The John-Henry Westen Show

00:00:00.000 We are speaking with Fr. James Altman, who, as you might have heard already, has just been served papers, if you will, by his bishop, removing his faculties, removing his pastor, which we already knew was coming.

00:00:12.980 So you're going to want to stay tuned for this, a first reaction from Fr. Altman on the day of.

00:00:30.000 Fr. Altman, so good to be with you.

00:00:40.620 Let's begin, as we always do, at the Son of the Cross.

00:00:42.400 If you wouldn't mind leading us in the Son of the Cross, but also a little prayer that comes from your heart right now.

00:00:48.460 All right. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

00:00:54.360 Heavenly Father, we rely upon the witness of saints through the centuries, through the millennia.

00:01:00.000 Especially one of my favorite, St. Philip Neary, who said, cast yourselves in the arms of God.

00:01:04.780 Rest assured that if he wants anything of you, he'll fit you for the task and give you the strength.

00:01:09.480 Certainly, as St. Paul said in Romans chapter 8, that all things work to the good for those who love God and are called according to his purpose.

00:01:17.360 So we ask you, Father, to continue to guide us, inspire us, lead us to where you would have us go,

00:01:23.440 so that we could serve you by serving your people, even unto martyrdom, red or white.

00:01:26.640 And we ask this grace, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

00:01:32.000 Amen. Amen.

00:01:34.100 It is good to talk to you, Father, on so momentous an occasion.

00:01:40.440 Let me get, first of all, your reaction when you saw the letter.

00:01:47.680 How was it delivered to you? You said it was by FedEx or something like that?

00:01:50.620 Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, it's a courtesy on such momentous things that you would do something in person,

00:02:00.400 and yet it was delivered, I think, in a rather cowardly way.

00:02:05.080 FedEx. I mean, what is that?

00:02:08.800 It's so typical of, you know, I'm a man, you know, and you do things in a manly way.

00:02:15.140 And that just was kind of cowardly, I'd say.

00:02:21.360 But that's how it came. There was a letter after Mass this morning.

00:02:24.320 I didn't know this.

00:02:26.480 Somebody was sitting in back and saw that there was a newspaper reporter there.

00:02:29.940 And I've since come to find out that this was discussed last night,

00:02:33.360 the final conclusions, which were reached but were not presented to me.

00:02:37.120 Obviously, this has been prepared for months by several different people whose input is in the document.

00:02:42.860 But you can see it. And so, but then it came as a surprise to me.

00:02:48.080 I thought if they were going to do something, it would be probably the end of the latter part of June

00:02:52.800 because the normal day for changing pastors is July 1st.

00:02:57.460 And yet it came today, as I said, by FedEx.

00:03:00.760 And on it, it says effective immediately.

00:03:03.420 So upon receipt, I guess.

00:03:05.560 Well, thank God I was here to even look at it or, you know, right.

00:03:09.040 Anyway, it came after Mass today.

00:03:10.800 And then all of a sudden, the news spread very, very quickly, as you know, you know.

00:03:15.120 And but I'm getting contacted from people all over the world.

00:03:19.760 Somebody called from Sydney, Australia.

00:03:21.900 That's how far it's.

00:03:23.480 I don't know how it gets so far so fast.

00:03:25.460 They called the office here today to talk to me and express their concerns.

00:03:31.960 So, you know, if we believe in the Eucharist, which we do, and we know it nourishes us and sustains us in all things.

00:03:43.260 And, you know, that is really one of the reasons why people sometimes think I get, like, shook up or upset.

00:03:49.100 And I'm thinking, well, you know, if you're not, if you're denying my child food, the food, the bread of life.

00:03:55.440 Well, if you're not upset about that, there was one of the great archbishops said, if it was Fulton J. Sheen, you know him.

00:04:01.520 And he said, listen, if you can't get angry about stuff like that, then you can't, you can't love either.

00:04:06.540 Because greater love has greater anger towards those things that are contrary to the salvation of our eternal souls, which is the only thing that matters in the end.

00:04:15.700 So, the, so, but St. Paul said all things work to the good.

00:04:20.920 And, and so even this somehow, some way, you know, you probably saw that picture where I was blessing all the people that came to pray when I was up on the roof at 7 p.m. at night on a Sunday when I was just dead tired.

00:04:32.360 And there's that rainbow in the dove land right over my head.

00:04:34.900 And I go, okay, thank you, Lord.

00:04:36.820 I wasn't expecting that.

