Shout Out To Gen Z

Chris, in Italy, gives a big shoutout to Gen Z for packing a 1,000-year-old Florence church for Ash Wednesday and Sunday Mass. A hopeful sign of faith from American college kids abroad. www.watchdogonwallstreet.com

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Big shout out to gen Z. Listen, I have to
be fair, Okay. I have made fun on my radio
show here on the podcast various different shall we say,
Peccadillo's from jen Z. But I got to tell you something.
I am mom. I'm in Italy right now. On today
is ash Wednesday. Went to church this past Sunday, went

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to church today and I was blown away, absolutely blown away.
Made my day. I've had an ear to ear smile
all day. There's a beautiful church in Florence, Italy, and
it's a thousand years old, the thousand year old church.

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It's the oldest church in Florence. You have a lot
of these, the ones that Europe, the famous churches that
you see and all of the pictures and Santa Quota
and all these other things that everybody's familiar with. You
might not be familiar with this one. But anyway, uh apostole.
But anyway, a thousand year old church and they have
English language masses, so I would Sunday went today. Let

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me tell you something, pot with kids, kids, a lot
of a lot of Americans going to school in Europe,
and it was filled with gen Z college kids going
to Mass on Sunday on ash Wednesday. And I would
again shout out to you kids because I'm here to

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tell you it wasn't like that when I was here
decades ago, which is a very very hopeful sign for
the future. Ash Wednesday. If you're not familiar to the
start of Lent and well basically what you do for

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you go and you look to repent and change your
ways and people talk about getting stuff up to when
giving up chocolate, Yeah, I guess you can try to
try to give up something, try to make sacrifices that
are going to turn around and make you a better
person in the long run. And that's that's what it

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really is all about. And you know, getting you to
that next level where you're trying to be more like Jesus.
That's what we're supposed to do. If you're not familiar
with what's what it's all about. But again, a phenomenal
showing today a church thousand year old plus church, oldest

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church informance fill to the rafters with college students going
to Mash for Mass for ASH Wednesday. God Bless watch
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