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I just have to tell you guys that with out your podcast, I would not be so re-interested in my Catholic faith. Listening to the comments about Captain Kirk’s chair on the alter was very funny. It made me realize that I was very into my faith when I understood that we ( priest and us sheep ) have a life and even in fun, our faith is the center of it. When I was an alter boy, I was properly instructed on how to knot the belt and how to properly bow by a priest who was so at the time scary. Now, when I look back to Father Ferran, he was like the coolest man I knew of the cloth. He was a chaplain in the British Royal Air Force during WW II and was based in the Middle East. He had a rule that if you signed up to serve Holy Week, you better be there otherwise don’t come back. We had training for the first couple of days of the week and then off to do all the masses. Our parish was in a rural farming community so you could not hide from Father. If the three of us alter boys pulled together during the week, he would take out for a buffet lunch and a movie. Looking back now and all the conversations we had with him and of his life experiences, I feel so blessed to have known retired Captain Father Ferran of the RAF. During one night serving stations, a friend of my brothers was serving with us and Father told Jeff, Don’t be swinging the insence burner around. Keep that chain straight.” It was a howl. He had the burning insence “cloud” going straight up his alter server rode sleeve and coming out his lose neck line. After to listening to this pod cast tonight, my family and I went to Ash Wednesday mass. I am sad to say that is was the first time since high school that I was there for ashes and I am even a CCD and JYM teacher. I think it was a little bit of Father Ferran and you that incouraged me to make the interuption in my so called busy life and remember what is truely importain.

Thank you and God Bless !

Tom Sullivan