00:04:38.140 You can't even ask for a sign like that.

00:04:39.720 But I said, okay, I guess I'm, I'm, I'm trying to do what you're asking me to do.

00:04:43.680 And, and we can expect this, you know, one of the covers, last week's bulletin cover had the martyrs who wouldn't even burn incense.

00:04:50.020 So they were burned alive for Nero's pleasure.

00:04:52.540 And those are the crazy Romans back then.

00:04:55.140 And then, of course, being fed to the lions.

00:04:56.940 So that is, you know, a mere letter in the mail delivered FedEx.

00:05:00.240 Well, that's pretty minor, I guess.

00:05:02.420 You know what considers me?

00:05:03.580 I don't care what they do to me.

00:05:04.700 Honestly, I don't care.

00:05:06.420 You know, if I get martyred in the end, well, so be it.

00:05:08.820 Like I always joke, it might be the only way I get to heaven.

00:05:10.880 What troubles me is the interference with the feeding of God's children, which is through word and through the sacrament, both of which were denied to people over the past 15 months.

00:05:26.600 And as I said, they haven't come forward yet and apologized for denied.

00:05:30.840 They have one job to do.

00:05:31.960 You've heard me say this.

00:05:33.140 I have one.

00:05:34.080 This is not rocket science.

00:05:35.280 They have one job to do, which is to feed the people and take care of their eternal souls, not worry about whether you or me, you or I get a cough and something that 99.95% or something of people under the age of 70 recover very nicely.

00:05:47.900 So what troubles me has nothing to do with me.

00:05:52.900 And if I seem angry at times, it has nothing to do with me.

00:05:57.300 It has to do with the people.

00:06:01.400 And I asked a question recently, how can they love?

00:06:08.400 Because I say, well, what kind of father wouldn't feed his child?

00:06:11.860 And somebody called me courageous.

00:06:13.340 And I think it was Lifesight News.

00:06:14.360 I think Jim Hale came and taught to me.

00:06:16.400 And right in the middle of the interview, it came to me.

00:06:18.120 This was just like a week ago.

00:06:19.760 I said, it's not courage.

00:06:21.680 It's love.

00:06:22.300 If you love, how can you not feed your children?

00:06:29.940 So when I look at the bishops that are so involved in this shutdown, cancel culture of the truth, they don't love.

00:06:39.520 They just can't love.

00:06:41.340 And that's really troublesome because God is love.

00:06:43.620 We learned that basic Baltimore catechism.

00:06:45.560 Who is God?

00:06:46.080 God is love.

00:06:48.220 So I guess, so I would hope that at least if somebody gets upset with me because they seem angry, that they realize that what is inspiring that anger is great love.

00:06:55.860 Love for the people that seems to be a love that seems so devoid in so many of the bishops of the church, which is, well, you know, one day they'll have to answer to that.

00:07:07.380 When I stand before our Lord and Savior, I'll say, listen, during that 15 months, I gave out over 70,000 holy communions on the tongue without a mask.

00:07:14.460 And I didn't fear not even the slightest in one of them.

00:07:17.200 So there you go.

00:07:18.020 Does that kind of bring you up to date, I guess?

00:07:20.720 I mean, it just happened today.

00:07:22.220 So it's all as new to me as it is to you.

00:07:26.320 Yeah, that's come out very clearly.

00:07:28.420 You are most disturbed and agitated by the harm to souls, really, of the ones, particularly those who are misled in the faith.

00:07:41.320 And that's what our Lord was vehement about as well.

00:07:44.520 He's the one who said, you know, if you mislead the little ones, it'll be better for you that a millstone be tied about your neck and be thrown into the sea.

00:07:52.420 That's the thing.

00:07:53.680 So if you can unpack this a little bit for us, what does it actually mean, what you were told in the letter?

00:08:00.120 First of all, what was the specifics you're denied, your faculties?

00:08:04.100 What does that mean for us?

00:08:07.260 Right.

00:08:07.700 So the first, there were two decrees.

00:08:10.580 One decree was to try to remove me as pastor, which I have canonical protections.

00:08:19.700 And it's going to be, and so we're appealing this.

00:08:21.600 Like you can appeal any decision in any court, just whether it's civil or canonical.

00:08:26.020 So we're appealing this.

00:08:27.060 And there's a process.

00:08:27.960 It goes through four separate appeals as you move along through the system.

00:08:31.020 It takes a little while for each one.

00:08:32.600 In the meantime, they'll have to appoint an administrator.

