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Finding the Divine in Art: Kate Capato's Journey of Faith and Creativity

• David Patterson • Season 2 • Episode 25

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Have you ever sensed the divine in the brushstrokes of a painting ? Join me, David Patterson, as I sit down with Kate Capato, a visionary sacred art painter and dancer from Philadelphia, who weaves her faith into every piece of art she creates. Kate's life is a testament to the transformative power of beauty, rooted in the divine. 

This story isn't just about art—it's about the whispers of God in the every day. Kate's story is a tapestry of prayer, inspiration, and a pursuit of heavenly beauty that doesn't shy away from life's intricate details. Kate inspires anyone seeking to infuse their life with purpose and passion. Join us for a conversation that celebrates the intentional strokes of the Creator in life's grand canvas, and discover how small moments can spark profound change.

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Speaker 1:

Welcome to yes Catholic, the place where real people share their real stories and realize it is all God's grace on the move. I'm your host, David Patterson, and every week we hear a new guest share their story of how they came to give their yes to Jesus and his church. So let's get started. Tonight we have Kate Capato. Welcome, Kate. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your story.

Speaker 2:

Thanks for having me. It's great to be here.

Speaker 1:

Absolutely so. For those who don't know you, why don't you share a little bit about yourself before we dive into the rapid fire?

Speaker 2:

Sure, I'm a sacred art painter based in Philadelphia. I do a couple other type of art. I'm an artist just in my heart, all the way. So I dance as well. I do a bit of photography, but mostly sacred art painting. And we're as a family my husband and I have a new little boy. We kind of as a whole family unit, do a mission of beauty we like to call it where we use all of our gifts painting. My husband's a musician. My little son I don't know yet, but whatever the Lord wills for him and we travel around with the arts, spreading God's love through beauty. So my days are filled with all mixing. Sometimes it's in the studio painting for commissions, whether it's a church or a private commission. Other times we're literally taking a van filled with art and music gear and going from state to state to spread God's love. Incredible, and that's a full time mission that you've got going on right now to spread God's love.

Speaker 1:

Incredible, and that's a full-time mission that you've got going on right now.

Speaker 2:

Yes, very full-time.

Speaker 1:

Amazing, yeah, and friends, if you have not seen her artwork, it is sacred and it is incredible. I highly recommend that you hit that follow button and check it out. But we're gonna get to know you a little bit more with the Rapid Fire Icebreaker Challenge. It's gonna rhyme off some questions ready to tackle that.

Speaker 2:

sure, let's do it all right describe yourself as a kid as three words okay. Uh, I would say creative, dramatic and playful as well.

Speaker 1:

Okay, would you say that you're a morning person or a night?

Speaker 2:

owl, night owl, for sure.

Speaker 1:

Night owl. Do you stay late painting? Is that usually how it goes, or?

Speaker 2:

Not necessarily painting. I just I just cannot wake up early. I've never been able to, and I've just always have the ability to be up after midnight later. My husband and I are both the same way, and we're hoping our son is too. But we'll see that's awesome.

Speaker 1:

Okay, if you could have any superpower, what would it be?

Speaker 2:

to bilocate, I think bilocate.

Speaker 1:

That I swear. That's for weeks people really, oh my goodness.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I don't know, maybe padre pio is inspiring, right, right padre pio inspiration going on.

Speaker 1:

Okay, go-to order at a coffee shop. I'm always interested in this one.

Speaker 2:

Chai latte with either oat milk or almond milk.

Speaker 1:

That's the go-to.

Speaker 2:

I can't do coffee. It gives me anxiety. Yeah, no, that's fair I love the coffee world, but, yeah, I have to go chai.

Speaker 1:

Nothing wrong with that, okay.

Speaker 2:

Go-to short prayer as you're going about your day. Grant me the grace constantly saying that prayer when, like, things go wrong, or I'm just anxious, or or even just like a big thing, a big task, a big painting, whatever it is lord, grant me the grace and as you're painting, is there a certain prayer that you pray, or is it?

Speaker 2:

not like a specific word, it's just constantly offering it back to him and like, lord, you paint, let me get out of the way. Or like, if I need a certain inspiration, lord, I don't know what to think of. Like it depends on what stage I'm in, lord, if I'm trying to compose something, give me the inspiration here. Or what do you want me to say? It's just kind of it's dialogue really, I guess is the best way I could say it, asking him a lot of questions and trying to listen.

