{"id":1012,"date":"2016-11-18T10:58:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T15:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/?page_id=1012"},"modified":"2022-02-24T08:39:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T13:39:22","slug":"destined-love-advent-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/destined-love-advent-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Destined for Love &#8211; Advent 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"youtube-responsive-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tZOd0LSk-j8?rel=0&amp;modestbranding=1\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Father Anthony talks about loving Jesus. He talks about Zacchaeus and how he proclaimed his love for Jesus. Father also encourages us to seek and devote our days into loving and truly being devoted to God in our everyday lives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for watching and participating in this retreat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Not Registered, yet? Don\u2019t miss the rest of the talks! Register for the Pray More Retreat!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/2016-lent-retreat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Click Here to Register!<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Downloads<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Audio MP3<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/14%20-%20Fr.%20Anthony%20Co%20-%20Destined%20for%20Love.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click&nbsp;here&nbsp;to download audio file.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Printable Study Guide PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Destined-for-Love-Study-Guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to download the printable study guide.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Printable Transcript PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Destined-for-Love-Transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to download the transcript of the video presentation.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Reflective Study Guide Questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cIf you believe in your heart that Jesus was raised from the dead, you shall be<br>saved. Confess with your lips and believe in your heart that Jesus was raised.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>When was the last time that you professed your love for the Lord, and shared that with others? If you haven\u2019t had a chance to do that in a while, try to find an opportunity to do that this Advent. Or give it a try right now. What would you say, how would you say it?<br><br><\/li><li>\u201cThe reason that you cannot see Jesus is because you are ashamed to climb the Sycamore tree.\u201d The reason we can\u2019t see Jesus more is because the Sycamore tree is public. It\u2019s not a private thing we can do in our own home, it\u2019s something we have to do in public. We have to profess our faith in public, not only in private. What are small ways you can do that?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Text: Destined for Love<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Good morning. What a beautiful weekend. I hope you all had a chance to go for a stroll. It\u2019s 74 degrees. The birds were chirping, *chirp* *chirp*, the wind was blowing, the sun was out, it was absolutely amazing. Now the Cubbies, awe&#8230; Come on now. Well, maybe we\u2019ll do better in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">To Have An Encounter With the Lord<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>But God\u2019s been good. It\u2019s been a great week, it\u2019s been a great couple of months, and I\u2019m very thankful. One thing that\u2019s on my mind is a Grace, has been going to Jordan Grade School for the grade school mass. So, the priest of our cluster, typically we scatter the masses that we do there throughout the year, but I asked the principal if I could have them all in one block. So I have all of October and all of November. And it\u2019s been great. After mass, I go to the grade school. I\u2019ve been kind of focusing on one class so I can get to know them third graders. Third graders are cool because they still like me, you know. And they\u2019re easy to be with, and they\u2019re interested. And so I learned how to color between the lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went to the second grade and I got to practice my nouns and adjectives and verbs, and I was with the kindergarteners, and I was practicing sitting criss-cross applesauce. So, I feel pretty good about myself, you know. I\u2019ve learned a lot of stuff these last couple of weeks. So they\u2019re great. And at the mass, what I try to do is to provide them something a little bit different, because I want them to go through their K-8 and leave that school with a deep love for the Lord. You know, I don\u2019t want them to have this experience of God as, you know, this great uncle who every 5 years sends a present in the mail. You never see him, you hear about him once in while. I don\u2019t want that experience for them. I want them to have a faith that\u2019s like mine or better than mine, you know. I wake up in the morning and I have a sense of the presence of God. I wake up in the morning and I hear God\u2019s voice speaking to me throughout the day. And when I kind of think about, like, the oldness of my own thoughts, or the oldness of my own heart at times, I get to see the Lord come in and start working on me throughout the day. It\u2019s amazing. You know, I\u2019m not by myself. The Lord is with me. And I want them to have this deep sense of an encounter with the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I Love Jesus!