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your workbench office kitchen these are Alders where you are for love and I am with you there go now take up your cross and with your life complete your way the name of the hey man Jesus when you come into your kingdom welcome everyone Welcome to our second Friday of this Lenten series I'm so impressed with all of you being here I think you all should get purple blessings tonight for coming through a severe thunderstorm warning to get here and then a tornado watch until 7 which hopefully that's gone and passed and gale-force winds I think you are a effort to get here so I can check on you three times but braces anyway I'm thrilled to be able to introduce mother Kevin spell he is a missionary of the precious blood father many of you may know him from his work over at Nick Nick Wright he's a chaplain at Nick Nick and also a theology teacher had Nick Nick, he's going to be presenting on one of his favorite Saints which is safe Gaspar so this time I'm thrilled to be able to introduce father Kevin thank you so much I think I got this all up and running now well thank you for being here tonight everyone and I am honored by your presence this certainly a blustery night before I came here I was at the Anderson Center mcnick this evening as the second night of Xanadu which is our spring play and I went bless the cast as I'm walking up one of our students is standing by the door there at the Anderson Center and I just said Hi how are you and she started shrieking and yelling do I know I have that effect on people sometimes but this seems particularly out of the ordinary so she's running off and I said what's wrong what's wrong and she the wind has my weave because her hair she was in the cast juicy and so that the wind blew the weed out of her hair and it was blowing and blowing all the way down the driveway so so that was unbelievable I suppose got there you have it so it really is just a great Delight to be with all of you here tonight I just a little bit of a background my name is Father Kevin scalf I'm originally from Cincinnati and I've spent about the past 20 years or so colleges in Northwest Indiana in the Chicagoland area to I've been part of the faculty and administration of them and I've also talked High School in Dunnellon High School boards and chaplains in the light so a couple years ago at the process of discern Play the song The God was calling me back to my hometown is Cincinnati in large part to be closer to my parents I'm an only child my mom's an only child everything was fine but I thought it's probably good to come home when things are good rather than when things are bad and so I wanted to get out of higher read for a while and go back full-time in the secondary add and I've been at Nick Nick now I'm in my my second year and it's just really great and it's a it's a real blessing in fact I might have some of your kids or grandkids or great-grandkids kids there at Rocket Nation so I come with greetings to you from my religious community the missionaries of the precious blood and I also come to you this evening with greetings and blessings from mcnicholas high school it is and I'll say a little more about our religious order to benefit in Cincinnati we were the precious blood at st. marks in Evanston for a while holy name and Clifton and then we have a whole variety of parishes in Dayton three in the downtown three in the know while standing up in the northern part of the Archdiocese in the rural area we used to have all those parishes at one time but we're a worldwide Ministry we have Ministry sites on every continent and I'll say more of a little more about that in just a moment but I'm just really glad that you're here today that out there are four letters after my name there are four letters after the name of every precious blood priest and brother now if you were Google CPS I would hope what is an Ideal World the missionaries of the precious blood would be the first hit in the Google search of CPS but it's not the first hit I know unless this is changed in the past couple weeks the first hit is chronic pelvic pain syndrome and I hope not to be that to you this evening but the CPS is the Latin for Congregation of the most and then the pp fortissimo saying a Congregation of the most precious blood that's the formal letters Congregation of the most precious blood in the Latin cpps that identifies all of our members by are polynomials store task my task tonight that when it's charged me by a by Donna the great. A wind strip is to talk for maybe 20 or 30 minutes on this topic I've saved Gasper and then to maybe pause for a little while and then as answer any questions or comments are you have and so the talk will be divided into two brief essay brief will see where the spirit goes hopefully it's not too too brief like 2 hours later we're here but two parts of this the first one a little bit of the history of save gas for the history the biography of say Casper in miniature and then the second part of the talk will be about a little bit about the the spirituality of the precious blood we often hear about the spirituality of the body of Christ Eucharistic body which is great and wonderful but we don't often hear as much about the spirituality of the precious blood so that'll be the end part so about 20 to 30 minutes half on the biography of Saint Gasper and then about half on the spirituality of the precious blood that's how I see things going today and it is always in people in these groups are always so polite you know and if you if you need to step away for whatever reason you can step away tend to your biology do what you need to do I won't think you're walking out on me and I won't be paranoid okay so this topic is immensely important to me not just because it comes from the depths of my own religious family