Speaker 1:

Well, Okay, favorite book of all time or one of you know I was, as you like, proposed that earlier.

Speaker 2:

I I love Theology of the Body, just given the context of what it is. But in terms of like a read, I might say Island of the World. Have you ever read that? By Michael O'Brien. It's a thick novel. He's a Catholic author. By Michael O'Brien. It's a thick novel. He's a Catholic author, but it's fiction. But there's a lot of like historic accuracy within it and it's super seeped in Catholic faith and it's a good read. You'll be crying here and there and just the whole. I don't want to give it away, but the island of the world and Michael O'Brien.

Speaker 1:

Okay okay, I'll have to check that one out for sure. Okay, two more. If you could have coffee with any saints not coffee, sorry, chai tea latte, uh, who would it be?

Speaker 2:

I think I think jp2 oh, there's a lot of good winners I was debating mary would be great too, but I I think there's something about the fatherly like JB too would be amazing. He's, he's an artist. I just think how he spoke to the youth is has always drawn my heart towards him. Um, I would have a lot of questions for him. Just, he's really cool. Spoke 10 languages. I'm sure everyone knows a lot about him. I would just love to pick his brain and just to hear his heart more.

Speaker 1:

All right Last one. If you could ask God one question, what would it be?

Speaker 2:

Yeah. So the melancholic in me is like one question I think I would ask what does the space you're preparing for me in heaven look like? Wow? Yeah, refer referring to that scripture verse of like I go to prepare a place for you, yeah, and I, as an artist, like I've heard, there are colors we don't know about, they're probably like, and there's just like animals I don't know. Animals would even be the right word. Things that we don't even know about on earth exist in heaven, and I just would be.

Speaker 1:

I'm excited I love that question so much. That's never been asked before like this podcast, but it's. It's yeah, that's really good. I'm gonna, I'm gonna think on that myself. I think, right well, you flew through the rapid fire. Let's uh, kick things off with an opening prayer and we'll have you share your story father and the son and the holy spirit.

Speaker 1:

Amen, come, holy spirit, teach us how to pray. Heavenly father, I thank you so much for and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen, come, holy Spirit, teach us how to pray. Heavenly Father, I thank you so much for Kate and for her witness and her family. And Lord, I just thank you for the beauty of her art and the ways that it is evangelizing so many hearts back to you.

Speaker 1:

And Father, I just pray that we would decrease, so you would increase in this conversation. Let everything that we share and talk about just give you glory. I pray for everyone who is listening and will tune in in the future. Lord, I just pray that you give us the grace to open wide our hearts, as St John Paul II echoed. Dear young people, do not be afraid. Open wide the doors to christ. So, lord, give us the grace to open that door to you, and we make this prayer in jesus name. Amen, saint john paul ii, please pray for us, the father and the son and the holy spirit. Amen. Right, kate, let's dive right in. Where does your story begin?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so as a young girl, I always loved creating. I love nature. I would go out in nature. I remember when it would snow out and I would just stare at snowflakes and just being enamored by what God has created and just the fact that all snowflakes are so uniquely made, none look alike, and that was so cool to me. I would create dances, like choreograph whole dance performances and invite the whole neighborhood over and make birthday cards, kind of just was that type of girl, and it never really stopped. So I just always loved creating.

Speaker 2:

Eighth grade, I had a really, really cool experience. I had gone through elementary school. We were homeschooled, but I also was dealing with kind of, I would say, like a sickness I don't want to name what it was, but something that I had for years, probably about six or seven years and in order to go back to high school like to actually go to a physical high school, I needed to not have this any longer, and I remember praying to particularly St Catherine Drexel I bring this up because it's just really cool and she was a blessed at the time and, as we know, if you ask particularly those that are about to be canonized or in that state it's a really good time to ask for miracles. So I asked for her intercession and I remember praying and I also made a little promise to the Lord that day. Like Lord, if this happens, I promise to become closer to you. And I woke up the next morning completely healed.

