New Knights Of St. John Paul II Seek To Reclaim World For Christ
Summary
The Knights of John Paul II is a group of Catholic men who pray the rosary for their town. They believe that the Rosary is a tool that can be used to drive evil and demons out of their community. John Henry Weston, the group s founder, explains how the idea for the movement came about.
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We're calling on St. Michael with all nine choirs of angels. We're calling on all the saints in
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heaven. We're calling on all the souls in purgatory to join us physically, to go out on the streets
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and to drive evil and demons from our town. Hey, my friends, do you know, very often we're left
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wondering what to do? There's so much going on and politics is such a dirty business, but we need
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to be involved somehow. It's very frustrating sometimes to know when. In towns all across
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America, we're having, you know, painted sidewalks or the pride flag being flown from your town hall
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or things like that. Drag queen story hours and even in libraries for children. It seems to be
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a big mess everywhere. We've got Planned Parenthood clinics opening up in smaller venues as well.
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What are we to do? Well, believe it or not, I was, you know, facing this issue myself and I got in the
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mail some pamphlets and things for an idea, an idea of men getting together to pray, to pray for their
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town, to take their town back for Jesus and Mary. And it was awesomely simple. All they do is they get
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together. They say some prayers of deliverance and things like that. And then the men walk out in twos and
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pray the rosary all over town. I called one of my friends up and told him about the idea. And he said,
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oh, that's awesome. That's open carry. Well, open carry, if you don't know, is when you're talking about
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weapons and we're talking about, of course, our weapon of choice, the Most Holy Rosary. And
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fascinating idea. And it's a movement that's just started. We're going to talk to the founders.
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They call themselves the Knights of John Paul II. This is the John Henry Weston Show. Stay tuned.
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Dan Potvin and Deacon Bruce Sider, so good to be with you.
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Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross. In the name of the Father,
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and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Amen. Okay, so first of all, let's get into the
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specifics a little bit, then we'll go back to its founding. So tell us a little bit about these
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prayers. What are we praying here? So the men get together, it takes about an hour on Saturday
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mornings, you suggest, but it could be another day. But what are they praying to start with?
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Well, the opening prayer we do, and usually when we meet, we're in a church parking lot,
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and then we go out from there. But this prayer, which took about four or five months to formulate,
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we're claiming the town by name for our king and our queen. We're entrusting the town to the sacred
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heart of Jesus and the immaculate heart of Mary. And then the prayer is called the prayer before the
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rosary to summon the army. And then we're summoning, we're calling on St. Michael with all nine choirs
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of angels. We're calling on all the saints in heaven. We're calling on all the souls in purgatory
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to join us physically to go out on the streets and to drive evil and demons from our town. And then we
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begin the rosary with a lot of prayers for the town, local leaders, local shepherd, intercessory prayers
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for our nation, police officers, firemen, veterans. And then we split up in pairs of two, like the Lord
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sends a 72 out. And we pray the rosary through the streets. And that's, that's in a nutshell,
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Um, we try to walk around, uh, places, um, city hall and we pray, especially for our public officials,
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the police department, the fire department. And, uh, in our, in our North Adams, we have this modern
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museum, which quite frankly is evil. And so one of our routes is to walk around that museum and pray
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the rosary and, and, you know, ask St. Michael to intercede. So our routes are selected for that
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Great. Okay. So I love how it's so incredibly simple. I'd like to also learn a bit of your
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experience. How does this go? You guys have done this. Um, tell us about any experiences you may have
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had, how this has gone, any stories that might've come from it. So, you know, a lot during winter
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time, it's pretty quiet out on the streets during COVID was very quiet. Um, one of the big things
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that happened during COVID I found interesting is the local church was a vaccine center. So every
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Saturday morning, when we were there, there were 10, 15 police officers and security people
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guarding the building. And we'd show up in the parking lot right next to them, eight, 10,
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12 guys would show up, no masks, you know, and they saw what we were doing. And, and, you
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know, the first couple of weeks, you know, they just look at us from their masks out, you know,
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we're all outside. And then I noticed little by little guys pulling their masks down,
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smiling at us, saying hi. And over time, you could tell they like to see us out there
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because that's our, was our starting point. Um, you know, out on the streets,
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you don't, I mean, once in a while, people will come up and actually ask us what we're
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doing or talk to us, but you know, you're walking two people. Um, we try to carry rosary
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beads that, that are long and people know what we're doing. You know, the summer months we have
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our shirts on, which are our beautiful shirts and that attracts attention. Um, right. It's not
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like you have shirts off the other time you're talking about this t-shirt that you're wearing.
