And what impressed you most about the conference, would you say, when you got there? Well,

Michelle, I don't know.

Would you like to lead off? And I should say, Michelle and I, we didn't say, oh, send me.

I just want to mention our central service team prays about everything.

And I always love that one spiritual advisor always used to say reality has a way of helping discernment sometimes, right? And so we had a couple of our folks on the CST who were having knee surgeries, knee replacements.

Yeah, there you go.

And some were attending their children's weddings, graduations, all this.

The mission is, go ahead

And can you give us some examples of a time or times where when you've had to practice communal discernment, whether it was at work or especially in the ministry of Magnificat, maybe even in a prayer group and just share a little bit with our viewers what that looked like.

Well, you know, Angela, I'm going to start with the word you just said, prayer group.

Okay.

To me, and I look back on my own journey, because I had my own little conversion of heart along the way, you know, we, went away to college, got enlightened and all that good stuff.

But thank God in his mercy, he brought me back into, you know, Holy Mother Church.

But that prayer group, which was a result of Medjugorje, you know, some folks came back and of course, Our Lady encourages us to have prayer groups, you know, Bible studies and such.

But, you know, so that like-minded people can be sharing that journey together.

Let's let's hear.

Do you wanna share just a little bit of that journey and how the Lord carried you, brought you through it, surrendered?

surrendered?I'd love to.

[laughs] All right.

Um, no, it's been a very interesting year, Bishop.

You're, you're absolutely right.

Uh, some of you are aware, uh, last November I was going to a nice dinner and, um, you know in the parking lots how they have those crevices and they fill them up with asphalt, and sometimes it kind of overflows a little bit? Anyway, long story short, I had very safe shoes on.

I didn't have heels on or anything, but the sole of my shoe just caught that asphalt that had overflowed a little bit just right.

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