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#696 The Multi-Headed Hydra: It's Faith or Chaos "I Have Overcome the Evil One"

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The year feels heavy, and not just because the headlines won’t let up. We name what so many feel but can’t quite articulate: mercy has been generous, but justice is near, and the gap between those two realities exposes where our hearts stand. From a controversial shooting to deeper cultural rifts, we trace how sin breeds lawlessness, how lawlessness fractures families and cities, and why banding together around truth and charity is the only path through the noise.

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Good to be with you. I hope you're doing well. If you remember, last Friday, which is really astounding, uh last Friday uh I called this year, 2026, was going to be the year of the great harvest. I said something was on my heart, right? The year felt uh heavier to me in this new year. We reached some type of hint, something something big was going to come up, I said. And so I won't rehash all of that, but it was the next day that we saw uh we went into Venezuela and got Maduro out. Um we just saw recently that um an ICE agent uh shot a uh uh a woman that was trying to run him over in a car, uh and it goes on and on and on, right? So a lot of activity going on uh even around the world. You you wonder how uh the Trump administration can keep up with all this. I mean, it's just one thing after another. About a hundred years ago, Sister Faustina, uh this with the image of the divine mercy that you see was told to to paint that, that Christ told her that this is the time of my mercy, that I want to just pour out mercy. That's where you see the blood and water that's coming out of that image, that's the the lance that went up and struck the heart of Jesus, and water came out, baptism, forgiveness, and the blood, uh Jesus' life itself in the Eucharist. And so he says, I want to pour out this mercy to you because the time of justice is coming. And and that's what we're entering into now. I really have the sense that this is the time of justice is at hand. We have this time of mercy, which continues for all of us, um, but we really see uh the evil starting to really heat up here and and everybody's dividing, like I said in in a in a couple of last podcasts between the wheat the weeds and the wheat, huh? And we're doing this ourselves. So I want to uh talk to you just a little bit, kind of put things in perspective on even that woman that was shot. I uh Laura Chin, who has a huge following at X, is is trying to figure out, she says, why that the Minnesota ice death is bothering me so much, she said. This is that that uh that woman that I just mentioned again, they got they got shot, right? So she's in a vehicle, if you remember this, uh in a big SUV. She's uh blocking the ice agents from doing their work up there, and I won't get into all the details, but as you know, she went forward and and she gets shot. She's uh there's an ICE agent right in front of her car, boom, she pulls uh forward, he shoots through the window, and and uh and and she's and and kills her. So Laura Chin posts that she says the liberal woman was willing to take on federal agents. She said, This is why it's bothering me too so much. She's willing to take on federal agents to disrupt ICE operations in order to protect criminal Somalis. So you have to think about that. Now she doesn't even know those criminal Somalis. She's not even from Minnesota. She's uh she's she's in this big car, she's following ICE agents around. What makes a a woman do this? She's got children and pulls in front of these uh ICE agents and takes them on to disrupt their operations to protect criminal Somalis that we know have have uh have taken billions of dollars, money that should have gone to taxpaying citizens. And so they they they disrupt this criminal uh affair that's going on up there that's embedded in their politics, et cetera, et cetera. And she goes on to say, obviously, she probably didn't imagine that she would be killed, but surely she must have known that at the very least she'd be arrested. So she has three kids, and she's willing to be separated from her kids to protect Somali criminals. Speaking as a mother, uh this woman says, this is insanity, this is not rational thinking. Well, it is instead the result of a liberal brain rot that convinces progressive women that they have more of a duty to nurture and protect criminals, strangers, than their own country, and hell, even their own children. And she goes on uh to says, I'm praying for this woman's soul and her family, and I mean it when I say this type of thinking is wholly responsible for the decline of Western civilization. So I'll just add now, we're in a spiritual battle. And so this has been unfolding, and we see this battle intensifying. So this is already as a civil war in this country, besides all the wars going on outside, and to oversimplify but draw the sides, it's a battle and a belief it's a belief really in the culture of life, and a belief in God and the principles of our nation are founded on one side, and those who have rejected God and brought the culture of death, the godless who've forgotten what it means to be human, to love, to respect people, to pursue what's true, good, and beautiful, to even follow laws. So John Paul II said when the sense of God is lost, the sense of man, men and women, is also threatened and poisoned, and it brings that poison and that threatening into uh our civilization, and we see that. I want to read you from in in this week's readings have been so beautiful. I'm gonna encourage you to read the first letter of John. So John, who also wrote the Gospel of John, wrote three letters. The first one's uh a little bit