Oh my goodness. I felt that Bishop was talking directly to me! I am 70 years old, I lost my only baby grandson to trisomy 13, my only child/son to suicide in the military and I KNOW where I am headed and that eternal life begins right now. God bless you, Bishop for this message today…….I’m running that race to the finish line…….

@marthap4833

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God bless you, Patricia Boynton. Thank you for witnessing to your faith. Your life is a libation for us. Thank you, a million times.

@VeronicasVeil333

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@@marthap4833 Thank you for your kind and encouraging words!!💕✝️💕

@ds294

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May God encourage and strengthen you in your fight. May He bless you with life affirming friendship. May He console you.

@VeronicasVeil333

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@@ds294 thank you!

@georgiadavis8983

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May God bless you and hold you close to His heart💕

Thank Bishop Barron from a lapsed Catholic contemplating and struggling.

At 78 yo, I am near the finish. Been through it all. The good and bad. I can see God at the finish line. I won't finish first. But I will finish as first as I can.

@aknmo541

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I will remember your comment. Thank you! God bless you.

Thank you dear Rev.bishop. For more than 10 years, I have listened to your Sunday homily & many other lectures. I am a consecrated religious for more than 75 years. To prepare my own funeral, I have chosen this passage from Paul’s letter to Timothy as the second reading in my funeral Mass. From a Buddhist family converted to Catholicism when I was 8 Yr-old, I do understand the word ‘ pour out as libation’ . Thank you for reminding me again & again the deep & special love the Lord has for me all my life, despite my frequent lapses. Thanks to your constant encouragement as well as keeping me humble. Please pray for me till my last call from God that I may truly say: with His help I have fought a food fight!

Señor Jesús, te pido que me des esa fuerza qué tenía San Pablo, esa fuerza en el espíritu santo pelear contra toda adversidad,circunstancias cómo lo hizo tu apóstol Pablo y con confianza emprender día a día 🙏🏻✝️gracias Bishop Barron

Oh, thank you, Bishop! At 79yrs in a wheelchair and becoming quite fatigued, I’m grateful for the lovely exposition of this Scripture! I’ve followed HIM for 73yrs by my Evang/Protestant definition! And by HIS grace recently into Communion with the Church (2 yrs)…I sense a need to begin ‘putting the last things in place’ for my ‘release or departure’ into Eternity! My children and friends don’t want me to speak of it, but I’m genuinely looking forward to my ‘new address and assignment’‼️ I have little of the world’s riches, but I’m preparing little gift bags for my loved ones (those for whom I pray, daily) I’m also aware my ‘departure time’ may be on hold for reasons known only to HIM! But either ‘here or There’, I glory in His Cross and my salvation…🤗 Thank you for helping to prepare me more fully for “that day,” Bishop!! Thanks be to GOD!!

@CalYenne

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O me too. Although I will turn 60 in January. My body is severely broken by many mistakes and ignorant choices made by demand of ignorant doctors. As to the thought of dying, I wrote a prose piece in High School in hopes that He would take me soon. That obviously wasn’t His timing either. In asking for my patience, Our Loving Lord has opened more and more doors to me about my Catholic Faith, and I’m looking forward to doing a Catechism in a Year in January concurrently with the Bible in a Year study which I started in August. I’m trying to slow down my ADHD zeal to do things so that my quieted mind can hear the Holy Spirit guide me through my day. And before my journey began, I was blessed with two episodes of Ecstasy when I reached up to God during depression for Him because with (clinical) depression I cannot hear His voice or feel His presence - it is Pure Hell by the strictest definition of Hell to be without God. Oh boy do I want to be closer to God so much. I guess my favorite song is by George Harrison “My Sweet Lord” when he’s agonizing about not being with God. Me, too. But as all the great theologians have said before me, I am being purified through learning, practice and trials. I strive to understand what He wants me to do and do it Right, which as zealous ADHD person I don’t get it completely right most times. So back to your point, I too want to “pack my bags for anywhere closer to the Lord.” I’m not afraid to die. “Now would be Great Lord,” I am saying; but He’s reply is “Not until you clean up your room.” ;-) {which for this ADHD person is a deep Mess!} “Ah Lord…” Sign me as Striving to Love you like Christ, Anne

"Finish the race." This is oddly inspiring. Being in the middle of the race, raising children, providing a safe home for my daughters and husband, "hitting the wall," resonates with me. It can be tedious. It can be monotonous. It can feel defeating, at times. Finishing the race, pouring out all I have to give my daughters the best start in the beginning of their race, is worth every ounce of my being. Thank you Bishop for another inspiring homoly. 🙏

@VeronicasVeil333

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Beautiful! Your daughters are blessed!! Blessed be God!