but in the Catholic church in in the United States we are probably will know when you're one of a 3-year Eucharistic Revival the Eucharistic Revival it began last June 17th on the Feast of the solemnity of Corpus Christi or the body the price and the Eucharistic Revival was an idea of the United States Bishops conference to reinvigorate an understanding of the Eucharist appreciation of the Eucharist devotion of the Eucharist and also ultimately to call Nevada very important ongoing relationship with Jesus Christ through the Eucharist and so we're in in coming to the end kind of a one and then obviously you're too and you're three and during this time all kinds of Catholic answers missions are finding ways to evangelize and Faith formation and all of those things around Eucharist even more than ever and this all culminates then June 17th rue21 2024 in Indiana that's what a great celebration at Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown Indianapolis that's the great Christian do event of the Eucharistic Revival and it's just here in the United States so I think it's great that 50/50 lentini's Fridays are occurring here and that I get to share with you some Pearls of the great treasury of the Catholic tradition especially for the saint and a Congregation of men and women very dear to my heart very centered and you because we are a Eucharistic Community the missionaries of the precious blood so with no further Ado will will begin so just a little a little history rap biography of Gasper lived in the 19th century Italy early 1800s Italy I grew up a very faithful young Catholic boy and if you know anything little bit about the history in the early eighteen hundreds in Napoleon and there was a tremendous amount of dehumanization and bloodshed and violence and vitriol and broken politics we can't really do any of this today I know but that was the world in which a little gas for grew up and it seemed from a very early age according to the reports he really wanted to be part of the solution response to this and not part of the problem and is he grew up in it's going to mass we would call today just sir and that God was calling him to really really be part of the response to all of this Brokenness dehumanization and and the feeling of the blood all around him and he began to discern that really a god was calling him to be a priest and just Serve the People of of Italy in particular in in very special way is that what advanced healing and Reconciliation it's so he was also some fries for his local diocese there in Umbria Italy Umbria and he was ordained for that particular diocese to a Diocesan priest but he was charged with preaching Parish missions and he was charged with renewal of the church there in the nineteenth century and he was such an inspirational speaker and spoke to people's hearts at revivals and Retreats in Muhammad Ali's in the list goes on that other men wanted to follow his message to follow this commitment that he had to reconciliation and renewal of the church it's so what happened it's been a lot of history here but the short form is these group of Diocesan priests formed actually a religious congregation and a religious order and this is the the symbol that they used what is with the symbol that they wanted something that typified record Malaysia do jewel in the crown of reconciliation would be the sacrament but he also saw a Reconciliation much more broadly in terms of how do we find Healing Liberation race in will in Christ wear these Extremes in life are brought together a price at the center the reconciliation for him was was indeed Sacramento but it was also very holistic at the same time he wanted a symbol for the congregation it needed a name and needed a symbol it obviously needed all that goes with that and so at that time in church history it it's the same way today but not not as much but the great symbolic punctuation mark reconciliation in 19th century Europe would have been the precious blood of Jesus there was this inimitable connection between the precious blood and Reconciliation the precious blood of Jesus poured out of the cross at for daily on the Altar for the forgiveness and healing and liberation of God's people and so these these men who were joining him in this mission of reconciliation we're known as missionaries and I think it's important within the Catholic tradition we understand missionaries much more broadly than women and man who go for example to emerging countries and do work that's certainly missionary work but in a more water a much broader sense a missionary is anyone who's committed to him no I taught at a graduate seminary in Africa and I am a missionary priest but most of my Ministry has occurred here in the United States but these anyway these men who were gathering around Gasper Kate at the reconciliation and renewal and the healing and liberation of green Grace of of the faithful became these missionaries of the precious blood mission of reconciliation and so there's a lot of interesting history around all this especially in relation to Nero Nero wanted Gasper to take an oath of fidelity and he said I will not I must not I am not and then he faced imprisonment for for quite some time and he was a bench extricated from jail and then went back to the ministry that was entrusted to him so I got there's a tremendous amount of detail with all of this but through it all Gasper's love personal love for Jesus the Eucharistic Christ was the great animator for all that he did and in his in his writing we don't have a magnum opus of gas for like you might have the spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius or the Great rule of Saint Benedict Gasper didn't really write a Tome like these some of these other things but we have our circular letters that he would send out that are that are packed with all