Redemption ｜ Eric Tafoya From Murderer To Catholic Convert PART2
Summary
Eric Tafoya is a stunning witness to the truth of the faith. He is an ex-gang member, ex-drug dealer, a murderer, a convicted criminal, a former Jehovah Witness, an anti-Calvinist, and then became a Catholic. We re catching him in his conversion story with this show.
Transcript
00:00:00.000
We're not a church from 400 years ago like Protestants. We're not even like 60 years ago
00:00:03.980
like non-denominational churches who think they know everything. They've only been around for 60
00:00:08.280
years. Or the Mormons 200 years or Jehovah Witnesses. Our church has been around for 2,000 years.
00:00:20.240
I'm sure many of you saw the interview with Eric Tafoya, part one. This is part two. But for those
00:00:25.700
who didn't, remember Eric Tafoya is a stunning witness to the truth of the faith. He is an ex-gang
00:00:34.000
member, ex-drug addict, dealer, an ex-convict, ex-murderer, ex-criminal, ex-Jehovah Witness,
00:00:39.740
ex-Calvinist, anti-Catholic, and then became a Catholic. It is unreal. We're catching him
00:00:45.180
in his conversion story with this show. If you haven't seen the beginning yet,
00:00:50.340
please go back and watch it. This is the John Henry Weston Show. Stay tuned.
00:00:55.700
Hello friends. To celebrate the momentous overturning of Roe v. Wade, we at LifeSite have
00:01:00.940
minted just under 10,000 of these brand new limited edition pro-life silver rounds. Now each
00:01:05.900
round is stamped with the image of the Supreme Court of the United States featuring the date
00:01:10.980
that the High Court delivered this historic victory. And on the front of our pure silver
00:01:15.020
rounds, LifeSite's logo surrounded by a brilliant sunburst and draped with olive branches. They of
00:01:19.440
course commemorate our 25-year anniversary of LifeSite News. We began in 1997 in September. So
00:01:25.520
September of 2022 was 25 years. These one-ounce silver rounds are available from our partners
00:01:31.640
at StJosephsPartners.com where you can fulfill all of your silver and gold needs in this perilous time.
00:01:37.880
Three years ago, I got out of prison and I planned a lot of stuff and I said, God, I'm going to be a part
00:01:44.400
of your church. I'm confirmed. I'm going to be diligent with sharing the faith. I'm not going to
00:01:49.900
give up. It's not going to... And a lot of people will say, oh yeah, you were all holy when you were
00:01:53.280
in prison, Eric. But when you get out, like a lot of people say it's a stigma that a lot of ex-cons,
00:01:59.280
ex-addicts have on them is that, oh, you're just going to go back to your old ways.
00:02:03.220
Once you leave incarceration, you're going to fall into your old ways. And when I got out,
00:02:08.380
it was a struggle at first, to be honest with you. It was an extreme struggle because
00:02:11.880
I expected family to be there for me. And not a single person wanted to be there for me. They're
00:02:17.140
like, not only were you a drug addict and a murderer and all these other things you are,
00:02:22.760
but now you're Catholic. And all my family had gone away from Catholicism except for my grandma.
00:02:28.400
And bless her soul, she's in a convalescent home right now. She has dementia. She's the only one
00:02:33.220
that loves me. And even though she doesn't remember me most of the time. And so then all of a sudden I
00:02:37.740
got out and for one week I was homeless. And I was like, I had places to stay at a hotel room and
00:02:44.580
everything. And I had a little bit of money because I had won some kind of lawsuit from Chipotle's and
00:02:50.180
they had sent me money right before I got out of prison. I won like a $1,300 lawsuit. My name was in it.
00:02:55.560
I wasn't a part of the lawsuit, but I guess it was because of like overtime. So I had money when
00:03:00.120
I got out. And so I was like, okay, you know what? I called my parole officer and said, man,
00:03:04.300
I'm struggling to find a place because there was a time where I was going to say, you know what,
00:03:08.600
let me just go to this girl's house or let me go to my old friend's house. Even though I know he
00:03:12.560
sells drugs there, let me go over there because I need somewhere to live. You know, I need somewhere
00:03:17.120
to stay. And I got on my knees. I remember I was passing this park and I just begged him. I said,
00:03:21.680
God, I know you haven't brought me this far, Heavenly Father, for me to fall dead on my face.
00:03:26.080
I know you haven't transformed me for me to be just go back to that old way of living. And I
00:03:31.000
dropped on my knees and I prayed in front of St. Joseph, the worker in Loma Linda. There's a park
00:03:35.760
right next to it. And then they have a blessed Virgin Mary statue right there. Mama statues right
00:03:40.380
there. And I went in front of him and I said, please, I know you have me. And because it was during
00:03:45.440
COVID. So even parole didn't have any kind of funding for me because I said, well, it's the
00:03:51.940
heart of COVID. We can't get you in nowhere. But I did call my parole officer and I told him I have
00:03:55.940
$600. Can you please find me a place to stay? I have money. I can do it myself. And never before in
00:04:02.380
my life had I ever been self-sufficient. Never before in my life had I ever turned toward God instead of
00:04:10.240
turning towards drugs or a path of life that was going to lead to my destruction again. And this moment
00:04:15.220
I have now being a Catholic, knowing the virtues, knowing asceticism, knowing I have to mortify
00:04:20.880
the flesh, knowing that every day when I put on my armor, I'm going to have to fight. That's why
00:04:25.500
Paul says, put on the armor. St. Paul says, put on the armor of God. Not because he's trying to be
00:04:29.680
cute. Not because you're going to march around. Oh, I got the armor of God on. Hallelujah. No, because
00:04:33.800
when a soldier puts on his armor, he's ready to battle. He's ready to fight. And my professor
00:04:40.360
actually said, you know what? I do have a place for you. So it was about a week and a half
00:04:44.620
after I was out, I started renting my own little room. I lived in a room with another guy, but now
00:04:50.240
for the first time in my life, I was self-sufficient. And I found a job that first week I was out,
00:04:55.700
still have the same job as a wilder fabricator. To this day, three years later, first time I ever
00:05:00.680
had a job longer than six months. I had never been consistent with anything ever in my life. Now being
00:05:07.620
Catholic and understanding the battles and understanding these vices and understanding that I have to work
00:05:13.860
towards my salvation every day and the devil doesn't want me happy, I saw that. So then,
00:05:18.860
okay, now I'm grounded. I got a place. I got a home. I'm in the faith. I'm praying the rosary every day.