@Leo-mr1qz

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@@VeronicasVeil333 Thank you. 😊

@catherinevolk4967

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So true! I can relate as well at age 63. Thank you good Bishop for such a profound message.

@barbarasoondar43

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Listening to our Bishop during these homilies, I am challenged in so many ways, to look beyond...to stretch more...to surrender more.. Lord help me.

God bless you Bishop Barron!

“I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.” This is my favorite scripture. My goal in life is to say this at the end. Please God may I always keep fighting.

@irisgonzalez-caulder9352

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l could I must expose and piece together a puzzle-rompe cabeza of criminal defense colleague defending irma hernandez-🤔cano? and partners jennifer-lynn-mary. Their criminal defense of clients and colleagues has intentionally and knowingly slandered my mom as a theif and as per Miami Beach I as an adulterer nor am I God the Spirit and don't know he did or didn't marry a virgen. I nor my mom DIDN'T disrespect anyone in the law firm nor say nor do something to cause someones disrespect until someones ignorance of my morals self-respect intercept a game comical "va selina" and blue tiger there ISN'T reason of your thinking and NOR cause of your thinking NOR an explanation of a misunderstanding I could than understand your misunderstanding I'm not 100% sure that Miami Beach is the one started case of criminal defense of irma and their former employee jennifer and preference client mary and Veterans lynn also had preference NEVER my mom and I my mom her granddaughter and son-in-law and oldest daughter 6 - 7 yrs of deception lying to us - 2007 - 2013 or 14 all in Brets ears my moms witness Comical isn't it all BC before Jesus Christ and the Creator of the universe sounds as mockery of the sons and the daughters of God and to their competition comedy hello darkness my old friend because my mom is my life reason and reason of life and in her Christ-Spirit heart more Christ-righteousness and Christ-integrity than everyone that knew my mom before 2012 and each and everyone put together that had the privilege after 2012 that met my mom Their professional theft of $234,000 and secret and lynns $250,000 mortgage on my moms rental owing just $ 56 - 57,000 in 2008 and jennifer kept my moms $140,000 lynn lent her as per jennifers request. Any lawyer saying my mom "gave?" jennifer money he and/or she is deceptive 40' Anaconda Jim and Susy lie bay shun coo tre mal clever implicating of pronunciation Jim and Susy you may always kip at the end please god rocky 5 DR JMC JR ran and runs the race DR RMC also RMC JR DR AA car tag - JSR W66 beside the 2 great-white cars at Los Parados Restaurant on 72 Milam Dairy NW at 6:15 - 7AM on October 17-20 Miami Herald Tropical tranquilo tropical asocialynnBRET QUESTION BRET he's as you know the witness 2008 - 2012 of my mom and so your comical implicating of my mom and perhaps the fraudulent 🎥 movie I told Bret a few times lawyers resource to unknown to me name of company of facial resemblance I say this because a text our brother in Christ Valerio my moms brother sent her 2 - 3 days prior her departing going to heaven. And handyman Garcia my mom and I met at Lowes he look like my dads twin That now I'm writing and stop to look for her phone as evidence and I don't find her phone. Folks could use Bret and discard evidence but folks can't nor don't nor won't discard God from He being the Spirit of truth and justice in your double lives. And I just found my moms phone as evidence

@oooloo99

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I reported criminal activity. I did not stop. Now I am still under slander attack and attempts at framing me. (By the way they OWN many young people, for false accusations). In your community do not let slanders get away with this------ it puts fear in the community.

@jimselimos4863

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i pray that i may say the same at the end of my Life.

@irisgonzalez-caulder9352

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@@jimselimos4863 you sent this to me at 12:51 PM you been laughin' way to many decades and or years 2013 - 2022 and I ain't Walt Disney but the mind of Christ is within me

@irisgonzalez-caulder9352

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Jim and Susy thumbs up I MUST say this verse at the end I have fought the good fight

Thanks to Bishop Barron l see l must finish the race amen

The only thing we go into heaven with is what we gave away while on earth 😮😮wow!!! Lord help us to focus not so much on receiving but more in giving. Amen🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

When I was a kid at mass I always thought the letters of Paul were boring compared to the gospels, but now that I've learned more about the scriptures I know I was so incredibly wrong. They're so incredibly fascinating and powerful. Love sermons like these that help me understand them better.