longer, the other two are very, very short. But uh it's that first letter of John is just so potent, it's just so powerful. I wanted to read you a little bit, and one of the things that uh that we talk about in here, John talks about here, is the people of lawlessness. What are the people of lawlessness? Just watch for this around you, and it's because of sin. Sin brings lawlessness in. This is from the second chapter where he says this, I'm writing you little children because your sins are forgiven for his sake. I am writing you fathers because you know him who was from the beginning. He's talking about Jesus, of course. I'm writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father, God the Father. I write to you fathers, earthly fathers, because you know him who from the beg is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one. How do you overcome the evil one? Through Jesus Christ for his redemption on the cross. This is the this is why they they want to take this down. They want to take Christ out, because if you take Christ out, the man of lawlessness who who really just takes himself from Satan himself will just rain destruction around the whole world, just mindless destruction. And that was the the point we're making about that woman. She has no connection to those people. So why would she even do this, right? It's just lawlessness. You you you just become uh indoctrinated and taken over and possessed. You know, it's amazing. So um in John goes on to write this, he says, so do not love the world or the things of the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life is not of God the Father, but is of the world. And the world passes away and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides forever. That's so important, isn't it? That this world is passing away. It's not gonna be here very long. Your life is not gonna be here very long. Let's say the the the second coming is not eminent. We don't know dates and stuff, we know something's happening here that we're gonna be paying attention to. But but at the end of the day, your life, my life, is gonna go very, very quick. So this is from chapter three. Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness. And I'm pronouncing that slowly, right? Lawlessness. And that's what you're seeing around you. I just want to keep that in mind. Sin is lawlessness. And then he goes on to say in chapter five, the same letter. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. So this of Jesus overcomes the world when you're united to Christ. How do you overcome the world? You have to receive that. You have to receive redemption, we have to say yes, salvation. We take in the water and the blood. Again, water, baptism, confession, the washers of sin, and this is coming right from Christ Himself, and then the blood, huh? The Eucharist. We go to Mass and receive the Eucharist. It's so beautiful, right? So whatever is born of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith. Our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? But he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. So why do I bring all this up right now and unite it together? Because this is what you see the culture, the the culture of life from Jesus. This is what they want to destroy. They want to destroy God in the world, Christ in the world, what he did in the world. And Christ said, I came into the world what? To destroy a sin, to destroy the evil one, the power of the evil one. So Christ on the cross offered mercy and forgiveness, came to conquer the works of the devil. The same battle for the salvation or destruction of the human person, made in the image and likeness of God. And this is playing across the globe, isn't it? So in 2026, the year is something big. So let's put it in perspective. When we read the signs of the time, just use your reason. And what does reason do? Remember, it seeks the truth. What is the truth of things in union with your experiences? Just what you see, what you're seeing out there. Pay attention, but don't get all nervous and uptight about it. Put it in perspective. Kind of take a step back and say, ooh, yeah, this evil that Jack's talking about is really going on. And then what do we do? We we use our reason that seeks the truth. What is the truth of the thing? What's the experience of this? And say, yeah, I want to use my free will to choose the good, to choose the beautiful in the world, and not get caught up in just these sentiments and emotions, right? That's why you have to take time off of scroll this constant scrolling all the time and sit back and as Jesus said, recollect recollect yourself in silence. These aren't normal times, right? When you see these uh mayoral uh races around American cities right now, what are they? They're pro-socialist, Marxist, which are also atheist, and also, you know, they there's such a disruption with families and stuff that the state likes that, of course, wants that. And because what we look to to the state is dad or mom, or we become dependent on the state. This is what you see with so many young people uh being attracted there. They've grown up in in so much dysfunction, so many of them, and they look at the state, they're they're looking for an answer. What is the answer to all this evil? And if you don't know what we're talking about here, you you you hear this these mayors uh say, hey, we're gonna give you all this free stuff, we're gonna be there for you, we're gonna support you, and nobody else is doing that. And so be they are going to church, they haven't been raised in a church, so they have no community there to support them. And if you don't have a uh a close-knit family, you're you're out in the world and you hear these things. You say, Yes, so you can be kind of indoctrinated very, very easily, right? So what do you hear