00:05:24.440
I'm saying in scriptures. Now I need to find a church. And that's where it kind of struggles
00:05:28.700
continues to happen because all my family has rejected me since I've been out. Sometimes it can
00:05:33.380
be a little, it gets a little to me because I know who I am in Christ now. And it's like, I'm not that
00:05:38.260
same person no more. Like, I know you guys understand. I've lived like that forever.
00:05:42.620
But like, I'm new in Christ. Like, for real, this guy, you see, I'll just, I'm new in Christ. I'm
00:05:46.760
sober. It's been actually, it's going to be eight years this year. You know, sober, I'm self-sufficient.
00:05:52.960
I'm in the church. Like, please, like, but even in the church, I'm all tatted down. Even though I got
00:05:57.760
all religious tattoos, I actually have shackles that are broken right here on my wrist. I have sacred
00:06:02.960
heart right here, Templar Knight, Mama right here, Jesus back here, Last Supper on my back,
00:06:09.060
Roman Catholic across my chest, all my gang tattoos I covered up. But when people see these
00:06:13.940
tattoos, especially in the faith, like I can always say there's always a lot of dry Catholics
00:06:18.280
in the faith. Sorry, I'm not knocking nobody. But they just don't see the power of the Holy
00:06:23.500
Spirit enough. And so they judge, very judgmental. Who's this guy that's on fire? You know, I
00:06:28.440
understand I'm new. I understand I have a past. So I had to endure through all these things.
00:06:32.160
But a lot of people rejected me, not necessarily rejecting me, but kind of like, okay, don't
00:06:38.640
get me wrong. There's been some amazing people that have been in my life that totally have
00:06:42.700
embraced me since I've been out. I have a couple mentors that I have, a couple priests.
00:06:46.860
I have two vocational directors, Father Lorenzi from Holy Name of Jesus, Father Duong from
00:06:52.840
the cathedral. Remember that cathedral that I was telling you about that I prayed and I asked
00:06:57.640
God to take this away from me. I said, please take this drug addiction away from me. He took
00:07:02.680
it away from me. But somebody had to lose their life. That same place that I was begging God to
00:07:07.960
take away my addiction. I live two blocks from now. And that's actually my parish where I left
00:07:13.160
her. But it was a struggle there. You know, there are a lot of Catholics everywhere. They're
00:07:17.600
kind of like, hey, who is this guy? We've got to watch out for him. He's all tatted up. And at the
00:07:21.040
time, I wouldn't dress in long sleeves. Like I now every time I go to mass, I dress to impress
00:07:25.980
because I'm about to see my king. But at that time, I didn't. I would just wear short sleeves
00:07:31.260
and go, you know, I'm all showing my tattoos off and stuff. I'm proud of him. I love my tattoos,
00:07:35.480
by the way. I really do. I enjoy them because it reaches the younger crowds, especially when I
00:07:40.600
have mosaics over. It's like mosaics all over my body. Jerusalem cross right here. My patron saint,
00:07:47.860
Saint Athanasius of Alexandria under my arm right here, you know, defender of the church. That's my
00:07:53.040
patron saint right there. And so Saint Athanasius, pray for us. And so as I was continuing to go in,
00:07:59.800
I said, you know what, Lord, I'm going to be patient. I'm going to have long suffering.
00:08:04.760
You were so patient with me and everything that I've been doing. Helped me to continue enduring this
00:08:11.260
and going through this little by little. Even though I was hurting, I wanted people's love.
00:08:15.760
I yearn for people's love, you know. And so being now two years, self-sufficient, doing everything
00:08:21.840
the right way, involved in church, lector. I help with RCIA. I usher sometimes. I do the changing of
00:08:28.880
the seasons. Knights of Columbus. I'm actually the director of life. So I'm big time. I'm pro-life.
00:08:34.500
Even before I became part of the Knights of Columbus, I go to the abortion clinics every weekend.
00:08:39.080
Every weekend, I go there just by myself and I pray the rosary. I don't intercede with the women
00:08:43.360
too much. When there's women that are with me, I'll act. I'll talk with them. I'll get this
00:08:48.220
interaction with them. I mean interaction. But I just intercede for them through prayer.
00:08:53.820
I just don't feel it's my spot to go at a woman. I don't know the hurts. I don't know the things that
00:08:59.800
they're going through. But I pray for them. I pray for the physicians. I pray for the little babies.
00:09:04.720
And I pray for those men that aren't being in those women's life, that aren't taking a hold of their
00:09:08.840
family and being moral. And I pray for the morality of America, because that's what it really
00:09:13.300
boils down to. The devil wants us all to sin. But when we start going back to the morals,
00:09:18.600
our moral compass, and start following the commandments and the love of God, that's where
00:09:23.740
everything starts changing. And so now I'm on my third year. I'm part of El Sembrador. I don't know
00:09:30.480
if you've ever heard of Esni? No. El Sembrador. It's called the Sower. It's a big Spanish ministry,
00:09:36.260
but we have an English ministry. Noel Diaz is his name. Very big in the Americas. This ministry is
00:09:43.180
like in Spain. So I'm a part of that ministry, Crisio, Knights of Columbus, Catholic Men's
00:09:49.380
Fellowship. I have a Bible study at my house every other Saturday called Iron Sharpens Iron.
00:09:55.680
One brother shall sharpen another, speaking life into men. I'm very big now on just wanting to share
00:10:02.880
what God's doing in my life. Like I was saying earlier, we should all let our light shine like
00:10:06.640
you do so that we can show the good works that we're doing and bring glory to God because we're
00:10:12.400
not doing our works. You're not on this show. I'm not here right now because I'm saying, oh,
00:10:16.300
look at me. Because like I like saying, I'm just a nobody trying to tell everybody all about somebody
00:10:22.700
who saved my soul, which is Jesus Christ. And that's why we're here today, you know, evangelizing,
00:10:29.320
sharing the faith, being keen and knowing who God is in every single one of us. And if God,
00:10:34.900
and the reason why I'm so active with wanting to share this is because if God can change a filthy
00:10:39.240
rag like me, if his mercy and grace can transform me, and I'm not diagnosed with nothing. I remember
00:10:46.340
I told you earlier, they said that I was bipolar, schizophrenic. I've gone to the psychologist again.