kinds of great spirituality and Wednesday turn the light from those letters we've been able to determine a lot of things about him in one of those things about him is that his his entire life with a Eucharistic life the body of Christ the blood of Christ gave him all of the Zeal and the courage that he had to sometimes preach missions and Retreats for sometimes going to 18 hours a day on a Asian with very little rest and people would comment on his Zeal and even as tired as he was you never would have known it and so you you look then at what happened to the congregation since like 1815 would it be hey Ma fully recognized Vatican religious community and it has spread to every continents and all of it at the core is reconciliation one instance of that in the state is in Chicago we have a formation house there are two alligators there we have some a variety of Industries and one of them is a gang Ministry but really it does restorative justice for gang offenders in the Chicagoland area we're coming out of prison and this is an option that they have to re-enter Society is to go through this restorative process where it brings together victim in a fender until victim in a fender or victim's family and offender begin a process all of all of our parking and honesty and process in the gospels at the heart of it it's very very powerful and so you see the work of reconciliation playing out there I see it in my own life whether it's straight of Lee at Nick Nick where I am a part of the administration and faculty in the classroom wherever there's there's always opportunities for healing and Reconciliation and that might be an entirely different talk did the nuts and bolts the psychology and spirituality of reconciliation through a Catholic purview that might be something for the springtime or this summer you get extra credit for that little bit about the history of St Casper and this tiny little Italian guy did tremendous work because his heart was on fire for Jesus Christ in the Eucharist especially in the precious blood Christ so what I'd like to do now is just that that's part one and did a little bit of his regulars much oceans of being could be spilled and trying to articulate the history of Saint Gasper but I also know our time is a little limited and it's Friday and you probably had a long week so now I'd like to go into the second part of the talk which is kind of a spirituality of the precious blood as I mentioned just just seconds ago we we often hear about a spirituality of the spirituality of the body of Christ the Eucharistic quality great wonderful but I think that that breathe together with both lungs of the body of Christ when we put that in conversation in a very intentional way with the blood of Christ the body of Christ blood Eucharistic Christ so the second part of the top down on the spirituality of the Eucharist and I'd like to begin with this little anecdote a man had a few too many drinks one Sunday and stumbled across baptism service down by the Ohio river and he proceeded to stumble down into the water and he stood next to the local Protestant Minister and the minister turned and noticed the man and said Mr you're ready to find Jesus with a man look back Ben said yes I am so the minister dumped them under the water and pulled them back up and said if you found Jesus oh I didn't set them and tell the minister Commander again brought him up and said now brother this time have you found Jesus no I did not set the man well disgusted the minister repeated the dunking brought him up and demanded for the love of God and all that totally have you found Jesus this time well the man wiped his eyes and said no sir I have not but are you sure this is where he fell in now we find Jesus in many places how's that for a transition find Jesus in many places some obvious and others not so obvious again one of the more obvious places we find Jesus for Catholics is in the Eucharist in the precious blood and precious body of Jesus Christ call the spirituality of the body of Christ but what about the spirituality of the blood of Christ the spirituality of the blood well it's interesting the word blood drives from the old English word bladh here you might think of Gore from a wound blood or blog seriously derives from the Latin sanguineous and the Greek word hamartia which refers to something inherited through a genetic relationship and that's very important something inherited through a genetic relationship heart of the word blood and so blood inherited is a blessing human life is a blessing and we see this connection throughout the Bible we see it in the book of Exodus and there's this inexorable between blood and life and blessing blood and life and blessing our culture does tend to perceive blood a little differently in Moment Blood has great entertainment value these days blood cells a lot of Hollywood it seems to have really lost its religious significance but blood certainly cells and if we look at the but it really does have a curious Kaleidoscope of meaning blood gives life to our body blood goes where it's needed and one way that youman blood is most like giving is through a blood transfusion and similarly one way the Eucharist is most Life Giving is there a blood transfusion we receive at every Mass I told the Eucharist is really that blood transfusion where Christ becomes heard of us we might think of it as a donation of Jesus to help save our lives Jesus the original Red Cross until when we consume the precious blood of Jesus we're consuming much more than a symbol is the actual blood of Christ just as the Eucharist is body blood soul in Divinity there's nothing half a creamer it's not half and half it's entirely Jesus Christ there's nothing so I like about the blood why well a symbol would allow the transfusion to take place I mean a symbolic blood transfusion who