Knights of Saint John Paul II Serve Queen Heaven And Her Army
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Join the Knights of John Paul II as they take back their towns! Daniel Potvin, the founder of this movement, joins us on this episode of the John Hunter Weston Show to talk about the importance of the movement.
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He was in the Marine Corps. He said, have you ever heard of the 40 percenters? And I said, no.
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What's that? He said, well, when you're injured bad or tired, whatever the situation is where
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you're at the point that you want to give up, you are only at 40 percent of what you can deal with.
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Hello, my friends. I think I've said it before. I'll say it again.
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One of the most important things that you can do to take back your town, your families for Jesus and
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Mary, is the work of a new group of knights called the Knights of John Paul II. What I love about it
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is it's such an easy program. It's basically nothing but men getting together once a week to pray.
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But importantly, the difference is they're not just sitting somewhere praying together. Nope.
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They're actually walking around their town in twos, open carry, rosary out, and praying the Holy
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Rosary to take back their towns for Jesus and Mary. It is so needed. We're going to get into that
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with the founder of this movement, Daniel Potvin, on this episode of the John Hunter Weston Show.
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Let's begin as we always do with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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So, Daniel, this is a great movement that's sort of spreading all over the place.
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We took it up here about some six months ago now, and we've had a faithful crew of guys
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walking around our town, including in our extremely cold weather. We had negative 26
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last week, and the guys were out in force. We had six guys. We walk in twos, so we do different
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areas of our town, encircling them. I just want to say how I came to this. When you first came to me
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about this, it was very providential, because you sent me this stuff in the mail, and honestly,
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I get a lot of stuff in the mail. And I took a brief look at it, and I was thinking, oh, that's
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a neat program, particularly in its simplicity, because it was so awesomely simple. Basically,
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men getting together, a new order of knights, if you will, and they're walking around their towns
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in twos, very biblical, praying the Holy Rosary, the most important activity you can probably do,
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even that. I was like, wow, that's a good idea. But the commitment wasn't there. But when I realized
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what was going on in our town anyway, we had two drag shows. We had the hospital closed down the
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Catholic chapel. We had the town hall decide to fly the gay pride flag for June. We had people asking
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to start a Muslim mosque. What in the world is going on? We obviously need to take back our town
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for Jesus and Mary. And then everybody has problems with their families. And so the program was so
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beautiful. I knew it was providential. It was very providential. It came to me right at that time.
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And so thank you for sending it. We've been faithfully doing it. It's an awesome program, Daniel.
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You guys down here are hearing about it. You guys are definitely tougher than us down here. The
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weather's a bit more fridges up there. But maybe we can toughen up and stay up to speed with our
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Canadian brothers. It's only one hour. So it's a one hour commitment once a week. And it's just guys.
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And guys aren't big. I don't know if any of you ladies out there, when you get together,
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you talk a lot. Guys get together. Talking is not such a big deal. We talk about sports and what's
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going on that way. This is actually much more productive. We give each other high fives when
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we show up. And we pray. The program's so simple. You pray outside the front of the church or one of
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the local churches where you're at. You ask the heavenly army to come down and join you. And then
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you walk for the rest of the hour. At our group, we say at least 15 decades of the Holy Rosary,
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sometimes 20 if we can get there. Most of the time we can't because in that one hour time slot doesn't
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work. Absolutely beautiful. And the camaraderie is there, even though we don't talk that much
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other than the praying together. I think it's just incredible.
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There's a lot of aspects that I didn't see when I first founded it, but reclaiming your town and
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trusting your town to our king and queen, reclaiming it for Jesus and Mary. You're walking
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through your town and you notice things you wouldn't notice sitting in your house watching
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the ball game. A lot of us don't get out much anymore. You see the new shop set open up. This
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opens up and it's like, what's this doing in my town? And I think that's important is taking ownership,
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right? We name our town. Jesus is king of everything and Mary's queen of heaven and earth. So our towns
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belong to Jesus and Mary automatically. And we're their sons and daughters. So that means we're princes and
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princesses in a sense, right? And, and so that town is mine. It's my king's town. It's my town as well.
