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Hi, listeners of the Daily 
Gospel Exegesis Podcast, thanks 

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so much for your ongoing support
for this ministry. 

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And welcome to this special 
announcement episode where I 

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wanted to share some exciting 
news about a couple of new 

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podcasts that we're launching. 
So I wanted to tell you a bit 

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about these podcasts. 
It might be the kind of thing 

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that you're interested in. 
If you like the approach that 

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the Daily Gospel Exegesis 
Podcast takes, then you might be

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interested in this as well. 
So these two new podcasts are 

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going to be about church 
documents. 

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We're going to look at Catholic 
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Now, the first thing I want to 
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assure you that Logical Bible 
Study is going to continue to do

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everything that it's already 
been doing in terms of studying 

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the Bible. 
The main focus of this ministry 

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will always be looking at the 
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people understand what that text
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So everything is going to keep 
running as it has. 

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The Daily Gospel Exegesis 
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has. 
The bonus exegesis episodes are 

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going to continue to be 
published on Patreon. 

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I'm also working on creating 
verse by verse exegesis in 

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chronological order for all of 
the four of the Gospels and 

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making them available as audio 
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As you know, that's already 
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Mark, and we're getting closer 
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other Gospels as well. 
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we're working on because lots of
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chronological study of each of 
the Gospels, and we want to make

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that available to you. 
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doing some verse by verse 
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Bible as well as the Gospels. 
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projects on the go that Logical 
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And it's largely thanks to the 
support of many generous donors 

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on Patreon who make it possible 
for us to keep all of these 

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resources happening and also to 
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one. 
So thank you so much to those of

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you who have donated to the 
Logical Bible Study Ministry. 

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So we are at a point where we 
can launch a couple of new 

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projects. 2 new podcasts are 
going to be launched and I want 

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to tell you a bit about them. 
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involve reading key documents of
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So listening to the text of the 
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Why are we doing that? 
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podcasts focusing on church 
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Well, I think it's an extension 
of a couple of key goals of the 

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Logical Bible Study Ministry. 
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this ministry and the Daily 
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always been to help people read 
and understand the text. 

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We're not doing social 
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political commentary. 
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understand the very text of the 
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When it comes to the Bible, I 
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heard the text of the Bible, but
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And the goal of Daily Gospel 
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understand that text better. 
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documents, like papal documents 
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dicasteries and other teaching 
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that there's a related but 
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And the problem with that is 
many Catholics have never heard 

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the texts at all. 
They've heard the names of these

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famous papal documents or famous
church documents, and they might

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see a bit about it in the news, 
but they've never actually read 

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the documents. 
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Catholics that we do get to hear
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And so that's what we want to do
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We want to give you the text of 
these church documents because a

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lot of it relates specifically 
to Catholic teaching, provides 

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clarification on Catholic 
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new circumstances. 
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Catholics know our faith. 
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want to focus on making these 
podcasts about church documents,

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which is this ministry has 
always been about making 

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podcasts and resources which 
fill a gap in the Catholic media

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world. 
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that's not already out there. 
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there which do general Catholic 
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interviews about theology. 
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exegesis was to provide 
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I went looking myself to see if 
I could find a verse by verse 

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exegesis of the mass readings 
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So that's why we created daily 
Gospel exegesis to give you a 

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breakdown verse by verse every 
single day in audio form of the 

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mass readings. 
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podcast world, there is no 
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is giving people the text of 
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church documents when they're 
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podcast archives, it looks like 
a couple of people started to 

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some church documents, but they 
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I wish there was a way that I 
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documents in audio form on the 
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It's not there. 
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helping fill the gap and helping
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providing audio resources. 
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podcasts which both focus on 
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documents. 
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of them and the difference 
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So the first podcast is going to
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Magisterium. 
That's going to be a free 

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podcast available for everyone 
on all of the podcast platforms,

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similar to daily gospel 
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So in the Voice of the 
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to read out the text of various 
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It's going to be an assortment 
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from the De Castre for the 
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Canon law documents. 
And these will be fairly regular

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podcasts, but not every day like
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So we're going to read the text 
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Some of the documents are long, 
some of them are short. 

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And to get you as listeners 
involved, if you're listening on

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Spotify, you'll have the option 
to vote on which document you 

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would like to hear next. 
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particularly suited to those who
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listen to church documents while
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travelling in some way. 
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sit down and read a church 
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And most of us don't, but you 
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listen to one. 
That's what this podcast is 

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going to be designed for. 
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on documents after the time of 
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them that we can look at. 
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build up a catalogue of audio 
recordings of various key church

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documents on The Voice of the 
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You can listen to that for free 
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The second podcast we're going 
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Magisterium Update. 
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podcast for those who are 
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ministry. 
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going to read out the text of 
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documents. 
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Pope and the de Castries release
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you'll often see media coverage 
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Whenever a magisterial document 
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to read the text out and it's 
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after it's published. 
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this announcement in February 
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just released audio versions of 
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for the Doctrine of the Faith 
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months called the Queen of 
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most official declaration on the
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Magicori. 
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the Synod on Synodality, which 
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you're a Catholic, you've 
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talked about, but you may never 
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these documents. 
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available to you right now 
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podcast. 
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for the Doctrine of the Faith a 
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of this recording at the end of 
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about artificial intelligence. 
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teaching about artificial 
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It's a long document. 
So again, not many people will 

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have the time to sit down and 
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But if you want to hear an audio
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is the next one that I'm 
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and that will be available to 
you very soon on the Magisterium

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Update podcast as well. 
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kind of thing that I wish was 
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because I often see a lot of 
commentary on documents as 

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they're released, but there's 
nothing out there which just 

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reads the document to you. 
So this podcast will give you 

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the text of the document, so 
then you're more prepared to 

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understand some of the debate 
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happening after the document is 
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So this is going to be available
to those who are Patreon 

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supporters of the ministry at 
the superfan level, that is 

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$30.00 per month or more. 
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that level, you also get access 
to all of the other bonus audio 

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resources that we're already 
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So you'll get access to all of 
the bonus Gospel exegesis 

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episodes, you'll get access to 
all of the Catechism class 

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recordings, and you'll also get 
access to this new The 

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Magisterium Update podcast if 
you're willing to support the 

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ministry at that level. 
There's currently a 70% discount

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available for your first month 
as a Patreon supporter at the 

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time of releasing this 
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So if you're interested, you 
might like to sign up for the 

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first month at the heavily 
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it interests you. 
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committed to sticking with 
Patreon if it doesn't interest 

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you after the first month. 
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Voice of the Magisterium. 
You can look for that on any 

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podcast platform, and the 
Magisterium Update, which is 

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available through the Patreon 
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You can find a link for that in 
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Both of those podcasts are just 
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commentary on the documents. 
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is to just read out the text of 
the documents so you can hear 

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the text yourself and so you can
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So hopefully that's the kind of 
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As I said, the ministry is going
to keep doing everything that it

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has been doing. 
These daily Gospel exegesis 

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episodes are going to keep being
released, but there's now 

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another resource available to 
you if you've ever wanted to go 

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a bit deeper in the Catholic 
faith and learn what the text 

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actually is of these key church 
documents that you've probably 

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heard a lot about. 
Thanks so much for your ongoing 

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support of the ministry. 
Check out the links in the show 

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notes to get some more 
information about these new 

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podcasts.