does that it has to be more than a symbol and it is more than a Sim and that's why the precious blood is taken within us his blood coursing through out our bodies with our bodies his body digested giving us sustain life indeed we are transfused each we need to be transfused each week and transform into the love of Christ I love that transforms hatred for example because hatred in one's blood is ultimately the cause of heart failure metaphorically of course it's so we have this Rich symbol that reflects this by the way is my ordination chalice and I know if you know this when a guy is being ordained typically his parents will gift him with a chalice but since since my congregation is a is a Eucharistic Community we have a very nice chalices that have been gifted to our members in our members use them in when the members died they go back into our Treasury and then new man who ordained to the priesthood are invite into this treasury this Vault to look at the chalices to Panama be pray with the chalices and they did take one of the chalices and use this throughout their priesthood when they can and then when he dies then the tradition continues and there's so by the way not just a childless but but a mission cross that's also passed down from member-to-member I have a mission cross where I live at the Cathedral Basilica of st. Peter in Chains and it's on my wall there and every day I see it when I coming in and out of that room it reminds me that I have a mission a mission to be a missionary of the precious blood as a son of Gasper and this childless also reminds me of that very important call importantly I think for all of us this is an opportunity to cultivate maybe a new aspect of our Eucharistic spirituality our liturgical spirituality and I would suggest this to you one way that the dis part of the mass the Eucharistic there are any particular the elevation of the Chalice during the Eucharistic prayer might be more meaningful for you more Life Giving for you for this part of the mass might be more fully conscious inactive for you is to really zero in focus on this like a laser and that when the priest is saying the prayers over the console over the wine if they become the precious blood I would urge you in before that order not to think about in your life in that moment a special prayer intention somebody in your life of your family something in the world something for you maybe and then imagine that that whatever is that intention is at that very mass is being held in this chalice and imagine it in the Chalice see it in the Charlotte feel it in the Chalice and if the priest is praying over the wine and it's becoming the precious blood there's a significant transformation happening in this chalice that there's also a significant transformation happening in your prayer and then it's the priest elevates the Chalice in that moment of sacred silence where we all have a different kind of communion this is visual communion that your prayer and the prayer of anybody else who's doing this joins the great prayer of the priest in the church offering that up to God and knowing that that prayer has been changed and that is a sacred moment of great transformation in Christ for all of us even more specifically and specially for you in that very powerful moment of God's love the precious blood poured out on the cross offer daily on the Altar for God's people in all of creation and maybe there's somebody in your life you're having trouble with somebody was annoying you in and causing you great anxiety it's a win this challenge has raised you might imagine them in this cop just don't drown you can also even outside of mass use this is a helpful in for your own personal prayer you might think about from a few different perspectives that that you keep putting in your prayers in here and and imagining that that Jesus himself is lifting them up to the father or maybe imagine that your you are in the Chalice of Christ heart and being held and nurtured and loved and being healed and ways that God is healing you even though it might not seem that there's here the moment God is always healing us and we need to be touched and held and some has been reminded of that and this beautiful image of the the sacred chalice helps us to do that so this is something one way that you can grow into a kind of precious fluid spirituality and Mass to use some of these these powerful provocative images in your own prayer life and I just gave a talk at the Cathedral last week on you do it well if you topic but one of them was that that question Jesus have can you drink the cop you can you drink the cup of God's love for you a God who wants more for you than in Austin we could ever imagine in a God who is constantly giving God's help to us in ways we can ever imagine he's closer to us and our breath is to ourselves can we really drink from that cop that couple blessing that's the whole talk next fall so we can send you them as we look at that car if we really do see a cup on fire there's Red Gold in that cup and it's meant to circulate because that's what blood does it circulates it goes where it's needed it's passed around and that's exactly what sing Casper did he was deeply devoted to the precious blood of Jesus in fact he often refer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus imagine that Sacred Heart image in your mind tonight the Sacred Heart of Jesus well he referred to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as The Wine Cellar of the precious blood The Wine Cellar the precious blood isn't that beautiful folks beautiful and as old blood it's meant to circulate and that's why as a people a Eucharistic people I meant to do the same thing we're meant not just to be stagnant to be too comfortable where it's comfortable but we're meant to circulate we're meant to go where we're needed to become