Father Dan Reehil

So I know it's going to happen.

And I need it.

I need it because...

it's not me that goes out into the day to help these people it's god and he works through me but it's his grace it's his power and uh if i don't get filled up on him i'm kind of worthless for the rest of the day and then i'm just really a social worker thank you for answering that i have uh i have some some personal questions one of them is

That is very true.

If you think about the church, when Jesus chose these 12 men to go out and make disciples of all nations, when he ascended to heaven and they took up this mission, and it was a big mission, imagine.

And they're not particularly qualified either, mostly fishermen.

They go forth, but now they have the Holy Spirit, because the Pentecost has happened, and they are set ablaze with the Spirit.

The same Spirit that led Jesus his whole 33 years is now in those men, and it's now in us if we're baptized, particularly if you got confirmed too.

You get sealed with that Spirit, same Spirit.

And they go forth.

But there's also a persecution happening because the leaders of Jerusalem, and you could even say in Rome and all over the world, they don't want this new religion.

So if they catch you, you die.

So the first, I think, 32, 33 popes were all martyred.

So if they said to you, we just elected you pope, it was a way of saying you're about to die because they're killing everybody.

And now you're a public figure that says you're leading this new church.

And as such, there were no brick and mortar churches because how could you build the church?

It'd be a big red flag.

Here's where we worship.

Come and kill us.