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Yes. Yes. This is, this is, and, and, and on the back, you know, with the back of these t-shirts,
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that's that quote from Luke, um, Luke's gospel where our Lord, when the 72 come back, the Lord tells them
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they're all bragging and, you know, all excited about the miracles, the demons are driving out this
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and that. And he's like, I have given you the power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and the full
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force of the enemy and no harm will befall you. And, and, you know, we don't necessarily, I don't,
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I don't know any of the guys that see the, the angels and the demons battling and stuff, but,
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but the fact that we step into that power and I, and I think that's what it is. It's a stepping into
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that power that God's given us and, and then calling on, right. I mean, we have access to all
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the angels. We have access to, we just got to ask. And so that's got to be a force to be reckoned with
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when we're out on the streets, even if just Deacon and I show up on a Saturday morning,
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because everybody's off doing something else. You've got the, you've got billions of warriors
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with you. You might just be the two of us. The experience that, um, you know, it's, it's hard,
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in a sense, because it's eight o'clock on a Saturday morning. So we don't really see a lot of people as
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we're walking. But for me personally, as Dan said, just carrying that rosary around the streets
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and praying the rosary, um, gives me a sense of, of, uh, I'm not sure of the word, but I just feel
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so good about being a public witness to our faith. Because oftentimes when people think of church,
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it's a building and what happens inside the building, but by us taking that rosary with us
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and walking around the streets every week, uh, is a good feeling for me, I guess, is what I'm trying
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to say that we are bringing a public witness of our faith out into the community. So others can see it
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with the t-shirt and that sort of thing. I personally haven't had anybody stop me
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in the year or so that two years, right? No, I think three. Wow. Four. Four. May 1st, 2020. Wow.
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That's three then. But anyway, um, that's my personal experience. Uh, it's, it's empowering, I guess.
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Um, it's, it's just a beautiful way to witness to our faith in public. Beautiful. Beautiful. So, um,
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tell us about the founding. Like, how did this idea come up? Where, where did this come from?
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You know, and, and, uh, why, why did it come? Um, it's been a long time in the works. Uh,
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you know, I could go back to my childhood watching, uh, Joan of Arc with Ingrid Bergman. Um,
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and, and, and always wanting to be a knight, always wanted to be, you know, in, in battle with,
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with, uh, you know, a bunch of good, holy men. Um, and over the years, I'll be honest. I mean,
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I, I procrastinated for years. I would write stuff down. I'd get these thoughts. I'd write them down.
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Um, and I had a whole pile of them. Um, and then Deacon and I, and another group from the parish,
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we all went to Medjugorje. And, and one of the things I prayed for while I was there
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is I said, you know, blessed mother, most of my kids are grown up now. And what's my mission going
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forward? That was one of the things I, and when we got back, uh, Deacon and I were meeting,
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almost every week, having coffee and this topic would come up and, and Deacon just started like
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really railing on me. He's, he's like, when are you going to stop talking about this
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and make it happen? And so it was during that summer, 2019. And I guess we hit August, September
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when that reading in Luke's gospel came and it just hit me like so hard at mass. I walked
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out to church and I was like, did you hear that? Did you hear that? Everybody thought I
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was nuts. I'm like, do you know? And that really kicked it off. And then what was the reading?
