my mom who'sreally had everything taken
away. And she talks about howbless us

Fr. Linh Nguyen (33:56):
slap in the face. Yes.

Tim Stout (33:59):
Well, it, it's it's humbling.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (34:01):
It's very humbling. Yeah.

Tim Stout (34:03):
But, you know, I think it's a lesson for all of
us that no matter how bad or howmuch we disagree, we still have
our faith. And that God Godgives us doesn't give us more
than we can handle. You know,we've heard that said a lot. But
he's also accompany us on thisjourney. And as long as we keep

(34:26):
our faith, and we don't lose ourfaith, we don't walk away. We
don't turn our backs on God. Youcan turn your back on, on me or
you because you don't likesomething we said or we did or
whatever. But don't turn yourback on God.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (34:41):
Exactly. You know, in the midst of all this
great pandemic of God have tobring up the year St. Joseph,
right. The head we celebratethat fellow right now. And it's
amazing. And Steve gets out ofit. You know how Pope Francis,
use him in the midst of all thiscrap. and one thing about joseph

(35:02):
is one faithful you know hedrank a lot but extremely
faithful guys we don't know muchabout him except his
faithfulness you know outside ofthat is there anything more than
that but faithfulness to god andand then for me as i think with

(35:23):
him started praying with him andand think about this holy week
and it's about the essentialisn't it about that faithfulness
we are asking to look at the godthat will do anything for you
not the way you want it rightbut the very eternal destination

(35:45):
of your life promise you knowwipe away every burden of your
sinfulness as long as you seekin that mercy of that god i mean
you know

Tim Stout (35:55):
what a story of faith you know i mean he we talk a lot
about mary's yes but you knowjoseph had a yes in there too
yeah and you know something washappening to mary right she she
knew it he had a dream that hehad to believe it right and it's
me i mean it's just you know ilike to when i reflect on these

(36:16):
things i like to try to putmyself in the position and
understand you know where peoplewhere he was what it was like in
his culture and it was a bigstep for him i mean and i think
i don't think we can fullyappreciate that there's a couple
books out there that i thinkcannot put one in the show notes

(36:38):
that kind of do justice to thewhat was going on in joseph's
life and for him to say yeahokay i'm gonna i'm with you mary
i'm going to be with you youknow obviously there's there's
god's involved in that and soyou know it's not just joseph by
himself it's this is the samething with us right it's this

(36:59):
this relationship he joseph's inrelationship with god he by
saying yes

Fr. Linh Nguyen (37:04):
that's what you have to be you have to be you
know like i say for me there'sso many theologian people write
about it because god is notsomething that you have and you
grab onto it and you call it aday right it's quite a deeper
relationship for joseph is as acentral you know like yesterday
we celebrate with you yesterdayannunciation right yeah you know

(37:25):
for me for her to respond tothat and she was in deep
enticement you know with god forher to respond to that i
listened to npr not npr relevantradio and this press was talking
about the word maybe don't be acountry word but the actual

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inland is not maybe the may itwill be done to me in other
words he or she is completelytotal feared accepting what will
be the future okay and so for uswe often want it now and one
future who knows but i want itnow right but for joseph and her

(38:07):
classic example and they they dothey accepted what will be the
future for them and that becomethe story of bromance with god

Tim Stout (38:19):
okay relationship

Fr. Linh Nguyen (38:21):
relationship is eternal and so and one thing
with this Coronavirus did to uswhat it takes away that
relationship just like you youknow saw your mom for the first
time like in a year and youraise it yeah and you expect
everything and for her to be tofeel the blessedness of god and

(38:45):
that mean the woman in somecapacity she in great connection
with god than we do right

Tim Stout (38:53):
absolutely i mean to me it's it's a it's a testament
to her faith you know it's notmy mom's not somebody that that
i think growing up we went tochurch every sunday we were very
active in church but i neverheard her really talk about
being blessed growing up or talkabout her relationship with god
she she demonstrated it throughher her actions you know and to

(39:15):
hear her in her you know she'sin her 70s still relatively
young but her her body's not butto hear her talk about her
relationship at this time in herlife when you know her body is
breaking down and i see so manythings that i feel like are
going against her but she talksabout how blessed she is you

(39:37):
have to have a deep faith and wetoday in today's world we
encounter well i've encounteredi'm sure you encounter people
that that have no faith itdoesn't mean that they're bad
people but when when life dealsyou death of a loved one young
close or even even a pandemic ina way that that throws you in