@freddo6941

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This is so much of my spiritual life. It took me a little while to grasp how profound some things are.

@jimselimos4863

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i did, too, thanks for sharing!

@jimselimos4863

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@aaa bbb, sir or madam, i m all for understanding all other beliefs on earth, but when can one say that other beliefs are injuring our beliefs? Everyone on earth may believe what they desire, so what gives you the Right to attack my Faith on a website for Faith in God?

@jimselimos4863

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@aaa bbb thank you, i will try to see that!

@michaelhaywood8262

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They are complementary to the Gospels and Acts.

We have our journey here. With our last breath, a new journey begins.

@caroleroy742

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Beautiful... 💖

@carolr9581

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@@caroleroy742 👍✝️

I read this reading at my Dad’s funeral mass. If there were ever a man who fought the good fight, finished the race and kept the faith…it was my dad and it took every bit of self control not to lose it while reading that it bit of scripture. Love you Dad and hope to see you in heaven someday!

Peace be with you, God bless you 🙏

Thank you, Bishop Barron. Your Sunday Sermons always fire me up to keep the faith and spread The Word in my own little way.

@pfdrtom

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My wife and I go to mass on Sunday but Wednesday evenings are a Bishop Barron video night! Best wishes to you, Laureen...from Tom and Eileen in Texas.

@DAndrewilliams527sonicfan

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I enjoyed listening as i complete my formation

@laureenclarke5485

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@@DAndrewilliams527sonicfan God bless you. My husband is a recent convert too.

@CalYenne

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I’m a semi raised Catholic. I didn’t get my middle school faith formation. It’s a gapping hole that’s very hard to fill. My parish confirmed me on Social Justice instead of teaching me the basics. I’m limping along trying to learn it here and there. Even buying middle school faith formation classes makes me look like a sexual predator. What a mess I am. I’m running the race with a two wheeled tricycle and no training wheels. Not very athletic but always challenging. ~anne

@jimselimos4863

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Prayers for us all

One of your best Bishop Barron - if not your best!

God Bless you Bishop Barron. You are a unique and extraordinarily gifted leader. Thank you for your amazing wisdom and guidance.

Thank you Bishop, God Bless you

Thank you Bishop Barron ❤️🕊

Bishop, you are so correct when you say that your life will change when the concept of emptying out sticks. It did for me. I tried to fill up with so many things over the years. Even when I got them it didn't make me happy. Sometimes that made it worse. When I grapsed this concept and started reading the gospel I realize how so many things I thought were so important were indeed "rubbish." I vowed to God to give myself to him and to remain with Him no matter where He has me or what season I'm going through.

@fatheralex8505

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We have starting power. We need staying power!

Bishop Barron does such a great job of deepening our understanding of Paul’s words! These are the words I chose on my beloved husband’s headstone (who was a great athlete and competitor). He fought the good fight whenever he could defend the rights of unborn children and he kept his Catholic faith which brought me back to the Church. May God bless you all.

Your words always inspire me to keep going...getting confirmed at 59 :) I'm in RCIA..yes I will finish my race. God Bless your words of wisdom and fire

@VeronicasVeil333

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Congratulations!

The race has only just begun, and hopefully it will take eaons to finish.

Thank you, Your Excellency, for this very uplifting homily on perseverance. St. Paul's Epistles are very encouraging and direct, and you have brought the Epistle of 2 Timothy to life! I believe that I speak for many of us watching who gain so much from your work. You are in my prayers. Godspeed!

God bless you, Bishop Barron. For us Young priest. You are a role modle

@marypinakat8594

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Thank you for being here Father☆ Your presence is a blessing☆God bless you heaps☆

@dansoabeam3745

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@@marypinakat8594 Ámen and bless you too

God blesss you and protect you Bishop

God bless you Bishop Barron, for providing the kind of Catholic education we all should have received in Catholic school. Always pure Gold!!

Thank you for your teaching. I hope woth God’s help amd guidance I can fight a good fight and finish this race. God bless you Bishop. 🙏🏼🙏🏼✝️✝️

May you live long servant of our Lord. Bishop Baron is indeed a blessing to us🙏🏾 let us all finish the race and keep the faith

I love the new closings.

