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Hey everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the Catholic Talk Show. Today we're joined by

Father Sam Medley. And this priest in the last year has lost over 100 pounds,

and there's a lot of great physical and spiritual advice that he has to share with you,

especially as we head into the new year.

Stay tuned. All right, Father Sam, it's a pleasure to have you on, a pleasure to speak with you in person.

We've known each other for over a decade, but this is the first time we're actually ever having

words together. So thanks for coming on, and great to finally get a chance to meet you.

Thanks, Ryan. It's great to be here. Really excited to be here to talk about this topic.

Yeah, and Father Sam has went through an amazing transformation in this last year.

And I think it's something that a lot of people out there are going to get a lot of inspiration from and a lot of guidance.

Because, you know, priests not only have a lot to say to us about spirituality, but they also have a lot to say to us about the mundane

aspects of life because there's so much tied into the everyday life that ties into your soul.

And I think a lot of times what happens in modern culture is that there's a divorce between

the physical and the spiritual. We start to become kind of, I don't know, dualistic,

right, where we think of ourselves as not one union between body and soul. And we say, oh,

we'll finally be released from our body and our soul will float off. But even if we look at the

creed, I look forward to the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting, that there's a union

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