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>So in the homilies, I try all sorts of different things, and recently I was thinking about last semester. I had the kids reflect on this passage. It\u2019s from Romans. St. Paul says <em><strong>\u201cIf you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus was raised from the dead, you shall be saved.\u201d<\/strong><\/em> Confess with your lips and believe in your heart that Jesus was raised, you shall be saved. Well, I want to be saved. You want to be saved. And so I said to them \u201cYou know, you\u2019re here today because you believe in your heart that Jesus was raised from the dead and, in many ways, there\u2019s different ways to confess with your mouth, but it\u2019s something special when we publically, personally confess with our own lips that we love the Lord.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I said \u201cThis is what we\u2019re going to do\u201d, this is at mass at St. Pious. You can imagine 200 kids are out there, some old grandmas there for their grandkids, a few parents who don\u2019t work that day, teachers and such. And I said \u201cOkay, I\u2019m going to tell you that I love Jesus, and then I invite you to stand up and say that you love Jesus.\u201d And it was so beautiful. They just started popping up like popcorn. One little boy was like, he started off. \u201cI love Jesus!\u201d And then another little girl \u201cI love Jesus!\u201d And then some grandma, \u201cI love Jesus!\u201d And then some teacher. And before I knew it, the whole place was erupting with people professing their love for the Lord. It was beautiful. You know how sometimes kids, you ask them to do something which requires a little bit of involvement, and they do it in a sarcastic way, kind of making fun of it? They weren\u2019t doing that at all. Like, you could see in their eyes their excitement for the Lord, and it was beautiful. Professing with their lips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Zacchaeus<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>And I mention this because today\u2019s gospel passage has everything to do with that. We know the story of Zacchaeus or Zacchaeus. I was thinking about that song I learned in kindergarten. How does that song go? You\u2019re going to have to help me out with the last words of every verse. \u201cZacchaeus as a wee little man, a wee little man was&#8230;?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crowd:&nbsp;<\/strong>He<br><strong>Father Anthony Co:&nbsp;<\/strong>He climbed up a sycamore tree to see what he could&#8230;?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crowd:&nbsp;<\/strong>See<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Father Anthony Co:&nbsp;<\/strong>Oh, nice. You can practice it at home on YouTube if you want, but that\u2019s all I know for that song. Zacchaeus. Okay, so he\u2019s in Jericho. Jericho is, I think, my memory is it\u2019s like 45 minutes to an hour south of Jerusalem. You\u2019re going down a descent, out into the wilderness. Jericho, I believe, if my memory serves me, it\u2019s the oldest city in the <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/living-redeemed-people-broken-world-advent-2016\/\">world where there\u2019s still people living<\/a> continuously, and the Israelis to this day, they go down to Jericho during the winter months because it\u2019s warmer there. It\u2019s hot down there, and they want to enjoy some warm weather. So, Zacchaeus had some kind of change of heart. We don\u2019t really know what happened. And he wanted to see Jesus, and Jesus was passing through the town, and he was a wee little man, and he climbs up that sycamore tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, what\u2019s interesting about Zacchaeus is that he wasn\u2019t only a tax collector, which was a person who\u2019s pretty wealthy, pretty despised; he was a chief tax collector. He was super wealthy and super despised, because he was a thief. That was his job. He stole from his own people. And what was interesting is he climbed up that sycamore tree. Now, if you are a tree dresser, or an arborist, or you collect fruits from a tree, it makes sense for a grown man to climb up a tree. But a person of his position, too weird. You know, for him to do that, he would have to swallow his pride, he would have to be unashamed, and obviously he was excited to see Jesus. So he climbs up that tree, Jesus sees him, and He says \u201cZacchaeus, come down that tree, for today I must stay at your house.\u201d People began to grumble. You invite somebody over to your home, that\u2019s a sign of fellowship, of friendship, and didn\u2019t Jesus know this guy\u2019s a sinner? He\u2019s a jerk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then Zacchaeus did something amazing. Really important, really special. His does 3 basic things which leads to some special grace. He calls Jesus \u201cLord\u201d. I don\u2019t know if you picked that up. He says \u201cBehold half of my possessions Lord.\u201d Then he says \u201cI give half of my possessions to the poor.\u201d Jesus loves the poor, God loves the poor. Somehow, mysteriously, the forgiveness of our sins is tied into giving our alms to the poor. He calls him \u201cLord\u201d, gives to the poor, and then he says this: \u201cIf I have extorted anything, I\u2019ll pay it back.\u201d In the Old Testament, if you stole an ox and you got caught, I assume, then you would have to owe the person 4 oxen. 5 oxen. And then if you stole a sheep, you would have to pay them back with 4 sheep. And so he\u2019s following the Old Testament law and he wants to give back to the people, and obviously he stole from a lot of people. And can you imagine Like, okay, here\u2019s this key figure who\u2019s a thief, nobody can do anything about it, he\u2019s so powerful, and he\u2019s in this town which is big \u2013 it\u2019s not that big, but it\u2019s big \u2013 and now he\u2019s changed. Imagine how the change&#8230; how the town changed because of this man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then Jesus says this \u201cToday, salvation has come to this house.