Episode Transcript
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Hi guys, welcome back.
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This is week three of our little Advent series.
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I'm Gabriel,
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I'm Dylan.
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And it's a pleasure to see you all again.
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You are joining us for another activity.
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What do we have Dylan?
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Today we're going to be writing cards to some of our family members
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and talking about some saints.
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So, happy third week of Advent.
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We're fifth year seminarians.
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So, let's see how good we are at putting these cards together,
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it's the first time we've ever done this, is that right, Gabriel?
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Yeah, it is.
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Let's go.
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Let's go!
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Although it's my first time making a card,
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I have written a lot of Christmas cards.
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You write Christmas cards, do you?
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I do.
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It used to be a family thing, that I would write the cards.
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As you can tell, my handwriting is not
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at the point where I should ever be writing cards.
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You get a very basic card from me with
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Merry Christmas and my name at the bottom of it.
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I don't believe in just
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giving a card for the sake of one
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and then the person having to chuck it out.
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So, if I give you a card,
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I expect you to keep it.
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So, we're both have never done this before, so we're both sort of figuring it out.
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So, I've gone with the three wise men.
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Oh, very good.
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Hey, whoa, where did you find the other two wise men before?
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I thought it was Mary and Joseph.
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Oh, no, that's that one.
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Never mind, false alarm.
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I've gone three wise men, and you've gone with the Holy Family.
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I've gone, yeah, they're in the stable.
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I love how it's,
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if you can see that, it like it pops out a little.
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That's very cool.
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I like that.
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That's very cool, people are very clever with the cards.
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Very clever.
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We're writing Christmas cards to people in our family right now.
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But Gabriel, if you could write
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say three Christmas cards
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to three different saints,
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who do you think you'd write to?
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So it would be to Eulalia of Mérida.
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Who is a saint that I've
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sort of journeyed with for quite a while,
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Mérida as in being from Spain
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and she was thirteen I believe at the time
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and martyred for the faith and really brutally.
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And I just was captivated by that as a kid
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by her story, by her witness.
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So I think she deserves a Christmas card.
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Another one I think would be pretty cool to write to would be
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maybe one of the wise men
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because growing up I used to love the carol We Three Kings.
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I absolutely, oh man, whenever that played,
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I was jamming out.
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That is a good Christmas carol.
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It's an absolute banger.
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So I would have to write to one of the wise men.
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Who would I put it down to?
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Feel like Casper has the cool name.
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Yeah, he always comes first, doesn't he?
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He does come first.
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And it reminds me of Casper the friendly ghost.
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So I'd write one to Casper.
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Are the three that you have in mind?
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I would write one of Saint Boniface.
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Saint Boniface cut down a pagan
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tree that they were worshiping, which is why we have Christmas trees.
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So, that's sort of a tradition.
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I'd write to him and be like,
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"Hey, man,
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thanks for doing that, it's all turned out really well.
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We have got Christmas trees now."
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So, I reckon he would appreciate,
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you know, knowing that what he did resonated so much.
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Who else you got?
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There's so many quite good ones but
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someone like Thomas Beckett, whose feast is just after Christmas.
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Okay. Okay.
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He's sort of like the kid whose birthday is near Christmas
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and he never gets any presents
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because you know,
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mum always gives him all the presents on Christmas day for both.
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So poor Thomas Beckett nobody,
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you know or Saint Stephen or someone like
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their feast gets overshadowed by Christmas.
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So I'd be like, "don't worry we haven't forgotten you.
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They made quite a good movie about you back in the sixties, so".
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That's his consolation?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Saint Stephen because
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pretty much immediately following Christmas we celebrate this feast day
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of this protomartyr,
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like this guy who has given up everything, his whole life,
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for this message that begins on this Christmas day.
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Which we celebrate
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and because, you know, for our Archdiocese
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I'd like to give him that acknowledgement I'll say,
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"you know what buddy,
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thank you for your intercession for this Archdiocese.
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We're still doing well,
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keep praying for us, keep us on track.
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Bless our new Archbishop."
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I think Saint Stephen deserves one.
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While you're about to say your third.
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I may have accidentally done it upside down.
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So, your third, sorry.
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Saint Robert Bellarmine,
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who I've been annoying you with,
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I've annoyed Gabriel with.
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This guy and Robert Bellarmine, oh man.
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For six years, I have been mentioning Robert Bellarmine and annoying
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everyone I ever lived with.
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Theologian from the sixteenth century.
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And I'd write him a Christmas card because I've enjoyed his writing,
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but also because I've met him.
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We met him in Rome at his tomb there.
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He had a big influence in
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my journey back to Catholicism
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when I was away for a little bit.
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Right, right.
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So I would definitely write a little letter, a little Christmas card to him.
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That's sweet, you can, you know, sort of give him that thanks.
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Despite the centuries difference,
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his influence is still there, especially in your life.
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That's pretty epic.
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Yeah.
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You know, there's something about the
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saints we've chosen,
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we've talked a bit these past few weeks about family.
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Christmas is time for gathering as a family.
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Advent is preparing us
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for the celebration, bringing everyone together.
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The saints are our extended family.
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They are, yep. Yeah.
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Well, this is my finished product.
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This is my Christmas card,
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my double sided Christmas card.
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On the one side, we have the beautiful nativity scene.
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You can see beautiful glittery Jesus there,
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my favorite part of the card.
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And then on the back, Dylan, I have,
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the three themselves.
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The three of them.
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The three themselves journeying,
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which is what this season is all about.
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Very good, I picked up on the journeying theme.
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So, I've got my Christmas card here
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of the three wise men going towards Jesus,
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just like we are in Advent.
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And I think it's a good reminder,
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especially since we're going to give these to the people before
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Christmas Day, that we're still moving towards it.
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And we really thank you to the ladies who
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helped us with this, we had a craft group help cut out the stuff.
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It was really, really nice to do these.
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So, I think my grandparents are going to have
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a nice little surprise this Christmas.
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Oh, beautiful.
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They're going to get a nice little handmade card.
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Nice, nice.
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And yep, this will go to my one of my Aunty's in India.
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So, why don't you at home
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do some advent cards this advent?
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Get them out there, it's always nice to get a little Christmas card in the mail.
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Absolutely.
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Most of the things we get in the mail are bills
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or things we bought ourselves.
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So, it's really nice to get, you know,
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something nice from family,
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you know, and you can put them around your house as little decorations.
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We hope you've enjoyed that,
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we'll see you next time for the fourth week of Advent.
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Thanks guys, God bless.