(40:02):
isolation i think that's one ofthe reasons we see such crazy
stuff going on in our society somuch depression right so much
suicide because people don'thave a place to turn they just
they feel alone

Fr. Linh Nguyen (40:18):
well a few months ago there was a study
came out over the way the pewstudy i believe that those who
do in this time a pandemic areregularly attending to church or
see live much more differentperspective very positive and
hopeful and those who not isthat interesting no it's not
it's reality right and it isbacking up to everything that we

(40:44):
are doing i we've been blessedlike mom said of what god has
given us that deep intimaterelationship despite we
recognize a nod but as long asyou hang on to it you know then
it will manifest but

Tim Stout (41:01):
it's kinda like for me it's my mom's teaching me a
lesson another lesson in law inlife but it's how you look at
things right i mean if you lookat something and you look for
the negative which is what iwhen i'm thinking about what
what she's experienced i focuson the negative because i'm a
fixer right right i want to fixstuff and i can't fix it it's

(41:25):
totally outside of my controlit's not anything that i could
ever possibly do and so notbeing able to fix it i get
frustrated and it just you knowit's it's hard in this culture
today it's hard to accept thosethings right we want we want
things our way right and we lookwhen we're not able to control

(41:47):
things we look at things and welook at how bad they are because
they're out of our control andwe can't fix them or we can't go
to church you know saturday atfive o'clock we can't do that
anymore and we get frustratedbecause of that and if we look
for the negative things if welook for those things we will
find them they are all around usbut if we look to the goodness

(42:11):
of god we look to the love thathe's just pouring out to us we
find goodness but it so manypeople in today's world so many
people in our culture don't wantto look for those things and i
think that i mean ironically ithink that stems from politics
to be honest with you i thinkthat you know this saw something

(42:31):
this week that talked aboutactually was a documentary i was
watching a documentary on billyeilish do you know who she is
she's a singer and you know hermom was talking about how
teammate hurt her music issometimes said to be kind of
depressing and her mom wastalking about that there's a lot
of teenagers that are depressedand and she said you know this

(42:54):
generation gets a bad rapbecause people say oh just
they're soft they don't haveanything to be depressed about
but then when you think aboutthat i'm not talking about
relationship with god justtalking about in culture in
general you think about apandemic you think about the
political environment you thinkabout what people think about
the environment itself you knowwhether we're destroying it or
not whether whether you believeor not that's what that that's

(43:17):
what they're hearing right andyou just roll up all the stuff
in our lives and they're inisolation and they're not going
to school and they're not seeingtheir friends and they're not
having prompts or not playingsports it's pretty easy to be
depressed

Fr. Linh Nguyen (43:31):
that's nothing but depression right and so hope

Tim Stout (43:34):
and if you don't have hope if you don't have faith
what do you have

Fr. Linh Nguyen (43:43):
yourself and it's so true it is so true

Tim Stout (43:51):
but you were talking about st joseph i guess he
proclaimed that at the end oflast year right it his apostolic
exhortation actually i do havethat here it's called petrus
core day i say that right with afather's heart it's it's
available online at thevatican's website i'm sure you
can google search that and finda pdf great source of

(44:14):
information on on what popefrancis is calling us to for
this for this year another goodsource i heard held this
magazine up earlier this is fromthe knights of columbus this is
the columbia magazine everythingyou want to know about st joseph
is in this magazine everythingthere's a lot of information in
here and it gives couple prayershow many prayers do you think

(44:36):
there are different prayers tost joseph

Fr. Linh Nguyen (44:39):
that's way too many with fascinate me what are
the big ideas when texas wastried to find out how many pray
there are and they haven'tstopped so i'm about to contact
the city of st joseph with renthe nursing home a dream for
sale taylor manor and i'll callthem and say could you identify
all this prayer

Tim Stout (45:00):
This one's a pretty good one. This was a short one.
I know. James Drummond, who Iknow listen to everyone's Well,
he he's wanted us to change theprayer to St. Joseph,
historically that we've prayed.
Because I think at the end, itjust talks about a happy death.
Right?

Unknown (45:14):
Yeah.

Tim Stout (45:15):
We call it like, it's about that, James. It's about
happy that this one doesn't saythat. We are in we are we did
start this parish, St. Josephthis past Sunday. So we're going
to continue that. You know, wekind of get out of practice
because of COVID and differentthings. So wonderful. We are
republishing that so people canpray along with us. I think most

(45:37):
of

Fr. Linh Nguyen (45:37):
people remembered as people comment
how, how wonderful that webrought it back, and how much
they missed it.