00:08:35.240 And indeed, that's what they're going to do.

00:08:38.320 And I found out who it is.

00:08:40.300 I don't know if I'm at liberty to say that just yet, but it's crazy because that person can't come for another couple weeks.

00:08:46.840 And so we have an 86-year-old retired priest who's going to be coming celebrating all the masses on Sunday, on Saturday, Sunday, I have five plus confessions.

00:08:57.020 I mean, what are these people thinking?

00:08:58.120 Why didn't they just wait to make this decision when that other pastor becomes available?

00:09:03.440 But they didn't.

00:09:03.960 They just, you know, I can't.

00:09:06.340 Anyway, so it just means that I'm still the pastor.

00:09:09.740 They can't remove you as pastor unless you, if you appeal it, unless you go, you know, until you go through the end of this appellate process, which can reverse the decision for different steps along the way.

00:09:20.160 So that's the pastor part.

00:09:21.380 So you're just not a pastor anymore.

00:09:23.900 The second thing has to do with faculties.

00:09:25.740 And this, how can I say this so it's polite?

00:09:29.040 It's diabolical because I can't celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of Mass publicly.

00:09:38.900 Part of it said, only with your two parents present.

00:09:43.560 But the, it can't celebrate marriages.

00:09:48.260 I'm already, people in the extraordinary form, the great community want me to celebrate their marriage here.

00:09:54.460 I think one's coming up here in the first week of August.

00:09:56.800 I think it was August 4th.

00:09:58.680 And so, so I'm asking for a clarification on that.

00:10:03.180 Are you telling me that I can't serve these people to whom I've committed the extraordinary form, the high mass extraordinary form?

00:10:09.900 There aren't many people around here that can do that, especially anybody that knows these families, as I do, that wanted me specifically to do this.

00:10:19.220 No baptisms?

00:10:20.460 What kind of mentality is that where you can't do a baptism?

00:10:24.960 It's incomprehensible to me.

00:10:27.620 But, you know, because I said, you know, down in Chicago, they weren't allowed to do any baptisms in the height of all this crazy.

00:10:35.120 So those are the faculties.

00:10:37.100 Those are what are called faculties.

00:10:38.200 So it's celebrating the mass publicly, baptisms, marriages, still hear confessions.

00:10:45.000 Well, a laicized McCarrick, can you believe this?

00:10:47.460 McCarrick, if there's somebody dying, he could actually hear that confession that counts because you're a priest forever.

00:10:53.580 And, but that wasn't one of the restrictions.

00:10:55.420 So that was okay.

00:10:56.660 And then it didn't say any restrictions on the anointing of the sick, which again, even a laicized McCarrick can do an anointing of the sick of the dying.

00:11:05.120 So what it just means is that there wouldn't be like a regular functioning thing where I would go into the parish, which is, of course, what they're trying to get me out of.

00:11:15.380 But, yeah, so that I think that's the best understanding, best way I can explain the faculties part.

00:11:23.560 But not only are they denying me and those hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of other canceled priests, like I just had lunch with one today who hasn't had an assignment in nine years because of what's going on down in Rockford.

00:11:34.400 That guy's a nightmare, that spawn of Rembert-Weakland, as you know.

00:11:39.820 It just means you can't, you won't have a regular parish family to serve, which is the heart of the parish priest.

00:11:46.760 I mean, that is our charism.

00:11:48.580 So in that sense, he's done something, I think, very evil.

00:11:53.580 Do they care?

00:11:54.180 See, here's the thing.

00:11:54.980 They don't care about me, and they don't care about, you know, we've had, I think it's close to 50 now, parishioners, families joined the parish in the last 15 months, I think it's 16 who have left.

00:12:05.520 We've tripled the amount who have left.

00:12:08.240 We've added triple that amount.

00:12:10.120 It's not even like, even two for one, it's three for one.

00:12:14.440 So they don't care about those people.

00:12:15.860 But throughout the globe, as you well know, that in Canada, it's a nightmare up there.

00:12:20.760 Remember, you saw that.

00:12:22.100 It wasn't even a priest.

00:12:23.060 It was a Protestant pastor.

00:12:24.180 The police are coming in trying to stop the service.

00:12:26.720 They don't care about the people.

00:12:28.160 Because if they did, they'd stand up to the government and say, your authority ends at my front door.

00:12:32.700 Because it does.

00:12:33.520 I'm not sure in Canada, but certainly in America, here in the United States.

00:12:37.280 So that really, we should find troubling, that they just don't care about your eternal soul.