00:10:51.040
I am sane as day. I am self-efficient. I got my own place now for two and a half years. I have an
00:10:55.200
apartment. For two and a half years, I drive a newer car. All my bills are paid. Credit score is above
00:11:01.800
800 right now. Just had to throw that one in there. Nothing like having a good credit score,
00:11:06.040
you know, never thought about that before. And just about going back into like the ghettos and
00:11:10.860
the Vardos and sharing transformation with them because I'm working on my bachelor's degree right
00:11:15.600
now in sociology. So I do go to a secular college and, but I'm kind of like, I'm cunning like a snake,
00:11:23.020
but I'm gentle as a dove because to be in their, in their areas, people want to leave the secular
00:11:28.740
colleges. But if we leave the secular colleges, then we leave our brothers and sisters alone.
00:11:33.880
So I've worked my way into there. I'm actually going to be a part of the board of directors.
00:11:38.580
This Thursday, I get voted in the board of directors for the school, making decisions on
00:11:42.380
where money goes, the different centers that we have there. And they don't know I'm really
00:11:47.840
conservative and how Catholic I am. I'm part of the Catholic Newman Club, and I'm actually an officer
00:11:52.660
for the Catholic Newman Club at Cal State San Bernardino. So just extremely active of who I am.
00:11:58.220
I'm going to be the first Catholic, the first conservative that's going to sit on their board
00:12:02.960
because everybody else that sits on their board is liberal. But I had, except for the president,
00:12:07.920
he's Catholic, he's Catholic and he's conservative, but he's very low key because for him to get to
00:12:13.000
that position, he can't open his mouth at all. But he told me, Eric, your YouTube channels,
00:12:18.340
try to stay away from the transgender stuff. Try to stay away from the pro-life stuff, even though
00:12:22.460
there is a lot of pro-life stuff on my channel, traditional urban Christian on YouTube.
00:12:26.880
But he goes, work your way in there. Don't put too much stuff on your Instagram because I'm
00:12:31.980
starting to get a good Instagram following too. I put stuff every day, just it's like a blog to show
00:12:37.120
what God's doing in my life. But I'm getting in those spaces. Why? Because we need to make sure
00:12:42.500
that we are in those spaces. They've infiltrated our church. We need to infiltrate back now. We need to
00:12:48.820
stand up for who Jesus Christ is in our lives. We need to be active, not just going to church.
00:12:54.520
That's not enough. Our future generations depend on the choices that we make. The consequences of
00:13:01.420
our choices will result in a better future for our grandchildren, for our great-grandchildren,
00:13:06.700
for anybody else that's in the world that's a part of our faith, and even just for Christians. So I'm
00:13:11.440
not just standing up for Catholic Christians. I'm trying to do these things for everybody who
00:13:15.420
professes Christ as a Catholic Christian, as a Roman Catholic, as a proud Roman Catholic,
00:13:20.200
the church that Christ built in 33 AD. It's everything to me. And being Catholic,
00:13:27.080
joining Catholicism, and actually knowing and embracing the teachings has transformed me into
00:13:32.760
this soldier for Christ, to this man who wants to stand up. Even when people are like,
00:13:37.460
don't talk about Jesus. No. I wear my sacramentals. I like it because it has the military cord. It's a
00:13:44.640
rosary. But this is the kind you can wear because it has the military rope on it. I heard that these
00:13:49.540
are the, you can wear these ones. And that has all my little miraculous medals, St. Padre Pio,
00:13:55.460
St. Athanasius of Alexandria, Mama Mary, St. Michael the Archangel, and St. Charbel, and St. Benedict
00:14:03.420
are on my miraculous medals right here. And I really believe it, that we should wear it proudly
00:14:09.100
wherever we go. I don't care where I'm at. It's always, either this or my Benedict cross is always
00:14:15.120
out. And I try to engage with a lot of brothers and sisters. Always wear it. Don't just say we're
00:14:20.660
Catholic. This is how people know who we are. Not just by the way we love one another, but when they
00:14:25.120
see the miraculous medals, they know who we are. The devil can't turn away from who that is because
00:14:31.380
he knows what Catholics, what we wear, you know. Tell us about CrossFit. You've got a very neat
00:14:39.160
program that you tell people about to give them the essentials. What's that? You guys know CrossFit
00:14:45.640
out there, cross training. It's like this full body workout. So, you know, I got a story where I asked a
00:14:51.660
friend, hey, he works out all the time. And I'm like, hey, buddy, you want to go for a hike with me?
00:14:56.380
And he's like, oh, yeah, I'll go for a hike with you. We went on this hike. I dominated the guy in
00:15:02.620
the hike. Why? Because he always works his upper body. He wasn't working his lower body. And so he
00:15:08.680
started getting cramps. He couldn't make the full hike. And so the reason why is because he didn't do
00:15:14.520
the full cross train workout. And so now I reflect this on cross training. And so cross training to me
00:15:22.140
is let me get let me get out of the way a little bit. Or let me just show you right here. It's the
00:15:26.580
cross. And so I talk about this cross training right here. There's four points of the cross we
00:15:32.460
have on here, correct? Where Jesus's head sat, where his feet were nailed, where his hands were both
00:15:38.460
nailed to the cross. And so with CrossFit in the physical aspect, that physical workout, it trains
00:15:44.740
the entire body. So no matter what you're doing, you're full fit. I do CrossFit at when I work out at the
00:15:49.880
gym. I love going to the gym. It's a big part of my who I am. And the Bible does say out there
00:15:55.000
that physical workout does profit you a little. I know spiritual workout profits you in abundance,
00:16:00.660
but it's an important thing to understand that the Bible does say that physical workout profits you.
00:16:06.320
So with CrossFit, Cross training, it's called Cross training. I take every point of the cross. The top
00:16:11.560
part of the cross I talk about is the Eucharist, which is the source and summit of our faith.
00:16:18.160
There are efficacious graces and powers. Every time you take the Eucharist, it transforms your heart,
00:16:25.540
your mind. It gives you forgiveness and love. We remember what Jesus did for us on the cross, that
00:16:31.740
sacrifice that he did for us that lasts a lifetime. And we keep on taking it every time we go to Mass.
00:16:37.600
So going to Mass and taking the Eucharist is vital because like the Catechism says, it is the source
00:16:43.480
and summit of our faith. Jesus says, he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has life in you. So he
00:16:50.480
who doesn't eat his flesh and drink his blood has no life in you. Remember that. And even before he says
00:16:55.640
that, he says, verily, verily, or truly, truly, he wants us to hear that taking this is extremely
00:17:03.040
important. And even in Corinthians 11, St. Paul says, take it as often as you can until Christ comes back.
00:17:11.340
That's an important part of it. But I noticed a lot of people that go to Mass and they go to church and
00:17:16.180
they're awesome individuals. Hey, they're going to Mass, they're taking the Eucharist, praise God.