Speaker 2:

Wow no trace of what I was dealing with ever again. And it changed my faith in a good way, obviously, and made me really recognize oh, god's listening to me, and this is real, not just what my parents have said. And I, by God's grace, have kept that promise to go to get deeper into faith. And I went into high school and it was a Catholic high school. So I got to go to like mass regularly at their. They had it like in the mornings or during lunchtime if you wanted to go, and I went on their Kairos retreat. I'm not sure if you're familiar with that. A lot of people, at least I know in our area they had that at high school and it was really powerful for me. I continued to just fall deeper in love with God there, to hear him in a whole new way of prayer and recognize him in a way that he, he cared for what I cared for and it wasn't just right like rituals or rules. It was a father who was tender and so you know I had these experiences of faith and I also loved creating.

Speaker 2:

So after, after high school, I was like okay, god, what do you call me to do? I know I love you and you're. You've shaken up my world. I want to tell people about you. So I knew I desired that. I'm like, but I also love art. And it always was a but, because I was seeing in the culture that these two things were separate at least what I thought, and a lot of times. At least what I thought was the faith only existed in terms of art in the Renaissance days, way back when you know, and it's just not something that happens today. So it didn't really cross my mind that I could ever do the two things combined. So I thought, okay, well, I like fashion, maybe I'll do fashion design. And with that in my mind quickly realized that wasn't the path God called me to.

Speaker 2:

Then I shifted and went to art therapy, which was getting closer. I was able to help, you know, go on the lines of helping people with art. And again, I would have, I would have had to get my master's in this and it just wasn't right. It wasn't singing, and so I actually kind of took a break after getting my undergrad. I did get my undergrad and with setting myself up for that, but I ended up doing mission work in the States and overseas for a little bit of time and like all odds and ends in terms of jobs, and just kept creating and dancing on the side.

Speaker 2:

And eventually I had the opportunity to actually perform in Florence, italy, and there I came across a school that is a sacred art school. That was fairly new at the time and I was like what this exists today and a little light bulb in me and I was already committed to a mission organization in the States and dance company. So it wasn't the time. But a couple of years later the Lord brought it back on my heart again and it was just like very clear that I needed to go, and I didn't know if I could ever afford it. I thought maybe I'd do the summer program. Honestly, it's way more affordable than anything here in the States. So it turned into being able to go to their full program of painting and it all was focused on sacred art and I was just able to really dive into the skills that the Lord has given me. And not only that just being in Florence, italy if you have ever gone, or if anyone has ever been there, you can see just God's beauty everywhere, every street corner you're on. There's like the Madonna up there or something really refocusing you back to the Lord and it's really powerful and it just really shaped my understanding of being able to utilize the faith more and after graduating there, I was able to begin sacred art full time, yeah.

Speaker 2:

And then I came home, also got married and stuff in the meantime and, as I mentioned, my husband has since joined me. He's a full-time music therapist, but after three years of marriage we discerned that it was time for him to leave that position and join what the Lord was calling us to do together as a family unit. So it's always an adventure. I like to say that because when we say yes to God, it's not easy, breezy, as I'm sure you know. I could give you so many hilarious. I say hilarious now because God always works it out. We have had cargo vans flood and broken toes and just ridiculous stories. Whenever we go and say yes to God to bring his love to people, it's not without trial, but it's always with his victory as well.

Speaker 1:

It's really cool. Yeah, that's so good. So how do you get inspiration for your paintings?

Speaker 2:

if someone commissions a work to say that they come to me and they say I really would love a painting of saint trez or whatever, I will ask them okay, why like? What about her inspires you? Or, you know, if it's for a church, why do you think your parishioners would want this? You know just, I would dive into their heart and then I would take that and pray with that in adoration and ask the Lord to lead me getting an inspiration for composition that will speak into their hearts. But if it's a personal image that I've created, a lot of times it's come to me just through things that I've learned in my own prayer life. Let's see.

Speaker 2:

An example would be I have an image called the one who gave myrrh, and that concept I had been like praying with for years prior to actually painting it. I felt like it's based on the Magi, one of the Magi, and I felt like the Magi was following me for like several years and particularly the concept of myrrh and understanding what myrrh meant was. It's a symbol of suffering and as I learned this throughout the year, I felt like the Lord was teaching me how that offering was not only a gift of of showing what's to come with the Lord's suffering, but it was a gift from that Magi's heart as well, like the joint sufferings. So when you are really close with somebody, you're not just going to share their joys, you're going to share the trials too. So it's a gift of I'm going to give my suffering to Christ, but also I'm going to receive his suffering, so I'm going to receive his suffering. So this was something God was teaching me.