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And, and that ownership I think is important. We, we think of it more on a, on a country basis.
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You know, this is my country, but our towns have been overrun. I mean, unless you're in Medjugorje,
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good chance your town has been overrun and somebody's got to, you know, I'll quote Father Hellman,
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you know, somebody's got to step into the breach and, and start pushing back. And I'm not saying
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this is the end all be all. There's other ways to fight, but this is a great way to fight against
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the forces that are, are pushing up against us and taking over the place. Um, you might say it's a
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beginning, right? Everything begins with prayer, that prayer and that ownership. And you know,
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the rosary is the most powerful weapon we have. We all know that. Um, and yeah, we could meet and
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we could even go in front of the blessed sacrament and I'm sure that would be powerful, but walking on
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the street, that public, that public witness. And, uh, then of course, you, you know, calling the
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heavenly army, that's just, you know, we, we've got a force behind us that it's a force to be reckoned
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with. And, uh, I put a lot of hope and trust in that. Let's take a look at that. This was the
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prayer that, uh, you composed over, over a long time, uh, and, uh, and with the help of spiritual
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direction, of course, but it's an amazing little prayer. Uh, when we were in Rome, uh, we had the
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occasion to, uh, pray that prayer together. Let's take a look at that.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. We entrust Rome
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to the sacred heart of Jesus and the immaculate heart of Mary. We claim this city for Jesus,
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King of all nations, and our Queen, Our Lady of Guadalupe. We repent of all the ways which
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we have allowed evil to infiltrate our city and our families. And we resolve to take our city
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and our families back. So we join together today to drive out all the demons and evil from Rome.
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Because we are small and weak, we call upon Our Lady of Guadalupe, the woman clothed with the sun,
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who does battle with the dragon, to go before us and lead us. We call upon Saint Joseph,
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terror of demons, to go beside us. We call upon Saint Michael, the archangel, to arise now,
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come with your sword, and bring all the angels of heaven to join us and to drive all the demons
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and evil out of our city. We call upon all the saints in heaven to join us now and to aid us in
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battle. We also call upon all you souls in purgatory to join us now and be with us today in this battle.
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And lastly, we call upon you, John Paul II, and company to be with us now and pray for us and help us
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to drive the enemies of Christ out of our city.
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And so now we would join in the Holy Rosary, praying as they do. The only differences in the Holy Rosary
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are after each decade, you pray the Oh My Jesus Prayer, in addition to the Come Holy Spirit Prayer,
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and the Saint Michael Prayer, and also before each mystery, ask for a particular grace in each decade.
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The power that's there, the power of the Most Holy Rosary, is incredible.
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The idea of walking around your town, of encircling where you are trying to protect,
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is actually very historical, at least in the divine sense. We all know the story of Jericho and the
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march around the Jericho walls that brought down the walls and really conquered the city for God's
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people. That's sort of like what we're doing here. But also, there's another concept because
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we don't want to destroy the walls of our town. We want to destroy the strongholds of Satan around
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our town. But also, we have this beautiful story from France, Our Lady of the Ribbon, it's called,
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where Our Lady basically encircles the town with a ribbon and in there protected them from the plague.
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So, the idea of walking around, encircling your town with prayer is very powerful. We know that
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guards who are guarding places do the rounds of the place. Sometimes they'll go in twos.