00:17:20.420
But there's always like something's missing. They always seem a little dry. They're always seem like
00:17:25.660
honoring a little bit. And so I cross training now leads me to the bottom of the cross,
00:17:31.540
where I actually speak about praying with my 60 millimeter. And so my say, everybody knows what a
00:17:39.220
millimeter is. It's a gun. Well, my 60 millimeter, that's a big shell. Like they're big like that.
00:17:44.940
But my 60 millimeter is the Holy Rosary. Why? Because there's 60 beads on our rosary. Praying in every day
00:17:53.220
gives us strength. It gives us power. We meditate on Jesus's life. Plus Padre Pio says it's the,
00:17:59.340
one of the greatest weapons, if not the greatest weapon that we have to defend against the devil.
00:18:05.580
The devil don't got no power when you're in the rosary. And it's like our, our buddy, Taylor Marshall
00:18:10.540
says, those who don't pray the rosary daily aren't on the team, you know? So you're on the team when
00:18:17.660
you're praying the rosary, even, even if it's hard for you at first to get into praying the rosary,
00:18:23.020
everybody out there, go on YouTube, start off slow, go to YouTube, get, they have different ones. You
00:18:30.100
can get a rosary. That's an hour. You can get a rosary. That's 15 minutes, but at least listen to
00:18:35.640
it. Understand what the rosary is about. If you're not already praying the rosary today, because going
00:18:40.940
to mass, taking the Eucharist, that's already efficacious graces in the Eucharist, but now praying
00:18:46.800
and getting more graces. And our blessed mother wants us to pray this for the salvation of the world
00:18:52.080
and to bend us against the devil, it makes you a little bit stronger now. But even at that,
00:18:57.880
we got the Eucharist, we got the rosary at the bottom. I also believe that it's important on this
00:19:03.980
side of the cross. Now I talk about is learning the doctrine of the faith and reading the Bible.
00:19:10.720
It's important. You know, many times I've gone up to Catholics when I wasn't Catholic and I would say
00:19:14.500
like, Hey, you know, that you shouldn't call nobody father, or, you know, that baptism is just a symbol.
00:19:22.140
There's really nothing going on. Or the Eucharist is just a sign or it's a symbol. It's not really
00:19:27.260
his body and blood. You know, many times I've told people that and they're like, Oh, or why are you
00:19:31.560
praying to the saints? You're only supposed to pray to God, you know, different things like that. And
00:19:35.900
knowing your faith empowers you to be a strong Catholic so that you don't capitulate to their,
00:19:41.720
or like when you have a cross on, I've seen a lot of people, I've asked them, Hey, what is that
00:19:46.940
miraculous medal around your neck? And people will actually get it and they'll put it, Oh,
00:19:51.640
it's nothing. It's I'm Catholic. And they'll put it away, but they won't explain like who's on there
00:19:57.940
or what it means. Because knowing your faith, knowing why we wear the miraculous medals,
00:20:03.220
knowing why we wear the crucifix or why we pray rosaries, it's important because it empowers you
00:20:09.520
to be proud of being Catholic. This is the church that Christ built to that over 2000 years ago.
00:20:16.420
We're not a church from 400 years ago, like Protestants, or we're not even like 60 years ago,
00:20:21.060
like non-denominational churches who think they, they know everything. They've only been around for
00:20:25.020
60 years or the Mormons 200 years or Jehovah. When this is our church has been around for 2000 years.
00:20:31.440
And even our traditions of the rosary, you know, just the rosary was given before any of the other
00:20:36.400
churches were even built, or even like, you know, before some man built those churches.
00:20:41.580
And so it's important that we know why we pray it on why there's an intercession of the fates and
00:20:46.600
why we have the communion of the saints and how important their prayers are for us. Because we
00:20:52.000
see that there's a great cloud of witnesses in Hebrews 12, and they're up there cheering us on.
00:20:57.660
They're like in an arena up there in the Shekinah glory cloud. They're in that cloud in the sky where
00:21:03.300
God dwells. He's been dwelling since the Israelites, protecting them. He's also watching over us with
00:21:09.520
the angels and saints praying for us. They're praying for us in heaven. They're interceding
00:21:14.580
like the elders that are in revelations. They're offering our prayers in gold incense bowls to God.
00:21:23.140
These elders in heaven, those are the saints. They're doing it. But when we understand these
00:21:27.440
doctrines and not just say it or not just ask a saint to pray for us, but we can actually go into
00:21:33.520
scriptures and share, oh man, you know how strong you feel? They're like, whoa, I didn't know that
00:21:38.160
before. You will start making Protestants and all those other denominations capitulate. You'll start
00:21:45.000
making them back off the more you know your faith. It's more annual, but these are the things I want to
00:21:49.820
encourage people about doing. So once again, Eucharist and Mass, source and summit of our faith,
00:21:55.640
our 60 millimeter, praying the rosary. This side is, remember, the Catholic, the Bible is a Catholic
00:22:02.360
book. We've been preserving it for 2,000 years. We've been holding on to it through all the oppression,
00:22:08.580
through all, everything we've gone through, through the different emperors that were killing us off,
00:22:13.340
straight genocide on our faith that's been happening for the last 2,000 years. We still held bound to
00:22:18.640
those scriptures and we protected them, put them away. We kept preaching the gospel, even our oral
00:22:23.520
traditions, the Catholic faith, that's within us. We've been passing on before the Bible was even put
00:22:28.560
together. And no, King James wasn't the first Bible. I know a lot of Protestants think that. The Bible's
00:22:34.680
been together for 2,000 years. King James just put it together miraculously. So knowing our faith,
00:22:41.900
knowing the teachings, knowing the historicity of the Catholic church is vital. And you don't got to get
00:22:47.520
all deep into it and all theological. But just to know little points to help you defend it goes a long
00:22:54.520
ways. People will see that you're more than just a ritual Catholic. Or, you know, you're just a Catholic
00:23:00.020
who's been going on from his families, you know, cradle Catholic that's just been going. But you actually
00:23:04.440
love Jesus so much that you want to learn a little bit more about him. Because the more you learn about
00:23:09.920
Jesus, the more you know about the faith, the more you know about your family. And it always feels so good when you
00:23:14.980
know more about your family. It just brings this joy to your heart. It brings joy to God when we learn
00:23:19.620
more about our faith, when we have this hunger to learn more about it. We watch TV, people are on
00:23:25.340
YouTube, Instagram, scrolling, learning all kinds of other stuff like work. But when we actually learn
00:23:30.940
our faith, we're making God happy. It brings joy to his heart when we're in his word. And in his word,
00:23:36.260
he says that we should meditate on it day and night in Psalms 1, so that you can be like that tree
00:23:41.920
that's planted next to a river. That anything that you do, you'll always prosper. It'll always be
00:23:48.600
fruitful. You won't wither up. Why? Because our vines are always in the word. And we know that the
00:23:54.000
living word, not just the Bible, but the living word is Jesus. And he's given us the word so that
00:23:58.900
we can grow stronger in our faith. And so now this other part of the cross I'll get to is fellowship
00:24:04.440
and ministry is important. And I love you women out there. Most of the women serving in the churches
00:24:10.760
out there are so strong and vital, but men also like, it's important that we get together
00:24:15.580
because I noticed that a lot of women have a lot of ministries. I noticed men that we lack in our
00:24:21.560
faith, having these ministries where we get together. Thank God I'm around some really strong
00:24:25.580
men's ministries out here. I'll actually be speaking at a couple of these ministries,
00:24:29.900
be like 200 men together, 200 men after a men's mass at Sacred Heart Chapel in Rancho Cucamonga.