about them? They're not only uh socialists and communists. This is so insane. They all uh uh they they all embrace these radical gender ideologies. Abortion, you of course, right? You have to be able to kill your own child. And then if that child escapes the womb, ooh, we have to trans that child. We have to at least be open to that, right? Puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, mutilate the body of a child. Why? Why, why, why? Because of course, to to make them sterile. Again, if you can't kill the child in the womb, we're gonna we're gonna make them sterile, we're gonna bring the culture of death into the world. So you just have to realize that all these gender ideologies, promoting what I mean, even um uh let's call it same-sex marriage, there's no there's no fertility there. You know, there's it so it takes a man and a woman to have a a child. Now, if they do come together for a child, then I want to take that child and and and destroy it, render it sterile, or allow marriages that are sterile in the very beginning, right? And so again, this is all again, I the reason I bring these up is not to condemn individual people. Um, they're all called to salvation, really, and that's what we want to do. We want to open this up, but it's gonna be very, very difficult when uh they've been indoctrinated so deeply here that they uh don't even know how to embrace uh the gospel. And that's why it's important for us to to bring the gospel even into those situations, right? And here's the here's the wild thing. These social Marxists, uh socialist Marxists, because they like to weaken the family, we could kind of see how those ideologies work together, right? The gender ideologies with uh uh Marxism, uh socialism. But here's the here's this hydra, right? So you have socialism, Marxism, you've got these gender ideologies on one hand and and and and let's call it radical feminism, right? With abortion, et cetera. And then you have another head, which is they embrace uh radical is uh Islamists. And you say, well, why would they embrace radical Islamists because they don't condone uh abortion or trans ideologies, do they? No, but you put them all together because what's the what's the union and communion with them? Is they're all uh attacking Christ and the church, Jesus Christ who was once again mocked, scourged, and finally crucified in in modern times, right? So it could become up very confusing as you see this multi-hydra, hydra is a multi-headed serpent, and all of these different things attacking. But if you sit back again and just say, ooh, that ugliness, that attack uh in the world, uh it's always an attack on Christ, it's an attack on his church because it's an attack on the in the human person created in the image and likeness of God. Remember that Satan doesn't have his own clay. Satan can only twist and distort what God has created good. When you sit back, you open yourself up with the Claymore battle plan, right? First thing in the morning you open yourself up to Christ, you open up your heart, you're gonna do what he tells you. What happens is your will now, united to his, does what? You're gonna go out and choose what's good. That's what your will does, right? It's like a motor to the good. And so I look out into the world and I'm gonna say, yeah, I want to analyze it. What's true in the world, what's good in the world, what's beautiful in the world, especially the beauty of love. And I want to embrace that. Remember, God is love. We forget that sometimes. The the God who's hanging on the cross is this God who's pouring himself out to you. Think about that. Just sit back and think about that, how beautiful that is. The God of the universe would take on a body to to what? To forgive sins, to save us. And in a sense, we unite our humanity to his on the cross. He unites it with his divinity, right? And then overcomes sin and death, and he pours that out to us. That's what's happening on every mass. So uh Jesus said to Sister Faustina the other day in the diary as I'm listening to her. Remember, part of the Claymore battle plan is you're you you listen to uh a little bit of that diary every morning. Just download that diary, the diary app. So he said uh to Sister Faustina, it's important to be humble, so I humble myself, right? That's why we go to our knees in the morning. So just kind of open yourself up. I didn't create the universe. You can be overwhelmed. It's easy to be humble in this crazy time. And then he said, have a purity of intentions. So while you're kneeling there, he say, I'm gonna go about my day. At least I'm gonna have a purity of intentions. That means everything won't be perfect, but I'm starting out that way, and that's the way I want my heart. And he said, Become a person of love. Love the next person you see. And then, and then he said, always take time to r recollect your uh recollect yourself, because you you need to be in in quiet recollection, he said, so you can hear my voice. For he said, I don't scream and yell. The world is screaming and yelling, right? The world screams at us with its noise and its attractions, this evil force, this power of all yelling and screaming at each other. Um it can wear you down, can't it? These these crazy activists, you know, that are paid activists to yell and scream and get in your face, and we just take a step back, and how beautiful that we're invited to be restored and filled. We go to the eternal well of God's grace. How? In silence, peace, and we hear his soft voice. You know, when I was a young man, scripture always spoke to me. And and I want to read you from one of my favorite of all times. It's from the Old Testament, it's from the first uh Kings. So there's Kings 1 and Kings 2. This is 1 Kings chapter 19. I'll just give you a little bit on this, but it's all about this quiet and