00:12:46.600 And that I will never understand.

00:12:48.000 Because what is the point of being a priest?

00:12:49.740 My job is not to do social justice with people.

00:12:53.240 My job is to prepare their eternal souls to meet our Lord Jesus.

00:12:59.220 We've got one job to do, and that's it.

00:13:02.600 If I ever seem upset, it's because they're not doing their job.

00:13:05.540 And they aren't, obviously.

00:13:07.220 But you know what?

00:13:07.740 People all around the globe know this.

00:13:09.800 So that's the fact of this part.

00:13:11.520 He won't let me, like so many hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of other faithful priests who are just trying to do it right.

00:13:18.200 They won't let us serve the people.

00:13:20.040 Yeah.

00:13:20.380 It is an interesting perspective, because I think a lot of people, when they hear about, oh, Father Altman's been canceled by his bishop, they don't actually think of the families.

00:13:29.160 It's funny to hear you as a father.

00:13:31.720 You're a father, even though you're reaching the whole wide world.

00:13:34.640 I know that so many people during the lockdown relied on you as their priest in a way.

00:13:41.260 But you have a very specific attachment to your own personal family, as it were, in your parish.

00:13:48.580 Yes.

00:13:49.060 I remember talking to you about, you know, the support we gave you for, you know, the petition.

00:13:57.060 And it was funny, because you kept referencing how your people, the children in the parish, your children in the parish are so grateful.

00:14:03.740 And really bringing that home, that understanding home that, wait a minute, this priest is actually a father in a very kind of a real way to his own parishioners.

00:14:17.040 And it's the bishop is actually removing the father of these parishioners as well.

00:14:24.140 So anyway, it's an interesting perspective, Father.

00:14:27.800 A lot of people are going to be wondering about you, your future right now, your plans, your, you know, your, your state.

00:14:35.580 I mean, you don't, you don't seem like you're up in arms.

00:14:38.640 You don't seem despondent.

00:14:39.840 You don't seem, you know, what's, what's going on internally with you?

00:14:44.300 And what are you thinking about for the, for, for the future?

00:14:46.740 Yeah.

00:14:47.380 I've had, I've had incredible peace, regardless of what happens to me, just peace, because I said it this way, if this door closes, another one will open.

00:15:04.000 And certainly I've had that experience in my life.

00:15:05.760 If that's how we get prepared and practicing smaller doors open into bigger doors and then bigger doors closing and open up to even bigger doors.

00:15:16.080 I've had incredible peace about it.

00:15:18.120 And if, if we knew what, if we knew what was ahead of us, we might not want to go there.

00:15:25.000 So I'm not expecting God to give me some blinking neon sign that says, okay, this is where you're going to go next.

00:15:31.080 This is what you're going to do.

00:15:31.820 That's, that's not the way he works because then he, then we wouldn't be exercising our free will.

00:15:37.140 Um, I am open to, um, what, what I would, what I would always be open to and what I would hope would always come through, no matter what people think about my manner and tone, they would recognize that's what's coming through.

00:15:49.800 There is God's love, a love that I recognize, um, because he's loved me and I didn't deserve it.

00:15:58.160 And so, uh, so I, I would hope that in, in everything that I do as this point, as we go forward, whatever that is going to be, um, that it's, uh, will be a means, an expression of God's love working through me, uh, which is what it always should be.

00:16:16.460 And, and, and like I said, that's what a father does, isn't it?

00:16:19.320 He loves his children.

00:16:20.440 So he, he serves them.

00:16:22.380 He sacrifices for them.

00:16:24.220 He gets up in the morning, goes to work for them.

00:16:27.240 Uh, he puts food on the table for them, uh, which is what a priest does at the altar, isn't it?

00:16:32.080 The bread of life.

00:16:32.780 Um, so in whatever capacity, uh, whether it be, um, through theological speaking, through, uh, through just compassion, speaking of, of the compassion of Jesus for his people and how he's drawing them to him through bonds of love, through cords of love.

00:16:48.640 I hope that's what, what the future holds.

00:16:50.880 And, and, but I'm very much at peace, um, because it gets, yeah, there's a, isn't it that there's a kind of a funny little prayer that goes, uh, grant me to accept the things I cannot change.

00:17:04.100 So there's something like that, right?

00:17:05.820 There's a funny one where you throw a wine into there too.

00:17:08.140 Give me wine for the things that I can't change.

00:17:10.580 Something like that.