\u201d Zacchaeus received salvation, which is two-fold. One, he received the amazing grace of the forgiveness of his sins. He dies, boom. He\u2019s going to go to the heaven with our Lord. But the second part is this: He had Jesus come to his house, Jesus is salvation. I mean, only a handful of people had the Lord come to their house. Peter had Him come, some scribes, maybe Pharisees, but this guy also had the great privilege of having our Lord there. Zacchaeus was a man who obviously was searching for God, who made some detours, some pretty big ones. Anybody do that? He made some detours. But in the end, what he found out was that Jesus all along was searching after him. That\u2019s what makes it different for us as Christians. We don\u2019t seek after God, God seeks after us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Passage From St. Agustine<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>And what I really wanted to talk about today was something that St. Augustine said about this very passage. St. Augustine, the great church father. You know who he is. He says this: \u201cThe reason that you cannot see Jesus\u201d, so the you is you, so I\u2019m pointing at you, but it\u2019s also at me. \u201cThe reason that you cannot see Jesus\u201d, and I\u2019ll add my own words, \u201cand see more of him is because you are ashamed to climb the sycamore tree.\u201d The reason why we can\u2019t see Jesus more is because we\u2019re afraid to climb that sycamore tree. And the sycamore tree is public. It\u2019s not like in the privacy of your own home, you know, it\u2019s public. As I mentioned about those kids, the Holy Spirit allowed them to be there at mass. But the fact that they were able to stand up and vocalize that they loved the Lord, that opens us up to the ability to be even more courageous for Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, like, He cooperates with our decisions to be publically professing our faith. I\u2019m not saying that we have to be theologians. A person who is a theologian knows all sorts of stuff about history and revelation stuff. We don\u2019t have to be apologists. Apologists are people who know how to defend the Catholic faith, \u201cAnd this is why we believe in this and that and this.\u201d And that\u2019s good. But as Christians, every single one of us, no matter our skill, to live a life of love is to put our hearts out there, and to tell people that we love Him, we love the Lord, and in an innocent and a gentle way we love Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Because I Love Jesus<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>On my last trip back from Israel I was sitting next to these 2 pretty Israeli girls. And, you know, what\u2019s interesting is that they don\u2019t understand Christianity. You know, the place of Christ? for whatever reason, they didn\u2019t know anything about Jesus. And so I\u2019m kind of describing things, and explaining, and I\u2019m trying to get into the conversation that I love the Lord. And it kind of dawns on them that I\u2019m a priest, and so they\u2019re like \u201cWait a second, there\u2019s something weird about priests. We can\u2019t remember what it is. Oh yeah, something about marriage.\u201d \u201cOh yeah, I\u2019m a celibate.\u201d And that was just, like, so weird for them, because for Jewish people, there\u2019s not a place for celibacy, because if you\u2019re celibate you stop the chance for the messiah to come. They\u2019re waiting for the messiah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I was explaining to them \u201cI live this <a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/strange-ways-god-heals-sufferings-advent-2016\/\">way because God<\/a> called me, and because I love Jesus.\u201d It\u2019s really important for us to say that. And also, I think I was telling the kids that, like, you know, I have kind of a fluid sense of who is my uncle and aunt in my family. I have my biological ones, you know, on my mom\u2019s side and my dad\u2019s side, but then we have so many people come into our family that our uncles and aunts age. And so as a kid, I knew I could say \u201cI love you\u201d to my biological ones, but I wasn\u2019t quite sure if I could say \u201cI love you\u201d to the ones that were, like, neighbors, but they\u2019re not related to me. And I began to do it, and it got easier, and easier, and easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I tell you all of this because we need to challenge ourselves to climb up that tree if we want to see the Lord. Do you want to see Lord Jesus? Do you want to have a faith that is just on fire and the Lord\u2019s constantly speaking to you throughout the day? You sense His presence, He\u2019s renewing your mind and your heart, you\u2019re willing to do anything for Him? Well, we have to climb the tree. And, so this is when you think to yourself \u201cOh, that Father Anthony, I like his short masses, but now he\u2019s making us feel uncomfortable because you know what we\u2019re going to do next? We\u2019re going to do what those little kids did as they popped up like popcorn at St. Pious Catholic Church. But don\u2019t worry, here is a room of people who love Jesus, people who you\u2019ve sat next to. Maybe you don\u2019t know very well, but sat next to for 10 years? 20 years? 30 years? Maybe higher? 40 years? 50 years? 