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And we are called to be soldiers, soldiers for Christ. And that's why I think this movement for men,
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this new movement of knights, it's incredible. Men being called together to defend their towns and
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their families and to literally, rosary in hand, weapon in hand, to encircle the town in all of its
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I'm always amazed. Almost every week, afterwards, I'll be like,
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Lord, I don't deserve to be with this group of men. These guys are like all fighters, warriors,
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it's humbling in a sense. You know, we're not a big group here. If everybody showed up,
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we might have 8, 10, 12 guys. What's happened in our area is, you know, I may show up and I may have
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problems, right? And this guy might have dealt with it two years ago. So, there's a lot of that
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that happens also. You know, like, you could say, you know, counseling of each other, giving advice
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and whatnot. And we all have days we're done. We all have, actually, our guys have been getting beat
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up pretty good the last four years. And so, to have that support group, you know, that's kind of a fruit
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that's come out of it that I didn't really anticipate. You know, I didn't think it would
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spread like it is. In the back of my mind, I envisioned in the beginning, I'm like, well,
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there should be at least two nights in every town across the globe. At least two men heading out with
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the army, you know, praying for their town and their families and the officials and everything.
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Um, but now it's actually taking off and, and, uh, it's very exciting.
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In, in, in terms of it taking off, we have, there's a website, knightsofjohnpolasecond.org.
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Please go there and sign up so that you can keep up to date on what's going on. Um, you'll be able
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to find out who in your town is doing it. If there's nobody, you start it. All you need is one
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other guy to at least start. Um, in our town, we typically, we have about, yeah, we have about the same
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number. If everybody came, whoever came, we'd have about a 10 or so, but we have a number of routes
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around town, which are very important. One encircles the high school, one, one of the grade
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school goes to either end of the town, East to West. Um, the other, another route around the main
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parish in the town, which encompasses the hospitals of, uh, excuse me, encompasses the, the town center
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and so on. But we'd like to do another route, uh, to encircle the hospital as well. These things
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provide spiritual protection. And it's a very real battle. And we don't think we're anything
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special in doing it. We're emissaries, um, of our lady praying her most holy rosary. That's what's
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going to do the power. Um, we like to be, um, like the, the proverbial donkey or, or a mule carrying our
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lady to Elizabeth, the queen of the heavenly armies is the one who's going to act to take
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back our town for Jesus and Mary. And we, by going around with her weapon, wielding it just by praying.
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And yes, we have all the, you know, there's distractions when we pray, there's all sorts of
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things, but we're trying to be faithful to it. And it is, Daniel, I think very true inspiration of the
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Holy Spirit from you for the world. Beautiful thing. Um, because it's just so encouraging, um,
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to know you're doing activism. You're doing real activism for your town in the most powerful way
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possible. You might be led from there to run for town council, to go present to, to the school board,
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to do whatever it is you're called to do, but it will stem from that inspiration. And from that
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activity you're doing for Christ every week here, we do it at, um, 8 AM. Our mass is at 10 30. So
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we're able to go to mass, get back from mass so we can get up our, uh, wives and children to help
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them get ready to get to the 10 30 mass. So we want to do that, especially for the young fathers who
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there's still a lot of little kids to, to shuffle off to mass. So that's a, it's an absolutely great
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thing. Daniel, I wanted to ask you about your inspiration, uh, for this, especially that coming
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from the 1972, uh, statements of the Holy Father of John Paul II. John Paul II, he did prophetic
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words in Philadelphia. He wasn't a Pope. Yeah. He would, he was Carol Wattita, the Cardinal. Um,
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and he prophesied that the world was entering into the final confrontation. This was not 1976,
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almost 50 years ago, 48 years ago. And he said, final confrontation between the church and the
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anti-church, between the gospel and the anti-gospel, between Christ and the antichrist. Now, back in 1976,
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that there were signs of all that, but today, if we can't see it today, it's on, and it's unrolling
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fast right now. Even secular people with no faith can see something is up. The verse that hit me
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while I was writing this in, in the late summer of 2019, it was the reading from Luke's gospel.
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You know, the, the Lord had sent the 72 out and when they, in pairs of two, and when they came back,
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they were all boasting, you know, we were driving out demons. We're healing people. We're all these
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wonderful deeds in our Lord. Paraphrasing, you know, says that's nothing. Whoa. I have given you
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the power to tread upon serpents and scorpions in the full force of the enemy and no harm will befall
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you. So the following week while I was working and that drilled into my head during mass, I kept
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going back to the missile, which I never do. And I kept rereading that. Then when I got outside the
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church, I'm everybody, I saw him like, did you hear that? Did you hear that? We've been given that
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power. And in everybody's looking at me, like I got like three heads, you know, this guy's nuts.