the body and blood of Christ for others that's why Eucharistic spirituality comes alive that's where the theological rubber hits the religious Road when we put this into practice otherwise it's just nice but Jesus Christ is calling it to something more than just being as nice as that might be and so from Jesus we're entitled to transfuse the world through our words and actions to hold the mercy of Christ in the Chalice of our hearts and maybe that's why I only in the Catholic Church only in the Catholic Church is high blood pressure a good thing being Catholic is all about it's a Catholic thing it's in our blood and light blood Were Meant to circulate for the greater glory of God and that fundamentally that is the essential identity we have inherited inherited from God as the body of Christ it's all will take about two minutes and reflect how is just asking you to be transfused and trans for into the hope and joy of Christ this lant I'm happy to say you're all very good students you're very task-oriented you're playing on your phones we're talking to your neighbor nobody has to leave to go to the bathroom so thank you for that very good I hope it wasn't like drinking from a firehose either hit a lot coming out there's a lot of good stuff too so I just want to pause and and ask him if there's any questions comments insights observations there's no the wrong responses I chances are whatever you're offering is probably being wondered by by somebody sitting next to you so any any comments questions yes please call Jacob Frank yes so there were a number of intercessions through his intervention and it it typical had to do with kids who were very very sick and their parents prayed to him and there was miraculous healings which is kind of curious because when he was growing up he have a lot of vision issues and his mom prayed to Saint Francis Xavier and on three occasions there was this miraculous restoration of his eyesight until for a while he was actually going to be a Jesuit he wanted to be a Jesuit but I think they were under suppression or something the time he couldn't yeah good thank you yes please yeah well it depends on the class actually because there's a lot different there's a lot of transferability here but for example one of the classes I teach I started it's a dual credit class for seniors to get senior theology credit and they get college credit credit transfers any college or university is in biblical let one into the Old Testament New Testament so when we get to the instances of blood there that becomes a natural point for departure to look at the biblical the historical is the medical and the spiritual dimensions of blood that kind of becomes a natural entry point in the Liturgy sacrum is class but I teach when we get to Eucharist that becomes you know a natural point for discussion and then you know if if if you do Muhammad Ali's or whatever I'm doing I trying to be rethought full and attentive to the highlighting that yeah so good thank you yes turn Bread and Wine Into well that's not part of the ritual first yeah some priests to that. not part of the right absolutely not no no it's it's powerful because it's humbling you know humility is powerful and at our ordination part of the ordination right that they asked our for Mater's and I've been ordained 14 years now it was do you have you found this man Worthy and someone says yes we have but really we're not totally unworthy to do this you know God does not call the qualified God qualifies the called and so it is profoundly humbling to be able to do that and to celebrate all the sacraments matter especially the sacrament of reconciliation during Lent knowing as well that you know I am a sinner and in need of God's mercy just like everybody else and to be you know to be it's either we're all somebody said recently were all in the same boat for all seasick that's true but thank goodness Jesus has got us Jesus Is God is going to bring us out of it yeah anyone else yes please yeah that's a really good question if there's there's it's a French I didn't control his French Gothic goes back to the 1800 but I don't know who had it that's the thing with over those records were lost but it goes back to the late 1800s and I don't know if you've noticed there's a lot I didn't when I became a free information you learned so much I didn't know that if if you have a chalice now this looks pretty good shape but it was not in good shape when I saw it and you can send these off to have them refurbished did you know that you send them off and they look call and they come back beautiful so bright and go to Blind your eyes it's just great so I sent it off and headed I had it I had an upgraded down makeover yeah so this is charlows 2.0 yes deacon call Matt Hoover not that I I can understand some of this when it occurred during covid a little bit I could understand but we've moved far beyond that some parishes have said we're not going back to it but I don't understand why and if people if the faithful don't want to receive they don't have but why deny them that possibility and I know that there are some reasons why people don't receive maybe there's an alcohol issue or whatever and you know that doesn't mean you still can't cultivate oppressor spirituality in your heart you know even if you don't receive the Chalice the blood for whatever reason you know they're still ways you can grow in your E46 spirituality that way to yes. just a little hot Terry a little a little symbol was it yeah that's to the jog oh yeah. yeah that's a really good question I don't know all the liturgical history with that but it was reserved just for the priest the priest would be the one who would just receive and I believe it Vatican 2 I think the Vatican to like so many things that it was offered to the the faithful and you know so many of those other