00:24:36.480
I'm going to be the keynote speaker there, June 17th. And then there's another men's breakfast.
00:24:41.000
That's about 125 men at St. Peter and Paul edify each other up. Oh, rise up, man of God. You know,
00:24:49.220
let's, let's rise up, men of God. Let's defend our family. Let's defend our faith. And when we
00:24:54.060
fellowship, we sharpen each other. We build each other up. We edify one another. We speak life into
00:24:59.520
one another. Fellowship and being involved in ministry at church. You can feel like an outcast if you're
00:25:05.600
just sitting in the seats. And I like to say being a pew potato. Like, you know, a lot of people just
00:25:10.940
go and they sit in the pews and they leave. Only 8% of our church actually serves in tithes. Let's get
00:25:16.700
more involved. So this is what I'm going to be speaking at these men masses.
00:25:21.760
Just a quick note before we return. If you would like to stay up to date on LifeSite's coverage of
00:25:26.480
the latest life, family and culture news, subscribe to one of our many newsletters by going to
00:25:31.380
give.lifesitenews.com slash subscribe. And if you'd like to help us bring our truth-telling
00:25:36.640
coverage to millions around the world, please consider making a one-time or monthly donation
00:25:41.220
at give.lifesitenews.com. And now back to the video.
00:25:47.540
Being involved in ministry and fellowship is vital to the growth. And the reason why I'm on fire like
00:25:52.180
this, it's not because of me. It's because I work every day. I work out my salvation every day with
00:25:57.680
fear and trembling. Almost mass every day. Adoration. I forgot to add that up here because
00:26:03.340
that goes with the Eucharist up here. Going to adoration too. I was just there this morning
00:26:07.280
before I prayed, before I came here because I was a little nervous, you know, a little nervous,
00:26:11.640
a little anxious. Just want to make sure that I'm getting Christ across. Not anything else,
00:26:16.320
but the price that he paid on Calvary. Sharing that with. We're the original evangelists. And I hope
00:26:23.240
that people can understand that, like I was telling you earlier, we're the original evangelicals.
00:26:27.680
We preach the gospel. We've been doing it for the last 2,000 years. People talk about people going
00:26:32.200
on missions nowadays. Oh, they're doing this or doing it. And we've been doing it for 2,000 years.
00:26:36.340
Why do you think there's a Catholic church on every corner of the earth? We're the original
00:26:40.520
evangelicals. We're the original Pentecostals. Our birthday's coming up. Hey, you know, the birthday
00:26:47.160
of the church is on the Feast of the Pentecost. You ask Pentecostals. I was at a Pentecostal church
00:26:52.140
one day and I told them happy birthday. And they go, what are you talking about? I'm like, what?
00:26:56.880
They didn't even preach about Pentecost on Pentecost. That is just the weirdest thing in the world. You
00:27:03.980
guys are Pentecostals, but you're not preaching Pentecost on Pentecost? Way out there. And so
00:27:10.640
we're the original Baptists because we've been baptizing. We've been baptizing since the beginning
00:27:15.340
when 3,000 were baptized right there in the book of Acts 2 42. They repented and were baptized for the
00:27:22.520
forgiveness of their sins. We've been doing it for 2,000 years. And so once again, cross-training.
00:27:28.500
I'll be speaking it. I'm also a speaker too, part of Toastmasters International. So praise God. He's
00:27:34.400
given me all these different things so I can go stronger in my faith, learn how to speak, articulate
00:27:39.260
in myself in a way that people can understand. Whether I'm speaking to guys who were homies,
00:27:44.620
I can bring myself to that level. Whether I'm speaking to intellectual men and women, or whether
00:27:50.240
I'm speaking to having to speak a little softer to older crowds, I learned to become all things
00:27:56.140
to all men, like Paul says, so that we can advance the gospel. There shouldn't be just one way of
00:28:01.460
evangelizing. And so this leads me to like a point I want to talk about real quick. It's like a new
00:28:06.520
evangelization. Like let's start opening the doors for everybody to start preaching. Because after
00:28:12.740
Vatican II, I know sometimes the language and people don't agree with some things, but the layman
00:28:19.020
is supposed to be evangelizing. We don't have a lot of priests, and there are a lot of times our
00:28:24.460
priests are very overloaded. One priest, 2,000 people, sometimes not even a deacon in the church,
00:28:30.920
sometimes only two with like 2,000 or 3,000 people, sometimes more in the parish. We as laymen
00:28:37.100
need to start standing up and evangelizing. And I'm saying evangelizing what Paul said,
00:28:42.400
Christ and him crucified. Sometimes our evangelists out there, they're so into apologetics. They're so
00:28:50.440
into theology that a big reason people are leaving the church is because they're finding it better in
00:28:56.320
Joel Osteen. Because they're finding it better at the non-denominational churches, actually.
00:29:02.560
You know, a lot of them are. They're going, why? Because it's the preaching. Praise God for mass.
00:29:07.740
That's mass. But outside of mass, there has to be something more where we're preaching Christ and
00:29:13.000
him crucified. And they're seeing our excitement. They're seeing our joy. They're seeing the
00:29:17.580
transformation. Because when we go to mass, it's about reverence. It's not about getting excited
00:29:21.920
like that in mass, even though I get excited every time I take the Eucharist. I love it so much.