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Um, but I reflected on it the following week at work. What's the full force of the enemy
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in, in all of, you know, from Genesis to the end of revelation and, and what I came up with,
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and I'm no theologian, but I came up with the, you know, the brain of the antichrist.
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God's given us a power to tread on that, right? Because in another spot in scripture,
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I think it's in revelation who can fight against the beast. And it's a question. Well, the reality
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is I can, you can, any baptized Catholic confirmed Catholic in a state of grace has been given that
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power to see that God chose to put me in this time, put you in this time, have us born here.
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We get to fight against this because it is breathing down on us.
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It is indeed. You know, it's so fascinating that you came up with this at the end of summer,
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2019, right before we were to go into COVID lockdowns, the world economic forum, controlling
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our lives forever and ever. It's stunning. It was like our Lord was preparing an army of his own
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right before the forces of evil were to hit like never before. It's also fascinating what you brought
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up about our Lord sending them out in twos. And here, this is the program. The program of the
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Knights is to gather, yes, to, to call in the heavenly army to join us, but then to go out in twos,
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to go out in twos with our weapon, the Most Holy Rosary, and to wield that weapon all over our
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towns to take our towns back for Jesus and Mary. Absolutely fascinating. And you're totally right.
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That battle between our Lord and the Christ and the Antichrist, 1976, I said 1972 by accident before,
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but it's interesting because it's also repeated in the letter that Sister Lucia gave to Cardinal
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Kefara. Sister Lucia, the seer of Fatima who survived beyond her cousins, the statement there
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from Our Lady was that it's the final battle between our Lord and the reign of Satan would
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be over marriage and the family. And so there's a direct correlation to that vision from Our Lady
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and the message from John Paul or Carol Voitia while he was still Archbishop in 1976. And it's so
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interesting that it, it works so well with the Knights of John Paul II, how it's also about taking back
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our families for Christ. And I know that today it's impossible. It seems humanly impossible to raise
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your children in such a way that they maintain the faith because they are fed everything. It was
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bad enough 25 years ago when, when porn was, you know, ubiquitous, but you still had to go somewhere
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to get it. Now it comes to you. Every child is exposed to it. It seems impossible, just like it seems
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impossible to fight Antichrist because he'd have everything at his disposal. The brains, if you will,
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of Satan, the, all of the tech, imagine fighting someone who has access to all of Google's data and
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the data from your own phone. They know everything about you. The, the potential for taking you down
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is, it seems like child's play for him. And yet, as you say, we're given the means to fight him
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with our Lord, with the Holy Sacrifice, the Mass, Mass with the Holy Rosary. Just an incredible thing.
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I was just on retreat last weekend for three days with the Maronite monks in Petersham, Massachusetts.
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And there's one of the monks we always talk quite a bit. And he had never, the last time I was there
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two, three months ago, he had never heard of how the saints of old long to live in these times.
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They, they, they wish they could live in the times you and I are gifted to be in. He had never heard
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of that. So I said, well, start with St. Louis de Montfort, look that up. And, and so this visit,
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he, he was like all excited. And, and he's like, yeah, he's like the times are, he, he knows what's
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going on in the world is almost as much as you do. Um, even though he's a monk, he's the kind of the
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head person that meets all the guests and stuff. The graces afforded us in these times are huge
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because of the times we're in. And, and, and Rofus St. Louis said, you know, the saints of the later
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times would, would dwarf the cedars of Lebanon. As I've often said, the, the graces are there for
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the asking. We have the scriptures that tell us where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more.
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And we've got more sin. There's no argument there. More sin today than ever before in human history.
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Anybody ever says, oh, it was much worse before we had blah, blah, blah. Tell them this.