Tim Stout (45:45):
And it's true. It's, it's when you take something
away is when you really find outhow much you missed it or how
much that means to you. It'sjust like when we have when we
don't use the the vocationprayer, or the prayer to say,
Michael at the beginning ofmass, if somebody forgets to do
it or started or whateverhappens. It's like, man, I miss,
I miss, I miss that. I missthat. So you just got back from

(46:12):
Texas, say mom and dad. And inthe past couple weeks, there
were a couple shootings and oneof those was considered anti
Asian episode. I'd be interestedto see what's your take on that?

Fr. Linh Nguyen (46:29):
Oh, don't get us started with that. In my
family right now, there'scompensation in regarding to
this particular we call itpropaganda campaign. From the
leftists Are they really, Agentdiscrimination? Yeah, perhaps
they'll have cases. But they getto the point it becomes so

(46:51):
escalated. You know, forexample, in a typical statistic,
you look at it very clear fromin California, for example, last
year alone, I think was 131cases. Okay, compared to the
whole state of compared toothers issues, those, you know,
it very minimal, not 131

Tim Stout (47:13):
shootings

Fr. Linh Nguyen (47:14):
night, just some type of complain or say it
had to do with some type of hateper se, but not in the crime of
shooting per se. So now hasbecome very interesting to that
point. Like, my sister justtexted me to say Guess what, you
know, I have to friend AfricanAmerican really concerned for

(47:36):
her to attack her. Are you okay?
Europe, we are fine. You know,everything has become a
political agenda. I think it'sgone too far. To the point that,
like everything else,

Tim Stout (47:57):
I mean, are the racist in this country?

Fr. Linh Nguyen (47:59):
Yes. But it's not to the point that, you know,
to hinder a great nation, youknow, a great nation that stand
behind every possibility todefend the integrity human
right, who who is the bestcountry taught by human rights?
America? Let's get the factsstraight. Okay. Who is the best

(48:20):
country dealing with povertyissues? America.

Tim Stout (48:25):
Okay, we don't. And we just internally we just say
it's not good enough.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (48:29):
Right, exactly.
But it went to the point. Peoplecould lose the perspective over
this. I call political shindigthat, that go crazy and rampage.

Tim Stout (48:44):
That and that's not to say that you haven't
experienced bias in your lifebecause you have Right, right.
You know, I've talked about thatbefore it, it happens,

Fr. Linh Nguyen (48:52):
but it's still the opportunity for us to climb.
You know, I I encountered somany great people that support
me who I am and what I do, do Ireceive from those who are anti
Asian, so I am Yeah. But am Icash and everything I grew on
and successful based on thosecomments if those people, Hell

(49:16):
no, I run around with the goodpeople that give me a better
chair shot a better life. Right.
And those, it's important. Andso this thing right now, I
think, for me the humor that wepaint to the point that we make
other nation look America at thedumpster, you know, undermining
what this country is. And Ithink those kind of social media

(49:40):
aspect of it, and I sincerelypeople really had to do some do
deal, deal, diligence searchingfor the truth, because they will
look for the hate crime of Asianyou can't find it at all. You
know, if I'm very smallpercentage is not really is a

(50:00):
pandemic, you know, you know,since everything is a pandemic
in this wars o'rowe Asian hatecrime is pandemic now.

Tim Stout (50:10):
I mean, you know, in rabbits I think that the the
media was trying to make. Imean, it was a serious event,
obviously that happened inGeorgia. But always think that
the the media is trying to throwit back and make it political
and say, Okay, we've got thisanti Asian bias that's going on.
Let's see if we can blame formerPresident Trump because he

(50:32):
called it the China virus. Andhe started, he started this anti
Asian bias. So let's let's makethis bigger than it is. Let's
make it something different thanit is because I think even I
mean, I've done some reading onit. But I think one of the
things that they said was theguy said, Nah, the the guy that
committed the crime said thiswould have nothing to do with
Asians.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (50:52):
Exactly it Yeah, but understand. For us,
for example, not not, do wereally know that this is truth
right here. So you talk aboutthat kind of market of massage
therapists. Okay. And who is thebest of that? Of course, not
pick on Korean, but Korean doingthat. If you talk about nail

(51:13):
polishing, you know, talk Korea,you talk Vietnamese, okay. You
would pedicure Medicare, youknow, Vietnamese, that end of
that. Okay. You want to knowabout Really? hotel business? Is
Indian. Right? Correct. And sojust because these do go in this
particular color, the FBI wasvery clear, right? They say what

(51:34):
is not a hate crime, right? Thisguy that really have a sexual
composer problem. he happened tobe part of that he shot this
group of people who happen to bepredominant set of people who
have will be Asian, and othersand they hate Asian.