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It was that from Luke's gospel chapter 10, I'd given you the power. Um, and knowing the times
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were in, um, knowing the times we're in right. John Paul, the second's, uh, great prophecy from
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Philadelphia. Um, that week at work, you know, and I, a lot of times I'm running excavator when I'm not
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cutting trees and you can think a lot when you're running an excavator up in the mountains,
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building roads for the logging jobs. And I pondered all week, what's the full force of the enemy?
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If you had to look at the entire Bible from Genesis to the end, and you had to pick out what's the full
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force of the enemy. This is what I came up with. Um, this is lumberjack theology. Bear with me. Um,
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the full force of the enemy would be the time of the antichrist system. That's what I came up with.
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So then, you know, us meeting every week, I started getting serious, writing stuff down,
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finally had everything together to get to the printers, the end of April. And we made it to
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the divine mercy shrine on May 1st, 2020. Um, and it was all put together. Now this prayer wasn't put
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together yet. We were out on the streets every week for four months as this took shape. Okay. And
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we're, we're waiting for an imprimatur on this because guys down at the divine mercy shrine want
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to be able to give this out, this prayer. Um, but they can't do it the way their congregation is set
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up, right? They need all, everything's got to be canonical. Um, but I, yeah, I mean, you know,
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that's a big question, you know, three world use days with JP too. This certainly was an influence. Um,
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Well, I, I, I've known Dan for 30 years and, uh, it definitely, no doubt in my mind, it's a work of
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the Holy spirit because Dan is his charism, if you will, is a warrior. He's a fighter. That's what Dan
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is. And, and this, this John Paul, the second, the Knights of, um, is, is just an extension,
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I think of his personality, his being. Um, and so maybe if I'm getting ahead of myself, but let me
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know, but we, we actually have petitioned our Bishop and August of last year, he, uh, has given us
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permission, if you will. Uh, we, we've, uh, applied to, if you will, or petitioned to become a public
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association of the faithful where we're now considered a private association. So on August
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23rd of last year, he sent us a letter, um, giving us permission to go forward. And he's given us three
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years, uh, to, to continue, and then he'll reassess at three years and, and go from there. But each year
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we have to, um, meet annually and submit like our, our progress. So, um, that's where we're at with,
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with regard to our association, if you will. Beautiful. Now, um, the, so you've, you've already
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given some reports to him or, or when, when is year one for you to give a report to the Bishop?
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Um, we just sent in our first. Oh, just send it now. Okay. Yeah. So we're one year into the,
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into the three-year process. And we just, just recently sent down our, um, our update,
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you know, what, what progress have we made of the first year ago. Okay. I haven't, we haven't heard
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back yet. If I could, if I could interject here, John Henry, the, the reason we're going through
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this process, when we got a meeting with the Bishop, and to be honest, I bumped into Sister
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Didi at a, uh, conference in the diocese, and I hadn't been able to get a, uh, meeting with the
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Bishop yet for the Knights to meet with them and introduce ourselves and went to the conference,
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Providence, Providence, as it worked. She called me over. She noticed the t-shirt. She wanted to
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know about it. And a week later, two weeks later, we were meeting with the Bishop. All I really wanted
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at that time, cause I had envisioned, I don't know if you've ever seen the picture, the famous picture,
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it's called the knighting. I always wanted to be knighted by a queen. It's a beautiful picture.
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It's on our website. All I wanted to do was ask the Bishop, can the guys come down and
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our, our cathedral in the diocese is named after St. Michael, the archangel. And I wanted us to go
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down the aisle two by two, kneel in front of the Bishop and him knight us with the first class relic
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of JP too. And he's like, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. I'm telling him this. He's like, you're getting way ahead of
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yourself. And he said, no, he said, I want you guys to have canonical approval. He said, you know,
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I had told them, you know, it was six or eight of us there at the meeting. I said, I said, Bishop,
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I said, you know, the demons have taken over our towns. They've taken over our schools. They've taken
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over our financial institutions. I said, they've even taken over some of our parishes.