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Our lady said in Fatima, more souls go to hell because of sins of the flesh, sins of impurity
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than for any other reason. Think about this. There are more people who today are addicted to
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pornography that watch it regularly than there were people alive in 1917 when our lady said that.
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It's incredible. You know, I think a lot of people are going to be interested because you were inspired
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to, to, to, to start this movement. Also from Lord of the Rings. What was that?
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My two sons, when they were five and seven, when the movie came out, they're like, yeah, dad, we got to
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watch this, right? It's pretty violent movie, but my boys were, you know, already, you know, into all that
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stuff. And, and I watched it the first time and then, and I ended up getting addicted to it. To be
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honest with you, I ended up doing the whole six part Catholic course by Joseph Pierce on Lord of the
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Rings. Peter Kreef spoke at the college, a couple of towns over and listened to his talk. The Catholic
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faith is all in there, but the, the characters in it, they just want to fight against this evil.
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And it, it inspired me. Now, okay. You could say the prayer to summon the army. Part of that comes
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from the Lord of the Rings. When Aragon goes into the mountain and, and calls the souls of the dead
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to join his army. It wasn't fully there when I was writing about the, you know, setting up the nights
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and is, as time goes, I see that this fellowship in the movie, this, and they're all volunteers.
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To fight against the greatest evil, right? Sauron's trying to, who represents the devil. He trying to
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take over the world that here's where we are, but this fellowship, nine members, they're all volunteers.
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And over time, I, I began to see our, our group going out every week. We've got our own fellowship
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in our town. And so there's similarities. I also think Lord of the Rings, and I haven't heard
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Peter Kreeft or Joseph Pierce talk about it, but I believe he may not have even intended it,
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but it's very prophetic. Everything about that movie is happening right now. We are living real time.
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The Lord of the Rings, darkness is enveloping the earth. Our little fellowship in my town,
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your town, right? We're going out and we're like, Hey, you know, look at the hobbits are not even
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trained to fight and they're dying to fight in this battle. And I consider myself one of the hobbits,
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you know, or the little people, the, the lay people that was foremost on their mind. Is it?
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I just want to fight. I want to fight against this evil. You know, what was Sam's line?
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There's still some good in this world and it's worth fighting for. So yeah, I mean,
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there's so many lines and quotes that inspire me from that movie.
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It is very true too. The hobbits don't know how to fight
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because the odds against them are so overwhelming. It's almost ridiculous, but that's our situation.
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Our situation is that you can think about it any way you wish, monetarily, in terms of the leadership
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that's there, in terms of the smarts that the, the men of evil have in terms of their connections,
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in terms of their ability to manipulate even governments and the laws and the military and so
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on. It seems an absolutely insurmountable force against us. And yet we're called like the hobbits
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to do the little things. We're told and we trust that the Holy Rosary is our weapon. We know that the
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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is the most important thing, the most powerful thing on earth. It's a beautiful,
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beautiful comparison. Also, I noticed behind you there, you have St. Joan of Arc and I understand that
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she was an inspiration for you as well. Yeah. So St. Joan is kind of creeping her way into,
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into the Knights. For some reason, when I, when I started the Knights, I bought a banner of St. Joan
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and me and two of the Knights, we ended up going down to the big Rosary rally in DC with the Eucharistic
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Recession. And I had already known Sister Didi at that point. She was going to introduce me to
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Father Heilman. And, and, uh, so we go down, we drive all night long. I had just buried my father
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on my property the day before we left at 11 o'clock at night, um, drove all the way to DC.