Speaker 2:

So I was inspired by just, yeah, learning more of what he wanted me to show, wanted to show me in my own spiritual journey, and then eventually the Lord called me to paint it, articulate it, and, yeah, so that's, if anyone, you can see that on my website, it's again called the one who gave myrrh and it's an image of one of the magi holding the infant christ and the infant christ is holding, uh, the myrrh in its raw form, which actually has thorns, and um, there jesus has like a really bright halo, almost like the star of bethlehem, and um, it's very intimate, it's just showing kind of that intimate embrace. Now obviously I don't know factually if he ever would have held the Christ child, but spiritually thinking, that moment I'm sure is very intimate to just encounter the baby Christ, you know so. But it's hopefully showcasing that exchange of hearts, not just the joys but also the trials.

Speaker 1:

I love that and you said that it kind of came up in prayer. Like are you? Are you like a very much into imaginative prayer where you're like visualizing that, you almost like see that image, or is it? Is it like reading the word?

Speaker 2:

I'm just yes, great question. It's a lot of things. So during my high school years the Lord introduced me to charismatic prayer. So I do pray charismatically. Um, I also, I like praying all the ways, I love praying with Latin, I love reading scripture and like Visio Divina and Lectio Divina, all I just think the Lord speaks to us in so many ways. It's just about paying attention. So both ends.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, sometimes I'll hear like a word in my heart. Sometimes I will get a very clear image, not in the sense of like a vision that would be amazing, but that's all the work. More of just like an image that I know that wasn't my own Right Will come to my heart and mind. And I've, just through prayer of like growing in relationship with God, I've learned to pay attention to those and not just think that they're distractions and just say like, okay, lord, this is this of you, and discern that and pray with that. And, yeah, and it just started to become very clear of how to create this, this image, this moment, this uh, understanding of exchange of sufferings and how to portray that visually. So, yeah, it comes in all different forms. That's not. It's not like really concretely answering your question.

Speaker 1:

It's kind of pointing to the fact that you know God speaks to us in very different ways. But pay attention disappointing the fact that you know god speaks to us in very different ways, but pay attention to the ways that he's speaking right.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's just funny because yesterday, even in prayer, the lord very clearly said to my husband and I like, don't put me in a box.

Speaker 2:

Like oh and we do that as as people of faith, because we want to feel safe and God, god I love. Like we can think of Narnia, like he, the lion aspect. Like he's, he's good and he's real, but he's not safe, and that's not a bad thing to say. Like he's he. He's so much bigger and bolder and can do a lot more than we ever allow him to sometimes, and we put them in a box too much.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, amen. Oh, that's a really good point. One of the questions that came in, uh, from our yes, catholic community was what does God tell you when you are painting his saints?

Speaker 2:

Hmm, it's probably so if, if it's a particular saint, I I research and study about them. So, like I've done Padre Pio, I've done Francis, Mother Teresa, I've done a couple of JP too, I would say it's just really learning about their hearts and how they were devoted to Christ. And, like Padre Pio, I learned you know, we know about his stigmata, but he also had the shoulder wound I don't know if everyone knew that which is where Christ carried the cross, and that was more of a hidden wound. So, discovering that, like I learned a lot of new things that I didn't always know, beginning a project, and it helps me fall in love with these saints and how the Lord loved them as well. So, yeah, that's like a general question, so I don't have like a specific answer because I think it's different for every saint that I might create. Yeah, it's just really learning about them more and how they devoted their hearts and lives to God.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you spoke about prayer a little bit, but any advice on drawing deeper in relationship with God through prayer, just on what's really worked for you is the word, but like, it's not just this, it's really letting our hearts experience him, which I will say I think is sometimes a little easier for women than it is for men. Not to. I just, I think we've been given a disposition, but I don't think it's impossible for men at all. There are great mystic saints out there that are men and I, but I say that because women have been gifted with receptivity in a different way than men, that the men are also invited to into and um, I just think the key is waiting and being patient, but also, um, again, don't put god in a box. And two, he can be more simple than we make him out to be.