that God is calling us into, that Jesus wants to call you into, so you can sit in silence and you listen to his word. Elijah the prophet, so he, Elijah the prophet, it's great prophet, Elijah, he's uh he's been given the ruling powers a warning. He's warning them, you know, that hey, bad things are are gonna come to you, uh King, if you keep this up. Well, anyways, the king doesn't like that, of course. And he sends a messenger and he threatens Elijah that the that he's going to destroy Elijah. Sound familiar, right? We had that just in and don't forget this, we had this right in the United States with the Biden administration just last year, who were sending FBI SWAT teams uh to people's houses like Marcalk for for basically praying with the son outside an abortion child sacrifice center. You see that? January 6th, right? Uh in in going back five years ago, we just had the anniversary, five-year anniversary of that. They took people, basically innocent people, and put them in prison all this time in solitary confinement. You can't make this up. I was there on January 6th. People that were right in you know in front of me, now I didn't go into that facility because I knew that I said, hey, you know, this is anti-productive. We were there to support these the uh congressmen and senators there that wanted to make sure about the vote. So I won't go into all that. I've talked about that lots of times already. But people that were in front of me that did go through those barriers, that did go inside that Capitol, you know, uh I I hadn't I thought, oh my gosh, you know, we're ruining, we're going to uh, you know, ruin what we're out here to try to accomplish again, which is to show support, do it in a very peaceful way. But anyways, they walked in there and boom, boom, started to snap pictures, as you know that story, and then they came after them. And for basically uh trespassing, even though they for many of them right in front of me, they it was all open, they could just walk right in. Now, there were some skirmishes on the side. But again, they walked inside, snapped some pictures, walked back out. Those people that didn't even have a traffic ticket were put in solitary confinement, their lives ruined uh for five years. Anyways, that's the the the power of evil that could come after you, right? So again, uh I just want to bring that up again because we saw that. You know, if you think about nothing else about uh Trump, that type of situation from the federal level is not going to happen. So, anyways, God sends his prophets not to tell the future, but to wake people up to the reality of the evils of our day. That's why John Paul, Bishop Sheen, Sister Lucia, they were the prophets of our day that I that I uh I mentioned a lot, right? And and they're not just telling you the future, they're saying, hey, wake up and see what's going on around you. So here's Elijah. He's afraid of the threat. So I'm gonna Pick this up from one Kings nineteen verse three. Go go back and read this later on and just sit in this. This is again this recollection that Jesus called us into. So Elijah was afraid. He rose and fled for his life and came to Beersheba in Judah. He and he left his servant there and he went a day's journey into the wilderness. You know, he's going into the wilderness now. And he gets very down. He came to a broom tree and he sat beneath it. He asked for death. He's nervous. He's, you know, some of the January 6th people and some of these other people, they took their lives. You know, you you can get so um despondent, right? So down, so nervous, so scared even, you just say, you know, what what's worth it? What you know, I I try to do good for you, uh God, and and this evil's around you. So just know it is around you. There's only one Savior. And and uh unfortunately there's so many people that uh cooperate with evil in the world, and that's what you're seeing, the sin of lawlessness, right? So this is this is enough, O Lord, he says, Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors. So he lay down and he fell asleep under the broom tree, and then an angel touched him and said to him, Get up and eat. He looked, and there at the head was a a hearth cake and a jug of water, and he ate and he drank, and then he lay down again. But the angel of the Lord came back a second time, touched him, and said, Get up and eat, else the journey will be too long for you. So he got up and ate and drank, and then strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights up to the mountain of God Horeb, and then he came to a cave where he took shelter, and the Lord said to him, Why are you here, Elijah? I have been most zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, because the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, torn down your altars, put your prophets to the sword, I alone am left, and they seek to take my life. Then the Lord said, Go outside and stand on the mountain before the Lord, the Lord will be passing by. A strong and heavy wind was rendering the mountain and crushing rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in that wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, everything shaking, but the Lord was not in that earthquake. And after the earthquake earthquake there was a fire, and boom the fire was huge, but the Lord was not in that fire. After the fire there was a tiny whispering sound. So all of this going on. Isaac seized his power, he's listening, forgot nothing, nothing, nothing. And then this tiny whispering sound in the quiet. When Elijah heard this, he hid his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave, and a voice said to him, Why are we here, Elijah? He replied, Again, I have been most zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, because the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, torn