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And afterwards we went up to Sister Didi. We said, you know, we'd like a picture or yeah,
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you hold, we'll hold the banner in front of you, St. Joan of Arc's banner. We take the picture and then,
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you know, just this thought came into my mind. Well, give her the banner because she's got the
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spirit of St. Joan of Arc, the warrior spirit. I gave it to her. I gave it to her. And, and then,
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so we don't have the banner anymore. Well, last year I was down at the Divine Mercy Shrine
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and one of the brothers, Brother John, he came up to me with a bag all wrapped up and he gave me
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this. He said, don't open it until you get home. And, uh, there was a note in there and it said,
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this is for the Knights of JP too. St. Joan will be your mascot. Okay. I don't know if I like the term
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mascot. She's another one of our patrons, but this weekend, past weekend, when I was on retreat,
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I finally started a book I've been looking at for like a year now, St. Joan of Arc by Mark Twain.
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Okay. And in the introduction, Mark Twain spent 10 years researching before he wrote this.
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And in his mind, it's his favorite book and it's his best book. He says, he didn't know our blessed
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mother cause he wasn't Catholic, but he said nobody had the virtue of St. Joan. But in the intro,
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one of the people involved in the, in the proceedings, he was quoted as saying that Joan of Arc would be more
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influential in the later days than in her time in France.
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So that was the first night I was on retreat and I'm pondering that. And I'm thinking, I'm like,
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how could that be? I mean, she, she inspired a whole nation of men to go fight against some
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overwhelming odds. Let's face it, the British army sister Didi, when, when I would text her and I'm
00:30:12.140
like something big's going on, you know, I got this interview with John Henry and I'm nervous,
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you know, and she, she'd text me back and she'd say, you know, Dan, you were born for these times.
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And I'm like, where does that come from? Well, that's a quote of Joan of Arc.
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We're in Rome in November for your conference, the Rome Life Forum. Four of the speakers
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mentioned that you were born for these times. And the truth is we're all born for these times
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because God put us here, but she's popping up more and more in that sense. Just that quote is
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spreading all over. I see it on podcasts all the time. Everybody's using it. And who's behind that
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quote? St. Joan. I think she's very dear. I mean, I've, I've, I've been thinking about it the last few
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days. It's like, we know this battle. Our general is a blessed mother, right? But God isn't like jealous of
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saints. I think Joan has a, a very important role. She inspired men like nobody else.
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She inspires me, you know? I mean, I grew up with, uh, two movies as a kid. Every year, my family,
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we got seven, seven kids in my family. Um, we'd watch a sound of music and we'd watch Ingrid Bergman,
00:31:32.980
Jonah Berg. Oh, interesting. Two of my favorite movies. Well, I watched it.
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I'll watch it every year or twice a year, you know, and St. Joan does inspire men.
00:31:46.420
Indeed. Let's ask that she inspires lots of men to, uh, join the Knights of John Paul II.
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Uh, once again, if you, you haven't signed up yet for Knights of John Paul II, please go to the link
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you'll see here in the video and in the description, uh, to sign up for the Knights and encourage people.
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If there's no Knights chapter in your town yet, encourage your friends to join you, even at least
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one to start. But, um, it's time to take back your towns, your families for Jesus and Mary.
00:32:14.460
Finally, um, I wanted to ask you, Daniel, about, uh, your logging accident, uh, in 2021. I think that
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will also help to explain, uh, how you got to where you're at.
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There's a couple important points to this. So I was two miles back in the woods,
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uh, broke my leg, both bones in one leg. Um, took me three hours to get out of the woods.
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Now the thing with both bones broken in your leg, it was late November. It was late in the day.
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It was getting cold. Um, so after the accident, I knew my body was in shock. I've had other bad
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accidents. I knew I was going hyperthermic. It took me forever. You know, I cut off the sleeves of my
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jacket, tied them together. I made some kind of funny sling so I could crawl on the ground.
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The pain isn't bad until the bones grind together. Okay. And when the bones grind together,
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shoots up to about a nine on the, on the pain level scale. And, and what I found was it hurt so bad.