Speaker 2:

So like you mean, don't over complicate it kind of deal yes, like sometimes we want god to be this big, thunderous voice and he's just like a simple, beautiful butterfly that comes by. I don't know like he, he can speak in the simplest of terms if he wants to, and it's all about creating, um, a sensitivity to the fact that he's speaking to you regularly. He does speak to us regularly. I think that's a big thing is to be aware that he's always trying to reach our hearts, and it's often that we're just really busy or don't think he wants to talk to us. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1:

Like recognizing that God is actually in the details.

Speaker 2:

Everywhere. Once I started to learn that I'm like what, this was so intentional and he did this and did that. When you read scripture, you see it over and over again. If you look at the mass, and then you you compare that to scripture, you compare that to old Testament. Everything comes to life. God does not do anything just willy nilly. It's always a great intentionality. Um, and this is what I started to learn.

Speaker 2:

So sometimes, sometimes in prayer, I'll receive just a simple color. Like I'll say I'm seeing the color purple. Well, I like dive in and study, like, well, what is the symbology of purple? And, oh, my goodness, it speaks to exactly what I needed to hear in that moment, something that the Lord's teaching me. Or like I'll see a flower or whatever it is, and I'm like oh and, and usually like way back when I probably would like that's a weird thought, like ignore that, like why am I thinking about this? You know, focus on prayer, kate, but that is the Lord, he to me and using ways that my own heart can receive it, and I've learned to pay attention to those things Now, yes, sometimes I still get distracted, but I always. If we're always bringing it back to God, we start to be able to discern better. Okay, that one was from the Lord or that one was a distraction. I can ignore it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, but I think, even just like taking that moment to say Lord, like show me how you were in the details today, yes. Reveal it to me, show me how you're moving through today, I mean.

Speaker 1:

I'll give you an example, show me how you're moving through today. I mean, I'll give you an example. I was invited to a retreat by my mom and it was the retreat that changed my life, where I was completely away from the church, not going to mass whatever, and a priest met me in the parking lot and he was wearing a cowboy hat. And it was so interesting because it was a minor detail that I just brushed off Right. But years later I was doing a podcast, I was being interviewed and somebody just randomly asked me like what's the deal with the cowboy hat? I remembered that my grandfather, who picked me up every day from school, who was very much a father figure to me, was that God sent an image of fatherhood to me Right In the moment where I was about to leave. I was, I was calling my friends to come get me and that was the image he sent to cause me to, and that and that retreat saved my life.

Speaker 2:

Wow.

Speaker 1:

And so it's amazing how, in our stories, there's layers right.

Speaker 2:

Details where it's like Whoa, you know amen, You're making me think of another cool story of have you ever done a word of a year where you ask. God, it's called word like word of the year.

Speaker 2:

You say, lord, what's my word this year that you want me to kind of pray with? So two years ago I got the word covenant and I was asking for confirmation about this. And, um, I began like diving into it already and studying a little bit and I read in scripture how, um revelation, there's the. It talks about an Emerald rainbow over Christ and his throne. So it's just a green, a green rainbow, and I'm like, okay, that's really cool, and a rainbow we know like everlasting green is a symbol of like life, like eternal life. So I'm like, okay, that's cool and it's, it's.

Speaker 2:

This whole thing is also symbolic of covenant. Anyways, I'm asking the Lord to again confirm. Is this the word for me? Blah, blah, blah, cause it still was like the beginning of the year, I kid you not. I woke up the next morning and we look out our window, our front window, and my car was. We're in the city and my car is parked there on the road and there was a random balloon that somehow got attached to my tire, like it must've been blown in the wind, and it stuck there and this balloon was literally an emerald green balloon.

Speaker 1:

Of course it was.

Speaker 2:

I was like what Okay Confirmation? That's the word course it was. I was like what Okay confirmation? That's the word for the year. I'm like wow, yeah. So God, just to affirm what you just said, like he is very intentional. It's just all about like opening those heart ears.

Speaker 1:

I like to say yeah, so, so important, just and ask him simply, right, like, don't put them in a box, but simply ask show me. Okay, you said that saint john paul ii is one of your favorite saints yes are there any others that have really just kind of?