Thank you, that we may also finish the race

By God he kept the faith 😀

May we all fight the good fight, finish the race and keep the faith in polarizing times.

This speaks so strongly to me as I had to stop in the middle of a 24-hour race yesterday 57 miles deep due to a leg injury. It was my first ever event. I had hoped to reach 100. I cannot wait to come back next year and finish that race. I'm a born-again Christian and I carried my cross, both literally and figuratively, with me all day yesterday, and was able to enjoy various moments of both secular and spiritual fellowship with some like-minded masochists. Thank you so much, Bishop Barron. I kept hearing your voice at times - Gloria Dei est vivens homo! 🙏❤🙌

Bless u Bishop. And this from a non Catholic

Thank you Bishop. This was one of the readings from my mother’s funeral a year and a half ago. It spoke to me then for her life. And it spoke to me today for my life. God bless you.

"Fight the good fight. Finish the race. Keep the faith." Thank you, Bishop Barron x

Again ,thank you bishop for these insights. I think How bless I am for your talks such food for my journey of faith

Thank you Bishop ! Blessings! 🥰

We are but jars of clay, unless we are filled with the Holy Spirit, we are empty.

Fight the good fight, Keep the faith amidst the trials and tribulations of life, and finally Finish the Race, As we await the reward for which no eye has seen, nor has any ear heard nor has it been perceived by any mind, what our Lord has for us!

Saint Paul a favorite of mine. In his letters his love of Jesus is so evident, and as you speak about his letter to Timothy ; I am reminded of our commitment to God our Father at 83 I pray that I continue the race . Praying I am in His graces, and pleasing Him in every way. God bless you Bishop Barron 🛐☦️🙏

Thanks Bishop Barron,. Very inspiring sermon. 😀

I need to hear this. Caring for a husband who has AD is a tough journey and often I wondered if I could go on when I was “hitting the wall”. Bishop Barron, you had said that suffering can be a gift from God and although I can’t see it as such right now, I believe it because of the lives of the saints who suffered so much more than what we’re going through now. Thank you for this uplifting homily and please pray for us.!

@tracybrophy6767

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You WILL see one day what your freely offered suffering has brought in blessings to other souls and your own. Praying you receive God's consolation and endurance. Much love to you!

“By God, he finished the race”. May we all do the same. ✝️📖

Thank you. Bishop Baron.✝️🕊️🙏

Wow what a beautiful sermon. As I read through the comments everyone can so relate to every word you spoke. We have all struggled with something in our lives… some more than others but there is a sequence of events that take place in this struggle to reach the end and we all want to get to the end of the race. There is something so powerful in “fighting the good fight”.

Needed this one B-B!

Oh Jesus son of David, let me have my spiritual sight again, and thank you for your servant Bishop Barron, May be be resplendent with heavenly blessings

Very encouraging ,nice sermon! Especially for me as I have experienced running in real physical races too. .Our life is like that of a long distance race....Greetings from Colombo Sri Lanka with Christian Catholic love for all people of good WILL! Glory to God in the highest and peace to all!👍💖🙋🙌🌹🌹🌹

I love you Bishop Barren; you have changed the whole course of my life!❣️

“Oh, Lord, rescue me from foolish pride and help me learn from Your gentle and humble heart! Gracious Father, reprogram my soul with your Word to remember the world is all about Jesus and not myself. Help me not think more highly of myself than I ought, but to delight in regarding others as more important.”

@VeronicasVeil333

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I love this🌹

@jeanonyeagwara4949

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'I love it too!

Life experience from Bishop Barron is so valuable. Thank you.

Thank you for your energy Bishop Barron for you Sunday Fire Seremon😍🌺🌺🌼

I pray that at the end of my earthly journey I will share Paul’s thoughts in this scripture passage. I pray that I will have poured my life out in love to others. To have been a conduit of the graces that I’ve received and freely given away. To feel as though I’ve done it all for God’s glory. That for me would be a life well lived. I’m ready to enjoy the heavenly banquet with my beloved Jesus.

Wonderful!! Brings hope in place of fear into the moment of death... Through faith in Jesus.

I love your beautiful, intelligent and always inspiring Sunday Sermons. Thank you so much Bishop Barron!!

Inspiration

Thank you, Bishop. I really needed to hear this. You can’t imagine how much you’re helping people who listen to your homilies and speaches.

Thank you, Bishop Barron. God bless you.