changes but especially beautiful seeing the priest and the host you're the reason for the bells were to wake the people up because they didn't know the Latin and they couldn't see what was going on it so they're praying the rosary and it's like okay this is the Acme point of the mass and the bells would ring the history of the Bells you know we're in a much different place historically then we are we were we are we were then yeah sacred species of body and blood in to receive the body and blood together the church is language is it's the fullness of the sacrament fullness you know do you know if you just received that the consecrated host the body and not the blood you know it's not you're not deficient there's a fullness that occurs when both are received in a proper state yes please oh yeah real deal again and again reconciliation probably are yeah but you're right that you know baptism is the the the great entry Sacrament that allows the grace of all the other sacraments to follow in. the confirmation Eucharist of course are the sacraments of initiation and Eucharist is the repeatable sacrament of initiation of the we don't think of it that way but it's the repeatable sacrament of initiation you don't repeat that. And you don't repeat confirmation but you do repeat Eucharist and I'll give it to talk to yours ago on the import of that that is a significant moment when we realize that we're being reinitiated into the body of Christ in the Paschal mystery Time and Time and Time Again a lot to unpack there yeah yeah that's right God's madly in love that's right you're welcome thank you for the questions yes please plushie yeah oh no that's fine missionaries of the precious blood the formal name is society that precious blood and and we we do live in community I have always lived in community but when I move back to Cincinnati from Chicago to be closer to my parents who really don't have anyone in Stinson maybe a lot of people in Dayton and my provincial said well you know you if you can live on your own if you want I'm like I don't want to do that I've always used to living in community and I want to live with other priests so unfortunately I do everyday is Lent no I know Jim I've no different long time and you know I just it's kind of interesting because I I know if he's aware of it but anytime he talks about ihmm anytime he is something connected with your he really does light off and he he just loves this place he loves all of you if you've known Father James Schmidt the pastor here for a very long time and he's now a director at the Cathedral where I live and he's just has so much love for for this place and the people and people in your lives were no longer here and the like soap I just just always touches me when anything i h m comes up because he is he's just still madly in love with you home yeah I'm putting that might not be his words yeah yeah please yeah well I'm in my second year there and I think there's a lot of good things happening you know we've started I started Eucharistic adoration about a year ago with our football team and they they they brought a lot of friends with them on that so we're doing that a full day before she got a relation one day a month we and we're hoping to grow that and I'm hoping that in our Retreat program we also have a rosary 3 days a week before school starts we have an old-school Mass once a month we got every Friday morning mass at 7 you're all welcome to join us we have multiple days of Retreats for all the grade levels and we follow the Bishops curriculum for theology so you know it's it's always wherever we are we're always growing in our faith formation and I can say that going into next year we have or we're going to have close to it's not over 200 new 9th graders we haven't seen these kind of numbers in about 40 years so you know that's definitely good news certainly there's been a good boss so it will keep praying for us and an O of us praying for you to yeah but yeah it's good okay we'll listen I just want to thank all of you for making time in your very days at the end of a busy week to be here and for taking you know your face seriously and wanting to grow so deeply know of my prayers for you I am honored by your presence and I'd like to just give you a little blessing this week include the name of the the Son and the Holy Spirit amen thank you for the gift of your son Jesus who gives him to ourselves and word and Sacrament we thank you for the gift of this Parish family and all of the wonderful people who make up the Archdiocese in Fort killer in the church in general lavish your blessings upon all of these amazing women and men strengthen them in mind body and spirit and transfigure them on this Sunday of the Transfiguration into your love peace and joy with all of this through Christ Our Lord amen and they all Mighty God bless you all the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit amen God bless you and all of my prayers and support for all of you thanks everybody thank you so much for the Kevin I know I won't look at the Chalice quite the same way I've got something new to just focus on during mass now you're old welcome to come back next Friday or our third session hopefully next week will be a little bit more hospitable will be able to open the doors may be at today we tried to open them but they the wind just blew them up so we just had to block them again and I guess March is coming in like a lion this year so hopefully next week things will be better be able to open the doors again for you and I hope you have the electricity when you get home or couple people told me they think don't if you don't have electricity recently well stay here in the warm and for a while all right well God bless you all have a safe Journeys home thank you for coming

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