Father Dan Reehil

Thank you, buddy.

You're welcome.

Now, I gave you a rosary today.

So you have one back.

Like mine, the one I gave you is from this place called Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

And that rosary was in the room during the apparition of Our Lady to one of the visionaries.

At the end of the apparition, she blessed all of the sacramentals in the room.

So the rosary that I gave for you and your wife have both been blessed, not just by me with the priestly blessing, but by the mother of God herself blessed those rosaries.

Don't give those away.

I won't.

Long Island, New York, Williston Park.

It's about 18 miles east of Manhattan.

Brothers, sisters?

I'm the oldest of four, and two years after me is my sister, and then two years after her is my middle brother, Jimmy, and then my little brother, Brian.

It was almost 10 years after me.

Yes.

There really was no devout Catholic in 1965 because Vatican II did such a number on removing the awe and the splendor of God from the mass sort of.

And I don't know they did it on purpose, but it definitely was a byproduct where there's a lot of felt and a lot of Jesus loves me and really no firm catechesis in what actually is our role as Catholics, as Christians, baptized, and what does God want from us and what does he expect from us?

And it was just love God and do whatever you want was kind of the message.

But my parents were good Catholics.