Tim Stout (51:49):
How it works, man, that is crazy.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (51:52):
So it's, oh, that's a big conversation. My
family this weekend was abouthow ridiculous it is. Okay. How
we begin, there was an article,we turn into the puppet show,
okay? We call it the, the, theAsian, sentimental, whatever

(52:15):
they call it.

Tim Stout (52:17):
It's your mom or dad, your your brothers and sister.
They they live in apredominantly Vietnamese
community, correct. I mean, thatthey're not isolated.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (52:26):
They're not isolated that by integrating in
political, you know, society,they work very diligently in the
health care they do intechnology, they involve across
all my niece and nephew. I don'tthink they ever experience
discrimination on their part,the niece and nephew dies.

Tim Stout (52:45):
And your your brother was was a county commissioner

Fr. Linh Nguyen (52:49):
Joe he right now he worked for a nice title
is the the deputy grand deputy,I guess, for the water state
representative federalrepresentative. And so, so this
kind of thing, it'sunfortunately, has been catch on
with everything else with youknow, and everything kind of

(53:11):
feeling aspect. So why the dragAsian into this? Probably Asian
is, is it it's it would kind ofneat to be stirred up, let I
guess we've been very quiet outthere since the China virus,
whatever the President Trumpsaid, and so let's catch on to
it.

Tim Stout (53:32):
But you don't feel you don't feel threatened? We
felt threatened you, you dosomething about it exactly.
Change where you live communityor whatever. You know,

Fr. Linh Nguyen (53:43):
you have enough education and value to do what
it takes to defend yourself.
Right. And so that is essential.

Tim Stout (53:55):
You know, I think we, you know, we do what we need to
do to protect ourselves, ourfamilies, whatever I mean,
there's,

Unknown (54:04):
you know, I,

Tim Stout (54:06):
I'm, I'm, I'm a Caucasian, I will never
experience that type of racialinjustice that does exist in
this world. I'm not sayingneither one of us saying it
doesn't exist because it it doesexist. But we don't we as a
culture, don't do anythingpositive by calling something

(54:28):
anti Asian bias when that'sreally not what's happening in
that particular case.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (54:32):
Yeah, a lot of pain a lot of things for me,
there is a thing you know, likeyou got Caucasian, I'd be
concerned too is that we calledreverse incrimination. In other
words, you have done anythingwrong, just happened to be
white. So therefore you are thefastest, you know, you your
white supremacist. Okay, let'sbe fair on that. Okay. Tim is a
good guy. He's not, you know,I'm saying and so don't feel

(54:56):
that way.

Tim Stout (54:59):
You know, it's hard to It's hard to it's
uncomfortable now to make thosenew statements, you know,

Fr. Linh Nguyen (55:04):
it turned to mud into this whole level of
exerting sensitivity to thepoint that we not need to deal
with it. It's just ridiculous.
And so I think failing is becomea driven than logic.

Tim Stout (55:22):
And fact, we've lost track of facts. There's no doubt
about

Fr. Linh Nguyen (55:27):
we no longer be realists. Okay. And so
everything function based onthis feeling. And so nothing you
know, in my family we told youbefore, one of our nice God
lover, and she's the only oneand she'd become extremely on
this level of sensitivitygraduate from University of

(55:51):
Texas in Austin. And that was abig conversation my family hope
they don't hear this was wadedout. And that was a major issue
because she extremely sensitivethe point. You're not my
brother, his her dad. Okay.

Tim Stout (56:06):
He has, we're not gonna mention any name,

Fr. Linh Nguyen (56:09):
nickname. You know, literally, literally, we
translate to English black guy,unless he he skin was black. Or
she fed a fan to that. And wecall him lad says that he was
born. Okay. And my sister inlaw, is she dim when you met
him? He looked like Mexican.
Literally. That's what he lookedlike. I was with him. When we

(56:31):
approached a certain, you know,restaurant, the Hispanic people
speak Spanish to him. But I'mthe one who respond Spanish to
them. Okay, so we call him theMexican guy. And she took
offense to that on his behalf myyou, but he's fine. Okay. Stuff
like that, you know, itrepresent a culture, we become
so oversensitive, that we don'tknow why we are sensitive. For

(56:56):
what reason? And so back to thisissue about the the, the Asian
dilemma, I think that pieceneeds to be clarified. As a
general Asian, we'll find alltheir minor discrimination, but
Yes, they are. But we don't usethis as a pouting opportunity,

(57:16):
right? We don't sit here andstomp our feet and say, How dare
you? You hate us? You know,let's move forward.

