Given to the Syro-Malabar community of Louisville, Apr 7, 2019 (4th Week of Lent) at Holy Family Catholic Church for their Easter preparation retreat. Thank you for the introduction friars, and the invitation to speak today. I have known these Franciscan friars for at least six years and have greatly enjoyed their friendship and ministry here to you, to Bellarmine, and young adults. They like to invite me speak, sometimes with not much warning. . One of my favorite Fr. John stories: I was travelling as a chaperone with him to Kerala for Christmas in 2013 along with a group of Bellarmine students. We stayed at their gorgeous friary in Karukutty. Kate and I went to morning mass with the novices there at 7am one of our first mornings there. I was feeling a bit jetlagged from the long travel. I listened to Fr. John read the Gospel, afterwards he said, “it is not our custom to give homilies at morning mass, so I would like to invite Ned to come up and say a few words.” Needless t