again happy independence day to you all and i do uh thank god that we can all be together and exercising our religious liberties today up here in washington new jersey of all fitting places like father luke said my name is father john maria devaney of the dominican friars in the province of saint joseph i currently am stationed at the parish of saint pius v in providence rhode island where i serve as pastor And I live a part of the Dominican Friars community at Providence College.

And as Father Luke shared, I grew up in Clinton.

And Immaculate Conception in Annandale was my home parish.

Grew up in the diocese of Metuchen.

And many, many beautiful memories of coming up here to the Blue Army Shrine since I was a little child.

My father was part of a Blue Army prayer cell group at St. Anne's in Hampton.