Tim Stout (57:30):
That's what everybody's called to do. Right.
Yeah.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (57:32):
And it's just I mean, that's,

Tim Stout (57:33):
that's part of the the American history right, the
American dream, work hard. Moveforward.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (57:40):
That's what we do. And

Tim Stout (57:43):
great American stunning. Your story to me is
that, yeah, I mean, you thinkabout where this country was
during the Vietnam War, andwhere it is today. If there's a
if there's that much Asian biasthat media makes it out to be
right now, you wouldn't besitting right. Exactly. Your
brother wouldn't have been acounty commissioner. No, I mean,
your dad Grace's very successfulfamily.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (58:05):
And we we we take what this country offer.
And now we have to give it backto this country as we should.
That has always been ourfundamental base and what we own
and we indebted this country,you know, and then we move on
with that. Okay. And so thosepieces could never be

(58:25):
communicated How unfortunatethere was a program this came
out there was a movie forgot hisname now is out there right now
is I think it's on Hulu is aphenomenal movie. And I saw it
and I i've been advertisedcompletely forgot about it. But
it's really good. It talks aboutthe people Hollywood that was

(58:48):
anti Vietnam War, and they camehome and they throw this
propaganda against Americansoldier remember, American
soldier came back. The VietnamWar received a bad rap. bad rap
but no nothing. And so becauseof all this propaganda, and now
it's coming out. And it was astory was tell by a Vietnamese

(59:11):
soldier and being friend withone of the American army
captain, I believe, and he tellsthis story. It's a great movie.

Tim Stout (59:22):
You have to take that to mean I'll put it out so we
get that ring.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (59:27):
But you know, back to this anti Asian bias in
us is is again it is become amajor propaganda. You know, I'm
speaking as an Asian myself,extremely against what what
American is about is not theintegrity what it is. Okay.

Tim Stout (59:52):
Well, I appreciate your comments on that. I know
hopefully the listenersappreciate it too. I think
sometimes we get, we get we getfrustrated. But hear hearing
from you. I mean, I've got youknow, you and I have a good
relationship I trust. I trustthat you're telling me what
you've experienced, you know,you're not making it up because
of your political leanings.
Whether you lean left or right,it doesn't matter. I mean,

(01:00:13):
you're talking about with youand your family and your friends
have experienced Yeah, truly,

Fr. Linh Nguyen (01:00:21):
have you lived?
If you live true to theintegrity, what you meant to
live, courtesy, respect. Youknow, one thing I teach my kids
here at St. JOHN, two words areremember. Thank you. And I'm
sorry. If you use that truthdoesn't matter what race you
are, what color you are. You cancome up all right. I guarantee
you that.

Tim Stout (01:00:45):
I agree. I agree.
Hey, man, so many topics that wedidn't get to. And I had a whole
list of things because I wasworried it was just gonna be me
and you. We're not going to getto all the stuff and probably
good that we don't do some ofthese things are kind of
controversial.

Fr. Linh Nguyen (01:00:59):
Still, live is controversial. That's what Jesus
said when we started the HolyWeek, right? Yeah, like
controversial. Yeah,

Tim Stout (01:01:05):
we'll say some of these topics for next time.
Let's let's go to Steve, youready for the day over there
because I'm ready. Saying of theday is St. Catherine of Genoa. I
hope I got the audio connectedwith the right slides. Here we
go.

Unknown (01:01:21):
This is Franciscan media saint of the day for March
26. Today we celebrate StCatherine of Genoa. A deep
conversion experience while inthe confessional marked a new
beginning for Catherine ofGenoa, something she badly
needed. Born into a noble familyCatherine was married at age 16

(01:01:41):
to Julian who turned out to beself centered and unfaithful.
For a time Catherine tried tonumb her disappointment with
selfish pleasure. But one day inconfession, Catherine received a
new sense of her sinfulness andhow much God loved her. For the
next 25 years she immersedherself in good works, as well
as prayer and fasting byreforming her own life.