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I, I, I put my head on the ground. I was crawling anyway. I'd straighten my leg out till the pain
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subsided. And then I was tempted to just fall asleep. And that's what hypothermia. It's very
00:33:31.340
peaceful. You just fall asleep. This thought would come into my mind. I'm like, I could just fall
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asleep. I'm pretty sure I'm in a state of grace. I've got a nice life insurance policy. My family
00:33:41.920
will be fine. This thought crept into my mind while I was laying there. And it said, if you die now,
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you're going to miss the biggest battle the world's ever seen. And I'd pick my head up and I'd say,
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St. Joseph, St. Michael helped me to keep going. And I keep crawling because my machine was about
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a hundred yards from me up the hill. And I had to get to that. That probably happened 15, 20 times
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where I was tempted to give up. I get home three days later from the hospital. You know, it wasn't
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a, it was during COVID, no bitter visitors, anything. And I couldn't sleep. I'm up at four
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o'clock in the morning, the first morning. And my future son-in-law, he was engaged to my daughter.
00:34:22.940
He was visiting from New Hampshire. He was in the Marine Corps and they were up early to make breakfast.
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And this is the important point is I told them the story. He was in the Marine Corps. He said,
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have you ever heard of the 40 percenters? And I said, no, what's that? He said, well,
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they've studied for decades in the Marine Corps. And when you're injured bad or tired or
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whatever the situation is where you're at the point that you want to give up,
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and this is key, you are only at 40 percent of what you can deal with. I'm like, really? I said,
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if I would have known that before the accident, I would have been like, you wimp. Let's just get
00:35:09.520
on with it. You're only at 40 percent. And I tell this to people a lot because I think the times we're
00:35:16.840
heading into, a lot of us are going to find ourselves, I'll probably find myself at that point
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again. And to have knowledge that you're only at 40 percent and you can keep going. I think that's
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an important point these days. And, you know, it could be psychological. It could be a number of
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different things, areas that you're tagged at and you're just like, I'm at the end of my rope me and
00:35:40.940
I can't go. And the reality is you're only at 40 percent. It's an amazing thing what grace does.
00:35:48.260
We are called to be Marines. We're called to be Marines for our Lord and for our Lady. And we
00:35:54.820
all feel ill-equipped for this task. But it's neat that graces are there. You know, Lent is a really
00:36:04.080
neat time of grace. The day before Lent starts, you've been trying to, you know, do some regular
00:36:11.860
fasting or, you know, not eat too much chocolate or, or, or if you're into, you know, having a drink
00:36:18.260
or whatever, not doing so excessively and whatever. It's like so tough. It's almost impossible.
00:36:26.500
Lent comes and it's like, oh yeah, because psychologically you've got to do it. So now you
00:36:32.840
just do it. But what was that? I'm sure there's a grace that I'm absolutely, there's a grace there,
00:36:38.860
but it's also psychological that, you know, now's the time you just got to do it. And there's no,
00:36:43.740
there's no more excuse. You can't just do whatever anymore. So the grace is there. And as the Marine
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said, you're only at 40%. You can do so much more. And there's so much more doesn't involve all the
00:36:59.820
time adding extra things. If, if you're already full, like my priest said, if, you know, these
00:37:05.860
young parents with tons of kids, you might feel like, you know, you're going absolutely crazy.
00:37:10.800
You don't have time for anything to blow your nose, let alone to, to do some more yet. You can still
00:37:16.320
work on that rosary. And the Knights of John Paul II, I think is such a beautiful movement that takes
00:37:24.440
so little time, but is so rewarding. One aspect before we close, I have to say this one other
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thing. It really does make you brothers with your brothers who, who engage with you in the Knights.
00:37:40.520
The camaraderie, the aspect of being true brothers in faith, which is, which is actually thicker than
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blood is real. Even though, as I said, there's not much talk. It's, you know, there is a little bit,
00:37:55.980
but not a whole lot. We're mostly just praying together, walking together. Absolutely beautiful.
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Daniel Potvin, thank you so much for bringing the inspiration you received from heaven to the world
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so that many, many of our brothers in faith from all over the world might join, might band together
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in the Knights of John Paul II. God bless you. And thank you so much, Chuck.
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And God bless all of you. And we'll see you next time.
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