00:17:11.540 But, um, so I'm at peace.

00:17:17.380 Yeah.

00:17:17.540 What's, uh, a lot of the suffering that you have been put through right now is because of your bishop.

00:17:26.060 What are your feelings toward, or what's your attitude toward your bishop right now?

00:17:31.820 Yeah.

00:17:33.800 I, you know, I said it from day one that, uh, I give him credit as one of the very, very few who let us at least have some people come into church.

00:17:45.560 I've also, to his face.

00:17:47.880 And so it's not like I don't stab him in the back.

00:17:50.160 I've told him right to his face.

00:17:51.820 How dare you only let nine people come into church when a thousand can go into Walmart and keep the abortuaries open, et cetera.

00:17:58.220 Pot stores, liquor stores, only nine people in the cathedral across.

00:18:02.240 So he knows, I, I don't, and I don't think he, I think, I think he maybe felt guilty.

00:18:08.340 And then I said that as he should have, because it is a disgrace to your office.

00:18:15.060 You know, uh, listen, I haven't, um, for him or anybody, any other bishop that whose names even I sometimes mention, I don't bring disgrace or discredit you.

00:18:24.320 You do it yourself.

00:18:25.200 I just talk about it.

00:18:26.200 Right.

00:18:26.720 If you didn't do what you did, I'd have nothing to say.

00:18:29.620 If you would feed your people, I would not have to complain about the fact that you weren't feeding your people.

00:18:34.340 Right.

00:18:34.820 So I just talk about it and they're all mad about this because it, it implicates them.

00:18:39.240 It convicts them, uh, for their own failure.

00:18:42.900 Well, uh, so as to my own bishop, I see, again, I have to give him credit.

00:18:47.000 He said specifically that I speak the undeniable truth.

00:18:51.820 This doesn't like the manner and tone.

00:18:53.360 Well, neither do like people like soup itch, you know, blaze soup itch or Wilton Gregory, or what's it?

00:18:59.440 Joseph Tobin, the Cardinal Newark.

00:19:01.480 They, they don't like my manner and tone.

00:19:04.380 Cause I call them up for their utter and complete failure to serve their people, to, to, to fulfill their duty.

00:19:08.640 What did, what did Jesus say?

00:19:10.260 You can't get good fruit from a bad tree and bad trees produce bad fruit.

00:19:15.360 Well, look what they've done at what point here's the, here's the condemning.

00:19:18.260 These are facts that you can't argue with 80% of Catholics.

00:19:22.480 Now don't go to mass.

00:19:23.460 80% of Catholics pretty much don't believe in the real presence.

00:19:26.320 And so I said, at what point are they going to say, Hey, we're not doing, we're not doing our job.

00:19:32.280 Those are, those are objective criteria that show you you're not doing your job.

00:19:36.160 They get mad when I say it.

00:19:37.700 Well, you know, there, what there's the proof argue with the proof and, and they can't.

00:19:44.060 So, yeah, no, in your, in your mass, in the mass, you normally pray for the bishop.

00:19:49.080 Uh, will you continue to pray for him even though he's done this to you?

00:19:53.280 Yeah.

00:19:54.340 What did you, well, I don't think I even have a choice in that matter.

00:19:56.980 Do I, I would have to pray for Bishop Callahan and I would like to think he's praying for me.

00:20:02.440 I would like to think so anyway.

00:20:06.140 See, it is, it is quite the thing right from Calvary where our Lord prayed, uh, father, forgive them for they know not what they're doing.

00:20:12.800 Yeah.

00:20:13.540 Yes.

00:20:13.900 Uh, up to the present moment where someone does something to harm you and not only you, but, but in a way your spiritual children to still pray for them is, is quite, it's quite something.

00:20:26.320 Um, it's, it's, it's not easy because sometimes you just want to not even not just pray.

00:20:31.700 You know, I never wish you all right on him.

00:20:34.240 I couldn't, how could I, um, but to actually pray that good things happen.

00:20:39.000 Um, there, there is a difference between hoping bad things happen, which I never do, but, uh, but also praying that good things happen.

00:20:46.400 Maybe, you know, if he changes his heart, um, I will say in this decree that it's in there somewhere, uh, he wants me to go on a 30 day retreat.

00:20:56.220 Okay, let's say I'd love to go on a 30 day retreat at any point, because there's no time because I'm sacrificing myself with the family, uh, but, but to, to change my heart, listen, buddy, Bishop Callahan, if you're listening, 70,000 plus Holy Communions on the tongue without a mask.