@patogo0

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Thank you Bishop 🙏😇🙏❤

This is the test I went straight to when my sister passed an excruciating death in UCLA

God bless all ❤️❤️❤️we are racing the race Jesus l trust in you 💝💝💝💝💝💝🙏

Thank you Bishop Barron May GOD bless you, protect you, and keep you safe from all harm and danger. GOD bless you. ➕ ❤

Thank you father for reminding us that it's not just about 'me and Jesus.' But about me and Jesus and everyone the Lord brings into my life. 💗🙏💗

The first race was in our mother's womb, where out of hundreds and thousands only one came to the end to receive life and a body. Let no one say they didn't choose to live, that life was forced upon them. We all choose to live and must make that choice anew daily, to serve and strive after qualifying, to win a crown that will not fade away.

Bishop / How encouraging was this message! with tears I received it / The wisdom embedded in it / May we, as Saint Paul did, keep the faith and finish the race! 🙏

Bishop Barron speaks with the power of the holy Spirit. I told the Lord yesterday I would be happy if I was rich then Bishop Barron drops this.

Glory and praise to our God! Thank you, Bp. Barron.

Your Eminence, Thank you for your encouraging sermon. God Bless.

For years now I've admired St Paul as a hero and the reading today has been my favorite passage, but I didn't know why until this video. Thank you Bishop Barron.

Another great sermon from from a wonderful bishop who is running the race well. May we all do the same.

Salve Maria Madre de Dios

Amazing stuff! BB is so inspiring not only to me personally but surely to all who are willing to pay attention to this brilliant interpreter of the Christian message! Let us pray that they make him its next Holy Father!

Without God's grace there's not even a beginning to a race. Call around 1st and knock at God's door and ask His advice about your plans. Then with divine approval on board, only then respond to the starting pistol.

Thank you Bishop. God bless you too.

Thank you Bishop Barron 🙏

Thanks Bishop

Thanks Bishop very much for this brilliant sermon🙂

A beautiful sermon. The saints have always inspired me for that exact reason… they kept the faith(in service to others) and finished the race. And even more inspiring the saints that fought illnesses… ministering in illness….a powerful testimony to faith and finishing the race. ♥️✝️ Isn’t that the real reason they were saints…they made it to the finishing line…(in faith and service)

I feel almost lethargic and dulled up in the spiritual life, this has been going on for the past month. So im in the middle of the race huh… still a LONG way to go. Pray for me that i may finish the race🙏

@nobodynobody4389

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I will pray for you I'm experiencing similar state and couldn't fathom what it was until now.

Thank you, Bishop Barron. Good counsel for the journey. "Finish the race" says it all. God bless.

Right on, Father. Mary parker

Love Bishop Barron!

Excellent sermon! Thank you for sharing, Bishop Barron. Love & Shalom!

Thank you Bishop Barron. Your homily gives me much to think and pray about as well as being encouraging.

If we truly believe and live the Gospel life we will never be successful in this world but successful in heaven.

Bishop Barron is such a good speaker with wonderful sermons that are inspirational and heartwarming. Thank you Bishop for your dedication and love for doing the Lord.’s work and spreading his Truth.

Thank you Bishop Barron 👏 God Blessi you always 🕊️✝️❤️

Better Late Than Never... 🇬🇧..🎵..🎧..✌

This is excellent!!!! thank you Bishop Barron

This inspired me so much that I am listening to it right now for a second time while having breakfast to also take notes. Thank you Bushop Barron.

*Bishop Robert Barron:* Think of the whole of your life as a preparation for the real journey, which is the journey into the infinite love and mercy of God, into the life of Heaven☆

May God and our Blessed Virgin Queen bless and save us all!!!

@seth8844

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Mary can't save you, only God

@jimselimos4863

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@@seth8844 i m sorry, but these are my beliefs, if you don't agree with me that is fine.

Thanks Bishop for spreading the word of God. ❤❤

Thank you Bishop. Being in norway we are starving for God's word for our soul.

@tracybrophy6767

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God's blessings be with you!

Another excellent homily. Made me think of the opportunity presented by those who have hit a spiritual wall for us to reach out and help them finish the race as well. Thank you!

@michelledonnanwhodoesntkno5771

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Who is this "text me"?? It's not Bishop Barron so don't text anything to that number thinking it's him.

Bishop Barron , ThankYou !

I long to keep the Faith; Trusting; Finishing the Race!

Thank you