00:29:27.060
It's not about that in mass. It's about revering God and worshiping God through the sacrifice right
00:29:32.780
there. But outside of that, what do we do? How do we get people to get more engaged? That's why
00:29:37.520
I came up with the cross training. So I want to engage with people who are leaving the faith or
00:29:42.960
with non-Catholic, non-Christians that are not, I mean, non-Catholic Christians and sharing with
00:29:48.640
them that the Holy Spirit's here. We evangelize. We preach the gospel. We've been doing it for 2,000
00:29:53.840
years with that encouragement and love using scriptures to back up everything that we say.
00:29:59.060
And so it's a big part of who I am. I'll actually be speaking at a little event that's non-Catholic
00:30:04.940
on Sunday. I am going to, and I'm going to be sharing a little bit of the faith there.
00:30:09.500
And I told them, if you guys want me to speak there, you guys want me to speak. I'm sharing
00:30:14.020
the Catholic church of 2,000 years of history. I won't go into all the doctrines. I'll read
00:30:18.540
right from scriptures, but I have to let people know that I'm Catholic. You guys are asking me
00:30:23.200
to come here to this event at this park. I have to let them know. If not, I'm not going
00:30:27.360
to go speak there, but I have to let people know that the church is here because a lot of people
00:30:31.360
say, man, I've never seen a Catholic like you, or it's a rarity that I see Catholics
00:30:35.520
like you. I say, no, there's a lot of Catholics like me. We're just in the woodworks. They're
00:30:40.060
building up this remnant coming out, and we're going to start coming out. We're going
00:30:43.720
to start preaching the gospel. We're going to start sharing the faith because there's
00:30:47.540
so many things that are going wrong in the world. I think it's time that another, because
00:30:52.000
everybody has their own ministry. We're all the body of the Catholic church. We're all
00:30:55.560
the body of Christ. But I think there needs to come more meaning to start coming out and
00:31:00.100
evangelizing and sharing the scriptures, the way the non-denominational churches do
00:31:04.280
it. It's because that's what's pulling people. That's what's pulling people towards their
00:31:09.320
churches. That's why I call myself a trans-matic. Yeah, so do you know what that means?
00:31:19.020
Yeah, so awesome. Yeah, I'm a trans-matic all the way. I'm a traditionalist. I go to a Latin
00:31:25.340
Mass weekly at San Secundo de Asti with Father James Lane out in Ontario, California. They
00:31:33.500
have a ministry called Lucio Missio that I'll be speaking at at the end of the month. And
00:31:38.700
I love it. I love the reverence. I love the adoration and reverence of God. I love the
00:31:44.240
traditionalists. They hold the Mass that I believe was being held. It may not be the same
00:31:48.440
form. I'm not going to say it's the same form, okay? Because it's evolved over time. But in
00:31:53.140
the catacombs, when we were hiding out from Nero and Domitian, those emperors that were
00:31:59.120
persecuting our church, I believe that the Latin Mass was the Mass that was being held
00:32:04.600
in the catacombs. So that's why I started going to the Latin Mass again all the way. The silence,
00:32:11.820
the way the priest speaks, he faces, what is it called?
00:32:17.180
Yeah, and so he faces towards the altar because he's focusing on God. It's not a focus on us.
00:32:23.260
Sometimes I go to a Latin Mass that's 1955, and sometimes I go to the Latin Mass that's 1962.
00:32:29.960
So there's those two different ones that I've learned about since I've now been attending them.
00:32:34.940
So sometimes we contribute a little bit with the choir and stuff like that. And sometimes it's all
00:32:39.800
about the altar servers and the priest standing in place of us being the audience back behind them.
00:32:46.660
And so I just, I love it. I love the homilies that come afterwards. For some reason, in the
00:32:52.080
traditional Masses, they don't hold up. There's not a time frame. They're not like, hey, we got 10
00:32:57.440
minutes for this homily. No, the homilies are like 30 minutes, 35, 40 minutes, and they're preaching
00:33:04.520
fire. Every single time I go, it is fire inside of there. So for the traditional Latin Mass,
00:33:11.280
there's a lot of respect and love that I have from it, especially because it's a part
00:33:15.860
of the, I want to say, correct me if I'm wrong, but I like saying it's a part of the
00:33:19.980
Apostolic Succession. It's been passed on, the Latin Mass, from generation to generation,
00:33:25.140
not just with the Pope and the Apostles and the Bishops being passed on and the priests
00:33:29.000
over the time, but that Mass has been passed on over time. Even though Counselor Trent has
00:33:34.700
now configured it to be what we see pretty much today, it's been passed on over the years.
00:33:39.460
It's been something we've been held, we can hold on to, whether you're in China, whether
00:33:44.280
you're in Japan, whether you're in Africa, whether you're in America, England, South
00:33:49.660
America, the Latin Mass always like kept us together. And so that is one thing I totally
00:33:54.860
respect and I honor about it, but I notice sometimes men and women in the Latin Mass can
00:34:02.880
be kind of awkward. And no disrespect to nobody out there, please. I don't want to
00:34:07.300
disrespect, but not very full of zeal, not on fire, like praise God, you know, like
00:34:12.620
after Mass, not in Mass, because that's worshiping, that's all about God, but
00:34:16.420
afterwards. And they lack a few things that I believe, that's why I'm a
00:34:21.080
charismatic, because I'm also part of a charismatic movement that's called El
00:34:25.000
Sembrador. It's called, they're charismatic. You should look them up, they're
00:34:29.940
really big too. They have big events where like last, what was it, like three months
00:34:34.040
ago, there was 8,000 women at the LA Convention Center. 8,000 women for three
00:34:39.660
days or for two days, for a weekend, worshiping and loving God. And a lot of
00:34:44.760
times, even though they're charismatic, if we're inside, like say, for instance, we
00:34:47.980
hold an event inside of a parish, most of the women are veiled up. So even though
00:34:53.080
these are charismatic, these women hold a lot of traditional roots. They still
00:34:58.020
hardcore into praying the rosaries, understanding the order of the church. It's
00:35:04.720
not really like it's different, but one thing I will say about the charismatic
00:35:07.720
movement that I enjoy about it is fellowship. I think it's important for us
00:35:14.940
to fellowship and speak life into one another. Like it says in Hebrews 10, 25,
00:35:19.520
do not forsake the gathering of the brethren, and not just in Mass, because we
00:35:23.360
needed to edify and build each other up. But we can't edify and build each other up if
00:35:27.200
we're just meeting in Mass, because Mass is about adoration and worship of God.