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He said, I know. He said, I know. And I said, you know, we're going out there pushing back.
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You know, father Armory mentioned, you know, one of the demons told him every hail Mary is like a
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sledgehammer on our head. Hmm. Well, let's go out and let's beat on some demons and cause them some
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uncomfortable, you know, at least show up, show up to the fight, um, and beat on demons. A lot of
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times I'll say that to the guys, you know, just when we're getting ready to break up and go out,
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it's like, all right, let's go beat on some demons. Cause every hail Mary. Right.
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So really, it was, so really it was the Bishop, Bishop Byrne, um, that pushed us in this direction.
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I'll be honest. He looked right at us and he said, listen, he said, this is God's work,
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which he had never met us. I'm sure his sister put in a good word for us, but she hardly knew us.
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For him to say that I was like blown away. I'm like, I, if I was a Bishop, I was like,
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all right, I'm going to watch you knuckleheads and see, see where this goes. Yeah.
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Yeah. I think the idea is totally striking, especially in its simplicity. Uh, it is,
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it's the first program that I've ever seen that I was like, yes, that's it. Because it's a,
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it's a beautiful, uh, it's, I hesitate to say perfect cause nothing's perfect, but you know what
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I mean? It's, it's actually an action that we can all take that men need to step up and it gives us
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something to do. Uh, very few are called to, uh, politics and all sorts of things. We're all called
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to do politics in some way to, to support good candidates and so on. But you know, who's called
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to run some are called perhaps to do more, you know, lobbying and whatnot, but this, this, I think
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everyone's called to do those who are able-bodied that is. So, uh, fantastic stuff. Have you noticed,
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and maybe not yet, but have you noticed you've been doing this now for, for a few years? Have
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you noticed any effects in your town? Uh, yeah. Um, things are getting worse in our area.
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No, no, I'm serious. My little town of 800 people, um, the whole transgender thing has moved right into
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the school. Um, so no, it's not, it's, it's, uh, uh, it's not like our little towns, the triumph of
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Mary's Immaculate Heart has happened and we're in a new era. Um, the battle just keeps getting
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fiercer. Um, but I know it's having effect. Um, I know in my little town, I was on the select board
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for 10 years up until recently, I lost the seat by three boats. Um, and if there was a big issue
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going on, like during COVID, cause we, we had a lawsuit against the governor, we were fighting back
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on every level. And then because of my background in the military, I was making the people aware of
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the dangers of the shots, mask wearing, all this stuff. And we had huge opposition.
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Against us. And what I would do before the meeting is I'd get some of the nights out there in the
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parking lot and we do what we do. Then I go into the meeting. I will say all those meetings.
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We did just huge victories. We destroyed the opposition and you could feel God's power working.
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Um, so I would say this can be used on a lot of level. It's like your nights in the town,
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find out when an important school board meeting or, you know, and show up outside, do this. You're,
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you're, I like to think of us as the big guns that can affect battles that are going on. Um,
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it's almost English. You're absolutely right. Anybody can do this. You can be a bishop and do
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this, get men together with you. Um, a priest be awesome. If the shepherds were going out with a
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group of men in their town. Um, but you can be a Knight of Columbus and not, you can just incorporate
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this. A lot of the, a lot of other groups, you know, the men tell me, they say, we're just not doing
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anything. You know, and you get bored going to meetings and talking about something you're going
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to do six months from now, get out there and boots on the ground. And it's great too. Plus,
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you know, there's so many, you're walking through your town that you don't walk through. Hey,
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there's an occult shop. What's going on with that? I didn't know that was here. Hey, there's a porn
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shop and you, you start recognizing your town. And because when you entrust your town, you're naming
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your town, there's that ownership and people should think this is my town, you know, and there's no room
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for this stuff here. That's the beginning of a change of thinking. This, this is, this is my town.