00:21:17.280 Do you want me to change that heart?

00:21:19.140 The heart that loved his family so much that he would, he would do that.

00:21:23.360 He would make sure he would.

00:21:24.860 Are you kidding me?

00:21:26.880 I just, yeah, no, you don't, you don't want me to change my heart, Bishop, because I have the heart of a priest.

00:21:32.600 Why would he ever want me to change my heart?

00:21:35.120 I'll tell you, he's already should be praying to have changes.

00:21:37.220 All those, those priests that, that didn't even when they could have, when he gave that, like that, that you could have nine, including yourself.

00:21:44.480 There were still some that wouldn't let people in.

00:21:46.940 Hey, Bishop Callahan, pray that they change their heart.

00:21:51.580 Send them on a 30-day retreat about what it means to be a father, to feed their children.

00:21:56.260 I can't, you see how preposterous it is?

00:21:58.320 I mean, how can you argue with something like that?

00:22:00.700 And he wants, he wants me to change my heart.

00:22:02.720 Oh, you know what?

00:22:03.640 If I hope, uh, well, like, like Archbishop Fulton Sheen said, you know, if you've lost that capacity to, to love that deeply, you will lose the capacity to hate the sins so deeply.

00:22:13.780 And that's nothing but sinful, to not do your job that you were ordained to do.

00:22:19.100 Yeah.

00:22:19.780 Sorry, maybe that, did that answer the question or was I just rambling?

00:22:22.780 Yeah.

00:22:23.160 No, that does it, Father.

00:22:25.040 If you could, uh, as, as you part, give us your, uh, a blessing, um, and, um, and any final words you might have.

00:22:33.720 All right.

00:22:34.360 Well, the final words that I always say, uh, get to the Eucharist.

00:22:37.780 Eucharist, find a parish where you can get to the Eucharist without which you do not have life within you.

00:22:43.480 And that is fundamental.

00:22:45.040 You cannot change that.

00:22:46.720 Yeah.

00:22:47.340 They tried to when they said, you can't come to church.

00:22:50.420 Oh no.

00:22:51.340 The Eucharist is not essential.

00:22:52.820 Just do a spiritual communion.

00:22:53.980 No, go find the Holy Eucharist.

00:22:56.600 You must have him within you.

00:22:58.860 Uh, and, and to deny that, actually you're a heretic.

00:23:01.580 If you, if you deny that truth, it's just so basic.

00:23:05.080 So get to the Holy Eucharist, uh, spend time before the Holy Eucharist.

00:23:10.240 Uh, it is the way, the only way, uh, Jesus said that, not me.

00:23:14.400 So my prayer then in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, amen.

00:23:19.420 Heavenly Father, let the people see those doors that are open to them.

00:23:24.840 Those doors that through which they can come and receive the grace they need to sustain themselves in this life.

00:23:31.740 And in the trials that are coming for it, it is only going to get worse.

00:23:36.340 Nurse them and sustain them now so that they can be, as I said before, witnesses of their faith.

00:23:41.140 And we ask this grace in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

00:23:45.300 Amen.

00:23:45.940 Amen.

00:23:47.240 Thank you for being with us, Father Altman.

00:23:49.180 And be assured.

00:23:49.720 You're welcome.

00:23:50.380 Thank you.

00:23:50.820 Be assured of our prayers and the prayers of many, many, many thousands of faithful for you, for your ministry, ongoing ministry.

00:23:59.100 And, uh, we look forward to seeing what the good Lord has in store for you in these coming months.

00:24:03.500 Can I say one more quick thing before you go?

00:24:05.860 Okay.

00:24:06.600 It's that, it, it, now that I apparently am going to have more free time, there's no such thing.

00:24:11.880 Uh, I hope to be able to better express my thanks to all of life sites, all that you have done for me, the, the prayers that you have sustained me with, the, the gifts that come in, that, all that, that donation thing that is going to help pay for not just me, but for other persecuted priests to defend themselves.

00:24:31.320 I can't thank you enough, and, but I hope to have, at least thank you more, had time to do that.

00:24:37.600 So thank you for your patience so far, even as I struggled to, to answer all the guards and letters, but I'm working on it.

00:24:44.900 And now apparently I'll have more time to do so.

00:24:46.780 Thank you.

00:24:47.940 God bless you, Father.

00:24:49.720 God bless you too.

00:24:50.560 And God bless all of you.

00:24:51.800 We'll see you next time.

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