(01:02:03):
Catherine gave good example toJulian, who experienced his own
conversion. Just as the pairwere beginning to move in a new
direction. They learned thatJulian spending sprees had
ruined them financially. Husbandand wife moved into a large
hospital in Genoa, where theydedicated themselves to charity.
Catherine focused on working asa nurse and administrator

(01:02:26):
heroically ministering to manyduring the deadly epidemic of
1493 that killed 80% of thecity's population. Catherine
died in 1510 and was canonizedin 1737. There's more about the
saints along with inspirationand Catholic resources at our
website, Saint of the day.org.
From Franciscan media, this hasbeen st of the day.

Tim Stout (01:02:50):
St. Catherine of Genoa,

Fr. Linh Nguyen (01:02:52):
83% pandemic death

Tim Stout (01:02:56):
is a little bit higher than what we were just

Fr. Linh Nguyen (01:02:58):
a little bit higher.

Tim Stout (01:03:00):
You always have to have things in perspective. Hey,
our next show is April 9. That'stwo weeks from tonight. And our
guests are going to be Barbaraand Eric Conklin. They're
they're not new prisoners. Iwell. It's hard to say for me
what's new pressure anymore?
Because I've been, you know, notseeing prisoners for a year but

(01:03:21):
they've been they've been arounda couple years. Right. And
great. Greg couple, they'respearheading the start of a new
marriage ministry here I guessyou kind of gave the blessing to
do that at prior to COVID itstarted to get you know taken
off and then COVID hit and youknow they're fired back up here
and kaelin actually went to ameeting last week I think it was

(01:03:45):
last week. I'm excited about it.
And we're gonna talk about itnext week. And we're gonna be
out of the studio we're gonna belive at always have trouble the
name of this place slot, a slota slot a it's a pub. So and
we're going to be in the

Fr. Linh Nguyen (01:04:03):
upper room, upper room.

Tim Stout (01:04:05):
What a great place for some Catholics to beat in
the upper room. I'm excited. Youexcited about

Fr. Linh Nguyen (01:04:11):
the upper room was the place where they offer
mass for Scott County. Firsttime, first time when the
traveling priests. We stopped byScott County two minutes from
the family. He stay at thatplace. Where is the slanty right
now and he had mass on the upperroom and we bless that place.

Tim Stout (01:04:30):
I met with Steven I met with Ashley this morning
Matt nationally known are theowners there it's latte and she
told me he came up blessed it sothey're I think they're excited
to have us we've had a coupleother events there but Dallas
will he won't have to bring beernext week. That'll per two
weeks. That'll be two shows in arow that he won't have to bring
beer but Dallas, if you'relistening, bring your wallet

(01:04:52):
because you're opening the tabto pay for non Miller light. I
don't think they serve yourlight there. So should be fine.
It's a good way we'll we're inthe middle of the easter season
and really hear a lot about themarriage ministry which i think
is is gonna be exciting

Unknown (01:05:06):
yes

Tim Stout (01:05:07):
it is got a lot a lot of new people involved in that
organization too so excitedabout that so hey if you had a
question and we didn't get to itbecause dallas isn't here he's
the guy that monitors facebookhey just comment on the video
and let us know so we'll see younext week you know i see a

(01:05:31):
donate today button up there ssfj.org or sts ss francis john.org
either want to get you theresupport our ministries the
pandemic has been hard on us asas a collective we've we've
managed to get through prettygood thanks to the generosity
and support of our parishionerslisteners school families

(01:05:52):
through your hours of dedicationthrough your contributions so
ssf j.org is how you cancontinue to contribute to those
things so hey father can yougive us a blessing are you okay
to do that yeah

Fr. Linh Nguyen (01:06:06):
let's do this

Tim Stout (01:06:07):
okay you could use a prayer st joe's

Fr. Linh Nguyen (01:06:09):
st joseph one of many glorious patriot st
joseph whose power makes theimpossible possible come to our
aid in this time of anguish anddifficulty take under your
protection to serious andtroubling situation that we
commend to you that they mayhave a happy outcome my beloved

(01:06:30):
father all our trust is in yourin you let it not be said that
we invoke you in vain and sinnedyou can do everything with jesus
and mary show me that yourgoodness is as great as your
power amen and may almighty godbless you the father and the son

(01:06:51):
and the holy spirit amen

Tim Stout (01:06:53):
amen hey until next week i'm taking tim i'm father
lynn deacon dallas is gone butgood night everybody

Fr. Linh Nguyen (01:06:59):
good night everybody thank you see you at
mass

Tim Stout (01:07:02):
amen

Unknown (01:07:12):
did you ever stop and think well i spent too much time
i don't know or saying the thingthat i haven't noticed then
when i see my heart startsracing but i don't know if

(01:07:42):
it's the same thing my hands areshaking
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