Speaker 2:

saint catherine of sienna okay, he's one of my patrons. Saint rosa lima also, she's my confirmation saint.

Speaker 1:

Why St Rosa Lima? Because I'm interested in that.

Speaker 2:

Okay, she was a young girl who actually Christ came to her, would appear to her as a little boy and taught her how to read and write, and that inspired me as a young girl. I'm like, well, I want Jesus to talk to me. You know, like that's really cool, come and teach me things. So that particularly has always struck me about her and she is actually really inspired by St Catherine, so they're kind of intertwined. So I have similar stories in the sense that she didn't become a nun or get married, but was consecrated and would do work to help her family still and would do work to help her family still but pretty much lived a life of prayer and sacrifice and was like just this stunning girl that just completely devoted her heart to God and had a very intimate relationship with him.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and Catherine, catherine has like a bold like actually I'm really we have a book study that we're planning on reading her dialogue next. I'm excited about that. But I've recently learned about how much she like would go out, even though she didn't want to. She preferred to be home and living more contemplative life and God was like get out, go speak to people and minister publicly. So she did and like, changed a lot of hearts that way.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, amazing. The last question I'm going to ask is what is your hope for the future of our church?

Speaker 2:

My hope would be that we really fall in love with the Eucharist, even from my own heart, like I say this and I know this, but I, I, I hope that we all are like dripping with love for the Eucharist in a way that like we can't shake not being in his presence, because it's a gift that I think we can verbally talk about, but like, do our hearts really follow that percentage wise? We know our church is lacking in that area, so that would be my hope. And and there's such beauty there, like he is true beauty, and to go to adoration or to receive the Eucharist, like you are in the presence of true beauty. I think of scripture when Moses would go up to the mountain and his face would come back glowing, just from that encounter. So just imagine what we get to encounter and like the glow that we would experience it just there's just so much there.

Speaker 1:

So, yeah, for dripping hearts like to understand what that is more fully I love how you said the glow, because I've kind of been in a season of if I see someone that's joyful, I'm like, oh, you got the jesus glow yeah yeah, it's, it's.

Speaker 2:

I'm like, oh, you got the Jesus glow. Yeah, yeah, it's, it's it's so recognizable.

Speaker 1:

It's like this radiant joy that you can't fake because it can only come from from the one.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that's why we use halos in sacred art, like it's, to represent the presence of, of the spirit, the Lord, the glow, it's a thing.

Speaker 1:

It's definitely a thing. Well on the note, kate, I just want to thank you so much for your yes to Jesus and his church. So if people want to connect and learn more about your sacred art, how can they go about doing that?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I have a website visualgraceorg. I have Instagram Facebook visualgracesacredart. Facebook is visualgracesacredart. Facebook is visualgracekatecapado. You're welcome to head to my shop at visualgraceorg and get a discount. Yes, 15 is the special.

Speaker 1:

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Speaker 2:

Yes, 15. Yep, yes 15. Just put that in the discount box when you check out and you'll get a 15% off.

Speaker 1:

And word on the street is that it doesn't expire. Is this true?

Speaker 2:

It doesn't no, so any of your special friends get to use it. So Awesome.

Speaker 1:

Thank you for that.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. Yeah, I'm on LinkedIn too. I'm trying to think where else you'll find. If you go to my website, you'll find all those things to connect with, and if you want to chat about commissioning anything, just reach out through my website, inquire there. Yeah, I would love to bring more beauty into our churches, into our home, the domestic church.

Speaker 1:

So that's awesome. Well, thank you so much again. Would you be willing to close us in prayer tonight? Sure Thank you so much again.

Speaker 2:

Would you be willing to close us in prayer tonight? Sure, awesome, in the name of the Father, son, holy Spirit, amen, holy Spirit, lord, we thank you for this time together. We thank you for your presence. We thank you for just your beauty, lord, and your love. And Lord, we just ask for your grace to go deeper, to fall deeper in love with you, to understand the gift of the Eucharist more fully, to understand the gift of our church and I pray for anyone listening whatever it is that their hearts need as well. Lord, just grant them the grace to receive you and to say yes to you. We praise you and we ask for the intercession of Our Lady as we pray. Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen, amen. Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us In the name of Jesus Christalupe, pray for us.

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