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Aubrey Kern

Aubrey Kern

Physical therapist specializing in pelvic and abdominal dysfunction; owner of Flourish Pelvic Therapy in Dayton, Ohio; adjunct faculty at University of Dayton DPT program

Jun 1, 2026

6:44
[laughs]
6:44
Like, "Why do you need beads to pray?" And I just really didn't understand any of it.
6:50
And so after that ended, I just kind of remember sitting with it, and I was like, "I'm gonna go to OCIA to prove Catholics wrong." And I went, and I signed up in October of last year.
7:03
And I remember they had like an intake session where they just kinda wanted to see where you were at in your walk, 'cause there are a lot of people there who like are non-believers at first who are coming into the church.
7:13
But I went in, and I just sat in front of Isaac, who was our OCIA leader.
7:17
And I was like, "Isaac, do you guys worship Mary?" [laughs] And I went through like a list of questions I had, and he answered them all.
7:25
And I was really expecting him to not have the answers that I wanted, and he answered every single one.

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32:15
If you have any advice for people who are asking these questions, they're coming across your Instagram profile, they're non-denominational, they're Protestant, and they're like, "Huh, interesting," what would you tell them to do first if they have these questions like you and I had?

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