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I still live in the town I grew up in. Okay. And, and, you know, as long as I'm a second air,
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I'm going to battle against this some way, shape or form. And this is a great way to battle.
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Yeah. It's similar North Adams where I live. It's, it's, it's down. It's, we, we were a hardworking
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mill town. Faithful town, five Catholic churches at one point in my lifetime, my adult life. We had
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five that were full. And when the factory started to close and the mill started to close,
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even now we're down to one church and it's not full. And as I said earlier, this, this museum that
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came in, this mass mocha it's called is, it just brought in in all honesty, all kinds of evil.
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And so it's not getting any better in North Adams either. I wish I could say it was, but again,
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for me, it's, it's, it's the personal, uh, that I get out of doing what I do each, each Saturday that
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I can is to just be a, be a public witness for our faith. And, um, you don't know what's going to
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happen really. Like Dan said, we call upon a lot of spiritual help and, um, have any other men joined
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you, or is it just you two for now? Um, go ahead. Yeah, no, we, we started out basically, uh, with
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just Dan and I in a small group, but now we have men in, in neighboring communities, Cheshire, Adams,
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uh, towns, um, nearby who are, are nights now. And, um, they pray in their respective towns,
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not big, there's not a lot, but, um, yeah, yeah. Great. I'm finding that this work, this, this
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association, what we do is not going to attract wishy-washy Catholics. It's just not going to be
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attractive to them. It, it's attracting solid, devout, faithful Catholics. And another benefit
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for me is the fellowship that we share, you know, being together with like-minded people
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that we can speak about our faith, share our faith and get inspired. I mean, I get inspired
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just listening to Dan talk. He inspires me because of his warrior personality. He does really.
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So you've got basically a thing where you, you're one hour every Saturday together in
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the morning. I like to tell my friends here, you know, we have a mass that's a little bit
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later on Saturdays. So we'd go like eight to nine or something, then go home and help get
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the kids to mass because otherwise that's a real chore. But then you guys actually suggest
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doing something beyond that on the first Saturdays of the month. What's that?
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Well, that's, uh, to take part in first Saturday devotion. Um, and we did it for a whole summer
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two years ago at Camp Holy Cross. Um, we had a priest that came with us. We tried to make
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it an all day event with families and we'd have mass, do the rosary, do the 15 minutes of
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meditation, confessions. Um, and it was a lake there, you know, right now that got shut down
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for us. So we're just coming to father Paul's church for Saturday of the month because right.
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That's, that's again, something to bless the mother assets to do. I mean, you could argue
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that we're in the trouble we're in because a lot of stuff wasn't done a hundred years ago.
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Um, and we're the lucky ones that get to fight in the times we're in now because that wasn't
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done. Um, so yeah, that organizing processions, there's already a huge procession here in Bishop
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Burns diocese and going on for 20 years and I'll get it some of the nights together and we'll
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go down and we're kind of like undercover security. So we'll be on either sides. And these are huge.
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It's a huge procession. And we're just like head on a swivel watching. If there's any trouble,
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you got to protect the priests and the Eucharist. Um, the Bishop was with us two years ago.