down your altars, put your prophets to the sword, I alone and left, and they seek to take my life. The Lord said to him, Go back, take the road to the take the road to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive you will anoint King Hazel as King of Erim, and then it goes on. But anyways, the point I wanted to make is the one I did, right? That all this confusion, all this noise, you need to recollect yourself because God's going to come to you in that moment of silence. When you read scripture, when you open yourself up, you know, you and watch, listen for God's signs around you. And then when you go out into the world, things will start to look different. They're going to happen different. So it's it's really a beautiful thing. Take on, when you see all this craziness coming around, just say it doesn't make sense, right? People that are uh socialists and communists, and you could see how, again, they always wanted to destroy the child in the womb. It's always an attack on marriage in the family because again, they want to weaken that, they can control it, embrace it. So that makes sense. All that evil makes sense. But when they are embrace radical uh is Islam, uh radical Muslims that don't embrace uh abortion, don't embrace the trans things. But what do they all have in common? They hate uh Christianity, they hate uh the Western world that was built on Christianity and his bride the church. So you're always gonna see all of these together are always attacking Christ and his bride the church. They're gonna have an opening for those that that uh cooperate with Satan to do what? To take down the Imago Day, the image of of God and the world, which is what? Marriage and the family. Again, Sister Lucia of Fatima, right? The last great battle that we're in is gonna be over marriage and the family. So when you see uh radical uh Islam, uh socialists, communists, you know, the feminists, radical feminists, and gender ideologies, why are they all coming together? It doesn't make sense. It's like oil and water, right? They don't all fit together. This m mayor of Minneapolis uh made a deal with the devil. And and the people of Minneapolis made a deal with the devil when it re-elected the incumbent uh Jacob Fry. He's a left-wing activist who let his city burn during the 2020 George Floyd riots. And and certainly they want to use this um this ICE agent to start another riot when he killed this woman. But this time we're all on to him, aren't we? They may try, but this time we're stepping back and say, hey, you know, uh, you know, if you're gonna burn this down, you're not gonna burn my city down. The sin of lawlessness that we see around you. Why why do you want to burn the city down? Trans to kids. They have they're the they're a trans refuge, right? For for these are young people that are confused about their sexuality and they become this trans refuge, right, where they can kind of basically run away from their families and get uh uh taken care of with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, mutilate their very bodies again. This is an impossibility. This is how insane this is. It's impossible for a little boy to become a woman. If you castrate a little boy, if you cut off the breast and and try to fashion a phallus, a penis on a little girl, it it it all you're doing is it's like Frankenstein, right? We're we're putting these body parts on these, but you haven't changed anything about them. I just become a uh uh a little boy who's been castrated. I don't become a woman. This is the insanity that they're pushing. So just pay attention to this because the evil, it's always the evil of what? It's the evil of taking down Christ and his church. So when you see uh what's going on in there, just kind of keep that awe in mind, this evil, and and you say, well, how can these people fall for this? Again, when your reason um is is not influenced by God anymore, what makes us different than all the animals? It's our reason. We search for the truth, and we have free will, we can choose the good. This makes us different than than than uh any animals. Our bodies are sacred. Our bodies are sacred, our minds, our spirits are sacred to choose what's true, good, and beautiful in the world. But you know, when a child escapes its mother's womb, just think they're hounded by the demonic forces of evil to destroy their fertility, mutilate their bodies. You know, it's important for us to remember all that. That's why he wants a twist and distort marriage where uh a child grows up without even a mother or a father and all these gender ideologies and things. So we need to take a deep breath from this gathering storm, educate ourselves to be able to see what's going on, and then you see the power of Jesus Christ in your life, right? Because you experience it yourself. You start to see the lens differently. And so uh I want to going out here, I want to read this also from the letter of John, and I'm gonna read this kind of slowly, maybe just take a deep breath really and just sit there and it and here it goes. And whatever we ask, we receive from him, whatever he asked Jesus, whatever he asked the Father, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. And his commandment is this, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another. Imagine all this hatred, and and this is the whole commandment to love one another just as he commanded us. And John writes, Whoever keeps his commandment, love is, you know, the love of God and love your your neighbor, right? And I'm adding this, you can't go out and give what you don't have, and that's what this sin of lawlessness is, right? Uh these people get twisted and distorted because they haven't gone to the well, they haven't gone to the side of Christ and received uh baptism, they haven't received the