00:35:31.380
It's not about talking with our brothers and sisters inside of Mass. That's what
00:35:35.920
I adore about. And I go to a ministry every Friday night in Azusa, California,
00:35:39.980
where I'm actually part of the praise team. So I go up on stage and we sing
00:35:43.560
contemporary Christian songs, hymns, various different songs. Sometimes they'll
00:35:47.820
do a Gregorian chanter and Ave Maria, which is really nice. My leader is a really
00:35:52.540
great singer. And so we have testimony. Well, first we'll sing praise
00:35:57.020
music. This is a fellowship. This isn't Mass. This is a fellowship. We'll have
00:36:01.060
praise music. We'll sing a couple of praise songs. And then we'll go, somebody
00:36:04.440
will give a testimony of what God's doing in their life, how he's been
00:36:08.180
transforming their life and how he's moved in them, you know, and to see where
00:36:12.100
they're at today. After that, we'll get to have a guest preacher. I'll actually be
00:36:16.160
preaching there on my fellowship on June 23rd. And God's opening doors big time
00:36:22.920
for me. I thank him so much. I've been patient the last three years. Been really
00:36:26.640
patient with a lot of doors being closed on me. A lot of love. Don't get that
00:36:30.300
wrong. But I had to work my spot into there. Just like St. Paul. St. Paul, he
00:36:34.840
just wasn't giving to him there. He was three years in the desert. And then he had
00:36:38.160
to work after that because nobody wanted to trust who he was. So he kept on going
00:36:41.840
from place to place. That's kind of like how I am. I'm in San Bernardino, but I'm in
00:36:46.520
Orange County. I'm in Los Angeles. I'm in San Diego. I'm at all these
00:36:50.900
different parishes sharing the faith, even though I have my home. And so with the
00:36:55.820
charismatics also, we have preaching and then we'll have prayer afterwards. So we
00:37:00.480
have a guest preacher and then we'll pray with each other afterwards. We'll all
00:37:03.840
stand up and we'll get together and we'll pray together. You know, it's really
00:37:07.920
this like love of evangelization. They're big on evangelizing because we have a
00:37:13.020
ministry right now called I am the 73. And I am the 73 is, you know, while D has
00:37:18.940
created it, it's one thing to be a part of a ministry, which is the sower, El
00:37:22.660
Sembrador. It's E-S-N-E, which is the new, the sower, new evangelization. So El
00:37:30.240
Sembrador Nuevo Evangelization. So the new evangelization, it's actually where we
00:37:36.940
have support from the Pope. So, you know, Pope Francis, Papa Francis, he actually
00:37:41.480
supports us. He's actually, they've gone, Noel Diaz has gone to the Vatican
00:37:45.620
multiple times. And even when Pope Benedict and Pope St. John Paul II were
00:37:50.640
around, they both blessed this ministry. So it's not just a ministry that they
00:37:55.740
did. It's been around for about 30 years now, 39 years. So Noel Diaz has built it
00:38:01.140
up from the ground up and they have huge major events, mainly Spanish, but the
00:38:05.820
English has been starting to grow over the last 15 years. But they have that
00:38:09.960
evangelization, wanting to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with others. It's
00:38:14.420
important because I love the Latin, the traditionalists, but the traditionalists
00:38:18.280
are so much on reprimanding everybody else that they forget that we got to
00:38:23.080
preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. It's a, you know, we got to, we got to show
00:38:27.580
love. That's what Jesus did. Yeah, we reprimand. We have to. It's a part of, we
00:38:32.020
have to tell our brothers and sisters to turn away from sin. But at the same time,
00:38:36.580
Jesus didn't change hearts by hating them or by always picking on them. I believe
00:38:42.160
that. And then also at the same time with the charismatic, I believe there's
00:38:45.740
some things that maybe I don't totally agree with. Just like with the new mass,
00:38:50.020
I go to new mass too. And I love it because it's the Eucharist I go for, even
00:38:55.380
though I believe there should be some more reverence, kind of like holding up the
00:38:58.960
hands like this during the, our father. I don't agree with that because a priest is
00:39:02.620
doing that. And the reason why he's holding his hands up like this, because he's in
00:39:06.000
persona Christi and he's representing Jesus Christ on the cross when he holds his
00:39:11.020
hands up like this. That's why he does it. Or always genuflecting before you go in
00:39:15.120
your seats. Every time you hear the name of Jesus, bowing because every knee shall
00:39:19.720
bow before the name of Jesus. But we do it quick like this. Every time you hear
00:39:23.600
Jesus' name in the profession of the creed, the gloria, even because I'm a reader,
00:39:28.720
I'm a proclaimer of God's word. They say lector, but I know that's not the
00:39:32.240
correct word. Only a deacon and a priest can be a lector. So I'm a reader of God's
00:39:36.480
word. But even when I'm reading this last Sunday, I bow when I hear Jesus Christ's
00:39:41.200
name, you know, every time I know, like when we're just having a conversation, we
00:39:44.440
say Jesus name, you would be odd if I go like this every time. So I don't do it
00:39:49.300
every time. But when I'm in mass, I make sure that it's a part of who I am.
00:39:52.640
Those, those things they can learn from wearing the veil, even though you don't
00:39:58.180
have to, God, you're not going to go to hell if you don't wear a veil. But the Bible
00:40:01.640
tells women to wear a veil when they go in the church. So I believe that the new
00:40:05.680
mass and the old mass, the Latin mass, charismatics and traditionalists, we can
00:40:14.040
all learn a lot from one another. Why? It's like going to a reunion. Because I
00:40:19.040
know, I know charismatics that won't go or the new mass, people who go to new
00:40:24.240
mass that won't go to Latin mass. I know for sure traditionalists, it's a, you have
00:40:28.020
to drag them by the neck for them to go to the new mass. It's the Eucharist.