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Now that's again, it's public and it's on the streets and that's an awesome thing to do. Bruce and
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I, we organized Eucharistic procession for probably five, six years. Yeah. And, uh, now that he's moved
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to this new church, we're going to hit the priest up to do one in October. Um, again, we, the minute we
00:29:21.880
give up the public square, which, you know, I was, I was so excited you guys out there in LA and to see
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John Paul II out in front. I was just like, Oh, it was an amazing thing. It was, uh, it's certainly,
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uh, it is certainly a sign of something and you're right. It is kind of a sign for you. I could see
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that, um, being, being assigned to do something in the streets with John Paul II. Um, I remember that
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on an organizing level, um, John Yep called me up and we were looking for a relic of John Paul II and I
00:29:59.120
tried, then I couldn't find one. He got one finally. And, uh, so that was great. Um, and, uh, it was,
00:30:06.340
um, is an incredible thing, but it is true. The prayers, the deliverance prayers that Bishop Strickland
00:30:14.180
said are by the way, very similar to the prayers that you have in here as well. Um, but they are one
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said by a Bishop and it was stunningly powerful. In fact, for me, that was the most powerful thing
00:30:27.200
was actually, I was kneeling down and Bishop Strickland was praying deliverance prayers over
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all of us, over America, over, over Los Angeles, over all of us there. It was, it was actually
00:30:38.960
just amazing. Just amazing. Um, so yeah, we, you had, um, um, you very much that same spirit of,
00:30:49.960
uh, your Knights of John Paul II. So just, uh, great stuff. Any, any parting thoughts for us? How,
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how do people, um, get involved, get in trust with you if they want to do this in their town? Where do
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they get the program from? How can they get involved? Absolutely. Okay. We have a website and it's
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knightsofstjohnpaul2.org. Um, and it's pretty rough right now, but it gives you a general idea.
00:31:22.880
Um, you can email us there. We can mail you materials. Um, it was specifically designed to
00:31:31.260
be easy to start. And, uh, I understand there's a rumor that there might be a chapter starting up
00:31:37.320
in Canada. There is indeed. I'm starting one locally here. Um, yeah, I'm, I'm away a lot. So
00:31:45.500
a lot of other people who I've approached will, will probably take up the leadership of it, but it's,
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um, that I, I think we're going to start with a few guys anyway, uh, and see where it goes from
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there. This, uh, first Saturday, we, we do something at our parish anyway. And there's another,
00:32:00.920
there was another idea that congeals with it. So I think it, I think it'd be really good. Um,
00:32:05.520
it was funny because when I first sent out the email about it to my local friends, uh, one showed
00:32:10.860
up the next Saturday and I was like, Oh wait, um, I was, first of all, I was gone. And so, um,
00:32:16.000
but it's, it's really great. There are, um, a bunch of good guys here who really do see in this
00:32:21.740
just every, not everyone, but a lot of the guys who I approach were like, Oh, that's great. Cause
00:32:26.180
it's brilliantly simple. Um, and I think that's, that's really the key. Our Lord and our lady want
00:32:34.860
us to fight like knights, but unlike the knights of old, our enemies today are so powerful. That's
00:32:42.200
almost, it almost seems omnipotent, all powerful because they have everything. They have all the
00:32:47.420
money. They have all the people, they have all of the, um, uh, Intel, like to think that everything
00:32:55.960
you're doing is being watched, monitored and controlled as we now know, thanks to, uh, what
00:33:02.280
COVID the lockdowns and our phones have showed us. Um, and the ideas that they've come up with
00:33:08.100
of tracking people and stuff, it's like, we're, there's no fighting. Well, there is fighting.
00:33:14.340
There's fighting in the most simple ways. Um, one of my friends here is a famous Canadian author
00:33:21.000
and his name is Michael O'Brien. He was actually the one who showed up at the, uh, at the church
00:33:26.620
parking lot saying, Hey, where are you guys? Um, and, uh, he, he wrote a book called Father Elijah.
00:33:33.020
If you haven't read it yet, you should, it's incredible, but it's an apocalyptic novel. He's
00:33:38.040
Canada's most famous Catholic novelist. He's a, as faithful as you can be. He's a real hero of mine.
00:33:46.000
Anyway, he, uh, in his book, Father Elijah, the most famous book, he's written many, many books,
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but, um, it's an apocalyptic story about Antichrist and about the time of Antichrist.