60 years? Okay. So we\u2019re in a safe environment, that\u2019s good. And the more we do it with the people who love us and who are with us, the easier it is to share with other people. Again, it\u2019s all up to you. If you don\u2019t want to see Jesus, well, that\u2019s your choice. But if you do want to see Jesus, you\u2019ve got to climb up that tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Loving Our Neighbors<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what\u2019s going to happen first is I\u2019m going to tell you, because it\u2019s only fair, that I love the Lord, and then if you want you\u2019re going to stand up in front of all of these strangers individually and say that you love the Lord. So here you go. Get ready for it. I\u2019m telling you. I want you to know that I love you. See, there\u2019s the twist. I do. I really love you. And I know I\u2019m new here, and I have to earn a place in your hearts, and that you have to see me and interact with me. But when I get done with mass on Sunday, and speed off to Sterling, Illinois where I hang out with priests, and we watch movies, play games, eat junk food, lift weights. There\u2019s like 5 of us who kind of congregate. I don\u2019t just, like, forget about you. My friend Father Bruce has a chapel, and I sit in there, and I pray my prayers, and I think about you guys, and about your lives, and how I can serve you better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I know some of you will warm up to me really quickly \u2013 there\u2019s like 5% of people who do that \u2013 and then there\u2019s a bell curve. And then some of you will warm up to me probably in the last 3 weeks before I leave for my next assignment \u2013 that\u2019s when you\u2019ll invite me over for dinner. That\u2019s okay. That\u2019s okay. I want you to know that. But I also love Jesus. Oh yeah, that\u2019s the point. I love the Lord. And I pray that even if He asked me to risk my life, I could stretch out my neck and \u201cHere, chop off my head. Go ahead\u201d Because I love the Lord, I want to follow Him wherever He wants me to go. Now, here\u2019s the question for you: Is there anyone out there who\u2019s willing to stand up and say that they love Jesus? Let\u2019s hear it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Crowd:&nbsp;<\/strong>I Love Jesus and I love you Father Anthony.<br><strong>Father Anthony Co:&nbsp;<\/strong>Oh, amen. Amen. Oh, thank you. Amen. Amen. Alright, how about in this section over here? Anybody?<br><strong>Crowd:&nbsp;<\/strong>I love Jesus.<br><strong>Father Anthony Co:&nbsp;<\/strong>Amen. You guys are awesome. Praise God. Look at this.&nbsp;<br><strong>Crowd:&nbsp;<\/strong>I love Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Father Anthony Co:&nbsp;<\/strong>Are we Baptists or what? Awesome. I know there\u2019s more of you who are going to stand up and \u201cGod is so good! God is so good!\u201d I think we just, in the ways that we can, we publically find a way, a sneaky way, gentle way, innocent way to tell people \u201cyou know, I love the Lord.\u201d And you know what? In the end, if they think we\u2019re weird, like, who cares? You\u2019ve got family and friends who love you. And maybe some of them are your family and friends that think you\u2019re weird. That\u2019s okay, Jesus loves you. We want to see the Lord, and we&#8217;re doing this because we want to see the Lord. Climbing up that sycamore tree. And what Jesus is going to say to you, \u201cYou climb up that tree today.\u201d Today. Salvation has come to this house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">About Fr. Anthony Co<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:27% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"382\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Tony-Headshot-1.jpg\" alt=\"tony-headshot\" class=\"wp-image-963 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Tony-Headshot-1.jpg 310w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Tony-Headshot-1-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/speaker-fr-anthony-co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Father Anthony Co<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/a>grew up in the western suburbs of Chicago. While completing his studies of philosophy and Eastern religions at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, Fr. Anthony received his calling to the priesthood. Immediately after graduating from U of I, Fr. Anthony entered Mt. St. Mary\u2019s Seminary and for the next five years he prepared for Holy Orders for the Diocese of Peoria, IL. He was ordained to the priesthood at St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception in 2005 and offered his Mass of Thanksgiving on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. Father Anthony has served throughout the Diocese of Peoria, ministering to college students and various parishes. He is now pastor of St. Patrick&#8217;s Catholic Church in Andalusia and a college chaplain.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Destined-for-Love-image.jpg\" alt=\"destined-for-love-image\" class=\"wp-image-943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Destined-for-Love-image.jpg 800w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Destined-for-Love-image-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Destined-for-Love-image-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Destined-for-Love-image-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"701\" height=\"316\" src=\"http:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/The-Pray-More-Retreat-image.jpg\" alt=\"the-pray-more-retreat-image\" class=\"wp-image-969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/The-Pray-More-Retreat-image.jpg 701w, https:\/\/praymoreretreat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/The-Pray-More-Retreat-image-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Father Anthony talks about loving Jesus. He talks about Zacchaeus and how he proclaimed his love for Jesus. Father also encourages us to seek and devote our days into loving and truly being devoted to God in our everyday lives.&nbsp; Thank you for watching and participating in this retreat! Not Registered, yet? 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