00:40:33.120
That's what it's about. In the end, it's all been said it's okay. And we're like a
00:40:37.660
family. So it's like going to a family reunion. I was saying, when you go to a
00:40:41.220
family reunion, you hang out with certain cliques of the family, you know, like
00:40:44.700
this is my family. These are my cousins or, and then the other family members are
00:40:48.700
over there, but they're still a part of the same reunion. We're still a part of the
00:40:53.280
same family. And we're still, we still love one another. And we shouldn't act
00:40:58.000
like I'm a traditionalist. And, and Vatican, please leave the traditionalists
00:41:03.460
alone. I love the Vatican. I love Pope Francis, but please leave the Latin mass
00:41:07.700
alone. Let it be. We have a lot of rights within our church. And, but when we start
00:41:12.640
seeing each other as a family, because we're not Protestant, so it's not like,
00:41:16.700
okay, this is the Latin mass and charismatics are Protestant. No, we're all
00:41:19.860
Catholics. We all follow the same teachings. We all follow the same
00:41:24.180
sacraments. We all follow the same Eucharist. We all follow the same
00:41:28.300
sacrifice of Jesus Christ dying on the cross for us. Veneration of the saints,
00:41:33.520
veneration of Mama Mary, you know, that hyperdulia, not just veneration, but that
00:41:38.300
hyperdulia, that highest honor of, of veneration that we give her. When we start
00:41:43.660
seeing each other in that aspect that we're families, we can grow because we have a
00:41:47.140
bigger enemy, y'all. We have the devil that doesn't want to see us happy. When we
00:41:52.420
are divided, we cannot stand tall together. And so that's why I call myself a
00:41:56.760
transmatic because I'm at both. Why? Because my goal in the end is to try, if I
00:42:01.800
can be just a little part of it, that starts bringing us back together as a
00:42:05.560
family. Let us not look at the things that we disagree on, but let's, let us look
00:42:10.360
at all the millions of things that we do agree on. If we got a scale right here, and I
00:42:16.020
put the things that traditionalists and charismatics or the new mass and the
00:42:20.660
Latin mass, the different, like things we agree on is this side. Things we don't
00:42:25.660
agree on on this side, this is a scale. It would be like this, like this arm would
00:42:29.480
be like this scale would be way up here. And this, this side that we don't agree
00:42:33.800
on would literally be on the ground. And it's for the love of Jesus Christ that he
00:42:37.940
founded on Peter, Matthew 16, 18, you are Peter, you are key, you are key for us. And on
00:42:43.360
this key for us, I shall build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail. You
00:42:46.860
know, he gave him the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever he bound on earth shall
00:42:50.300
be bound in heaven. Whatever he loose on earth, you got control of it. It's going to
00:42:54.360
be loose in heaven, brother. Pretty much Jesus was telling him. He gave him this full
00:42:58.680
authority and we're all a part of this body. And I just, I want us to start seeing more
00:43:04.400
of a love in our church because we're already combating against the
00:43:07.840
transgenderism, uh, against the, the pro-choice movement, all the ideologies, the, the say,
00:43:14.500
those fake Satan comms, come on, get real. It's so, so stupid, man. Sorry. Excuse me
00:43:19.900
right there, but it's just so stupid. The same cons saying doesn't love them, man. Like
00:43:24.300
it's ridiculous to even think about that. But when we start coming together in love and
00:43:29.040
seeing that, that we're all blood, we're all have the same blood. We all have the same
00:43:34.960
blood. We all have the same blood. It's the blood of Jesus Christ that runs through
00:43:40.060
our souls. And so that's where I'm, I'm really big on that. That's why I say I'm
00:43:44.440
traumatic. I want to bring us together more unity than just so much disunity. God's
00:43:49.620
good. He is indeed. And Eric, he's put a fire in your soul and, uh, you've been able
00:43:55.200
to share that with us and, uh, God willing affect a lot of us, infect a lot of us with
00:44:01.460
that same fire so that we too might go out and proclaim the word of the Lord. Where
00:44:06.420
can people find out, uh, and keep ahold of you?
00:44:09.560
Subscribe and, um, any feedback you have traditional it's at YouTube, traditional urban
00:44:16.360
Christian. So traditional urban Christian on YouTube. I put out a lot of shorts right
00:44:22.020
now. Plus, as you guys can see, I'm in the studios at Virgin most powerful radio. So
00:44:28.300
eventually, and I'm hoping in time after this, they think this is really big. They actually
00:44:32.360
called me to their studios because I come and film here. I do a lot of my shorts and
00:44:36.800
interviews that I've been doing lately. Like Alex, I got to give props out right now. Alejandro
00:44:42.420
Rodriguez is my brother. He's my friend. He's someone who's just, he's taken a part of my
00:44:49.600
heart that that's why you guys were able to hear about what God's doing in my life. You
00:44:55.820
know, I didn't expect him to do that, but Alejandro, I know you're going to be seeing
00:44:59.300
this. I love you, bro. He's an amazing individual. So I just wanted to make sure I brought him
00:45:04.300
up because if, if it wasn't for God's grace and Alejandro being my friend and sharing this
00:45:08.700
with you, cause he's your, he's your intern out here on the West coast. He does the editing
00:45:12.500
and stuff. Amazing young man on fire. That's I'll be speaking at his, um, his group on the
00:45:19.160
27th, the Lucio Missio, the traditional church out there at San Segundo. He's given me that
00:45:24.780
opportunity to share this zeal and this fire and what God's doing in my life. So once again,
00:45:30.000
if anybody wants to, um, subscribe or check out my channel, it's traditional urban Christian.
00:45:35.660
I'm sharing the faith in there. Anything I talk about, it's from scripture. Later on,
00:45:41.220
I'll go into more apologetics, but like I talk about mama Mary being the new Eve mama,
00:45:46.460
Mary being the new arc of the covenant. And I break it down in scriptures. And I do a lot
00:45:50.400
of shorts every day. Like today was bless the Lord of my soul, you know, and just talking
00:45:55.280
about his mercy and graces from Psalms 103, his mercy and graces that bestow upon all of us,
00:46:00.980
the different parables of Jesus, just sharing the faith in God's love. And if you guys have any
00:46:06.660
feedback, please leave comments. I, if you do leave comments, I will leave my email address.
00:46:11.880
I'll even say it right now. Traditional urban Catholic at gmail.com. I'm in the Southern
00:46:18.120
California area, sharing the faith, building up my brothers and sisters all for the glory of God.
00:46:24.980
Amen. Eric Tafoya, thank you so very much for joining us. God bless you.
00:46:28.920
Thank you. God bless you. You're doing a lot of great things. And I really, I line up with
00:46:34.340
everything you talk about. And so I'm hoping that we could do some work together because I'm the foot
00:46:38.660
soldier. I could be a foot soldier out here for you out in California too. I'm very active.
00:46:44.200
Awesome, Eric. Thank you. And God bless you. God bless all of you. And we'll see you next time.
00:46:49.700
Hi, everyone. This is John Henry Weston. We hope you enjoyed this program. To see more like it,
00:47:02.120
be sure to hit the subscribe button below to get all the latest content from LifeSite News. Check
00:47:07.040
the links in the description to read more and connect with us on social media so that you can
00:47:11.160
stay up to date with all the latest life, family, faith, and freedom news. Thanks for watching,