washing, they haven't received the union and communion with God. And so whoever keeps his commandment abides in God and God in him, and by this we shall know that he abides in uh in us, by the spirit which he has given us, the Holy Spirit. Beloved, do not believe every spirit, so there's the spirits of the world, right, to want to push you around, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. Isn't this something this was written two over two thousand years ago? And it's the same. We want the Holy Spirit to be filled. How you do this, right? Again, the same thing we've talked about in this podcast, to open yourself up to prayer. And when Jesus went to the Father, he said, It's good that I go. This is after his resurrection, he's gonna go to the Father. And he says, Because the Father will send you the advocate, the counselor, the Spirit, the Holy Spirit. By this you know the Spirit of God. So he says, Okay, here's all the spirits. He says, You know, but how do you know this is the Holy Spirit? Because when in my heart, every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ is coming to come in the flesh, into the world, and every spirit which does not confess Jesus Christ is not of the Lord. And so let me see say that in case it doesn't clear. So how do I know that this is the Holy Spirit within me? Because it's a spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. This is of God. How do I know the spirits that are against this, the spirits of the world, right? That I need to reject? Because they they don't confess Jesus is of God. This is the battle again. You know, uh Marxism, socialism, communism, they're gonna reject that Jesus is God. Radical feminists, abortion, uh gender ideologies, they're gonna reject uh Jesus is God. Radical Islam, they're gonna reject that Jesus is is God. So they all say Jesus is not of God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist, John uh John writes. He said, Little children, fathers, sons, you are of God and have overcome the evil one. For he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are of the world, therefore what they say is of the world, and the world listens to them. Isn't that true? We are of God. Whoever knows God listens to us. Whoever is not of God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. That's from one John chapter three. So go back and read one John chapter three and into chapter four. Once you start reading this, you won't want to stop. But don't try to read it too fast, huh? Uh just kind of nice and easy, take that in, right? This is a call uh to to to a spiritual battle. Rebuild that on Christ. Make sure you download the Claymore battle plan and follow that. And I'll just say this to you. Uh the handbook is is uh getting closer to being published, and the handbook is part of the the uh the outline that you'll see there as you download that. Uh but you could start on that now. Just getting down on your knees in the morning. Just do that 10-minute ritual if you haven't done anything else yet. Start with that. But here's what I was going to say. With the handbook coming out, we're going to really make a push uh to to bring this to every area, every community, every parish. It's very, very easy to to do with the handbook because the handbook, again, are 52 acts, 52 short uh, they would be like short chapters. So it it brings you the whole power of everything that we're we're we're we've been exploring on this podcast for the last five years. And it brings it to you in this beautiful way, like a like a pyramid in front of you, uh get your heart back, understand marriage and the family, Christ and the church, how that's united, and how to go out and restore the culture and the nation. And it's so beautiful. But we don't do this on our own. We do this with discipling and building small communities of friendship. And this is so powerful. And so we want this to be into every parish, every area. And so if you're willing to be a leader in that area, uh email me. I'll get the email that's in the show notes. Or if you just want to participate, say, hey, I don't want to be a leader, I don't even know anything about this, but I'm interested in learning more, then still email me. I'll put you on a list. And when that handbook comes out, we'll find somebody in your community and we'll link you up together. So we want to be able to hit the ground running here. So let's not delay. Download the Claymore battle plan outline right now, getting ready for the the handbook to come out. But we need uh leaders all over, and we also need people that are just interested. So let us know. We're putting a database together right now with your name, email, uh, phone number if you want to put on there, and then we'll start to light up the spark. You know, so we're gonna have a lot of uh fun with this because we can get our hearts back. We know we're doing good things in the world. When I say fun, it's a real joy when you're walking in the the spirit, capital S, the spirit, but you're doing it with other brothers and you're learning and you're building on Christ, right? This spiritual battle built on Christ, the foundation. This is from Matthew, is it seven? Uh, I think so, where it's Jesus is talking about building your house on the rock, huh? And not on the shifting sand. Build it on the spirit, the Holy Spirit, on him and his sacrifice. And and uh and uh otherwise just shifting sand. It's a win-win situation because you're doing good things in the world and you have one eye on where you're going, right? To eternal life. So this life goes on uh very quickly. Let's let's have meaning and purpose in our life. Let's know where we're going. It's such a much better way to live. Hey, God bless you. Great to be with you guys. Talk to you again later. Keep me in your prayers. I keep you in mind. Bye bye.