00:33:57.300
And you get the feeling that there's no way to fight this. And then he talks about these two,
00:34:05.140
um, people who fight and, um, Father Elijah, a priest, and then, um, a brother who really is not
00:34:15.820
smart or anything, but he goes around and they are led to fight against Antichrist,
00:34:23.100
the most powerful enemy the church will ever have. Um, because it'll be directed solely by,
00:34:28.840
you know, really by Satan. And they do so, so simply. They're asked to do simple things.
00:34:34.300
They carry them out as they're told to by our Lord. And that's it. And that's why I think this
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is so brilliant. It's a very simple thing we're called to do anyway. And it's doing it in a way
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like, very much like, as you said, the Christ sent out the apostles two by two. And here are these men
00:34:52.200
going out two by two, praying the most holy rosary around their towns, which, which goes back to the
00:34:57.360
church's teaching on subsidiarity, which is act where you are. It's all about local activism.
00:35:03.300
And it's not activism for activism sake. It's activism for heaven's sake with the real weapon.
00:35:08.780
Um, and as my friend said, open carry, I just love it. Uh, any final thoughts for us,
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either from you, Deacon or Dan? Um, if you're, if you're going to start a chapter,
00:35:19.840
I thought about this the last week leading up to this, um, of how, cause, cause Bishop Byrne
00:35:26.900
does want us to keep track and this and that. So I don't like numbers. So because you're entrusting
00:35:35.120
your town, claiming your town, how we're going to do this going forward is like my town, Stanford,
00:35:44.720
Vermont chapter, Bruce's town, North Adams, Massachusetts. You're going to name your
00:35:50.900
town. Names are important. Um, and so that, that's how, you know, if, if you're going to
00:36:01.520
start a chapter, I mean, if you're just going to, you're Knights of Columbus and you want,
00:36:06.740
you know, 20 of these cards and we figure out how to have it on the website so you can just
00:36:11.240
print them off. We, we're, we're not that savvy. We, Bruce and I have never even done one of these
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things. Um, but you can just download these and take them out and go, you know, um, closing thoughts.
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I do had, I had a few things written down. A lot of the warrior women around here wanted to join us
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early on and, you know, I had to dig my heels in. One of them was my sister and she is a Joan of
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art. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. The men, we need our time. But if you can pray one hail Mary
00:36:51.060
a day for the Knights, you'd be doing us a great service. So to the women out there that happen to
00:36:57.120
watch this, you know, a hail Mary a day, I'm asking for, for the Knights of JP too. Um, to the priests
00:37:06.340
who see this, get out with your men. You'd be surprised how much us knuckleheads can encourage you
00:37:17.420
and give you support. Um, and, and priests need that men time too. And if you're a bishop out there,
00:37:25.360
my goodness, invite all the men in the diocese once a month to come down the cathedral and walk
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the streets of your city. Um, I guess that that's it for me. What? Yeah. I just think that, um,
00:37:41.560
we were, Dan and I were talking earlier. This is really the found we're laying a foundation
00:37:45.780
and, um, part of what we have to do to become a public association is to have, uh, a bylaws or a
00:37:55.460
rules kind of thing, a constitution. And so we, we have put that together and again, we've submitted
00:38:01.220
it to the bishop and, um, something like this can only grow. Uh, the foundation is what we do on
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Saturday morning, but, um, I envision and I hope, and I pray that it can become more, um, something
00:38:19.260
more where we can do more together as Knights, pray more together as Knights, learn more about our faith
00:38:25.940
as Knights, uh, together and grow spiritually for us as well as to, to call upon our spiritual warriors to
00:38:35.660
help us. But I, I, I envision this as a way for us to grow in our faith and our spiritual life as well
00:38:43.540
going forward. Beautiful. Well, Deacon Bruce and Dan, it's so good being with you. Thank you for doing
00:38:52.760
this. Uh, and I'm, I'm happy to be part of a Canadian, your first Canadian chapter, perhaps.
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God bless you both. Thank you. Thank you so much, John Henry. Thank you. And God bless all of you.