You're listening to the Jeff Kavans show, episode 35. How do I explain Catholicism to my friends?

Hey, I'm Jeff Kavans. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible?

All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general.

It's the Jeff Kaven Show.

Welcome to the show, my friend.

Hope you're having a wonderful, wonderful week.

And I hope you're growing in the Lord and spending time in prayer, reading the word and listening to the guiding of the Holy Spirit as a modern day disciple.

I'll tell you since I have started to think about my walk with the Lord more from the

perspective of being a modern day disciple than just a believer or or putting a label on myself, which is not bad, don't get me wrong, I am a Catholic

Christian through and through. But I wake up in the morning and the first thing I think of is that

I am a disciple of the Lord, I'm a follower of the... in the And every day things can change and every single day there are opportunities to do great things and

to encounter wonderful people and to call on God in very interesting situations.

And so that, you know, following Jesus really does make life worthwhile

and just his friendship and his companionship and knowing that I've got the Saints got my back and I've got the

Eucharist the sacraments I've got the word of God the catacism, the Holy Spirit, my God, the Father, Jesus, my brother and King and

Lord, Mary is my mother.

It just, we're so blessed, you know, to go on this journey to have so many wonderful wonderful things to assist us

but you know what I have run into in my own life particularly at the beginning of

coming back to the Catholic Church after being away for about

15 years in Protestant circles was this this whole problem of how do I how do I get my arms around Catholicism and this is a

question that I have been asked many many times by people on the road when I'm

speaking or I get an email or a text and it simply you know kind of

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