Welcome to another episode of the Catholic talk show. Today we're going to be talking about fatherhood with father Mark Mary of the CFRs.

Yeah, we're going to get the opportunity to talk to father Mark Mary about his new book, The Father, which contains 30 meditations on Fatherhood, both divine spiritual and temporal.

I'm so excited about learning more about your ministry, Father Mark, and to realize that Jesus'

word is still with us, and his word was that the Father's love would abide in us as the Father loved Jesus so Jesus has loved us and he wants us to abide in that love and you're going to learn all about that in this beautiful episode. And then. All right, Father Mary, welcome to the podcast. This is your first appearance, and we're really

grateful to have you here today. Thanks, guys. I'm really, yeah, grateful to be you here today. Thanks guys I'm really yeah grateful to be with

you all. So father for those of you out there listening who don't know

Father Mark Mary's with the CFRs he's on a bunch of podcasts I'm sure you've seen him on

Poco a poco but he's got this new book which is focusing on meditations

30 meditations on the father and fatherhood is such a wound in today's society in today's culture. I think one of the biggest things that's negatively impacting our ability to love each other, to move forward as a society to have a growing church and a growing nation is the

fatherhood wound that so many people in our world experience.

So this meditation I think can help us draw us close to even those of us who were

lacking in a biological father to find that solace and to find true fatherhood in God the father.

So very exciting, I think a very necessary episode and a very necessary topic to discuss.

Yeah, and I just, I've got to say like, as somebody who have had, I've had wonderful fathers in my life, but it as a product of divorce, you know, that need for the

is just such a fundamental need of all of our hearts.

So if you have the most amazing dad or you've never even known your father, we all need a

heavenly father and what the heavenly father provides to us is just far more

rich than we could ever imagine. So Father Mark Mary, Mary you know what was the fundamental experience

that moved your heart and your love of the father to even approach this work and and what was happening for you like

spiritually that that inspired it.

Yeah, you guys are all over it and in a certain sense, if you will, the remote sort of preparation

leading to this book actually came from hearing a story about a biological father

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