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#23 - Fr. Danny Taylor - Newest Priest in the Catholic Diocese of Lexington
The Deacons sat down with Fr. Danny Taylor, Parochial Vicar at @St. Mildred Catholic Church in Somerset to talk about life as the newest priest in the Diocese of Lexington. Fr. Danny was ordained in June of this year. It was an exciting conversation to hear about his faith journey including being ordained during a global pandemic, his life journey as a cradle Catholic, and how God calls all of us in different ways,
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Tim Stout :Hey, everybody. Good evening. Good evening. Welcome to another episode of deacons discussions and drinks. I'm Deacon Tim Stout, Deacon Dallas Kelly, following linguine and we're back in the studio at car dome. And we have father, Danny Taylor, live with us tonight. Welcome to the show. Father, Danny, thank you. Sometimes it's overwhelming when people walk in here for the first time to see the setup. This is a real deal setup. Yeah, I feel I
Fr. Danny Taylor :feel intimidated by this. No pun intended, intimidated. But uh, there we go.
Tim Stout :I got it. I got it. I got it. Don't be intimidated. We'll try to break the ice just a little bit. Before we jump into you and your intro. We always like to start with some current events. So we'll talk a little bit about current events. We'll come to you if you want to throw one in just kind of gets the the show going. If these guy sometimes these guys, I'm the hardest work Steve's the hardest working guy here. I'm the second hardest working guy here. Which is guess these guys don't really work. So but, but
Dallas Kelley :I climbed the flight of stairs to be here.
Tim Stout :So, so you want to start with current events?
Dallas Kelley :Sure. Right.
Tim Stout :Yeah. Which one are you gonna use the one we talked about now? Okay, you do that one. I'll use the one we talked about earlier. Okay, good
Dallas Kelley :federal judge rules in Pennsylvania. The Governor Tom Wolf's COVID-19 shutdowns. Our constitutional federal judge struck down some Pennsylvania's Coronavirus restrictions as unconstitutional including the closure of non life sustaining businesses. The federal judge ruled forcing businesses to shut down entirely and stay at home order are both unconstitutional some business owners say they've been waiting to hear that ruling for months. It actually brought tears to my eyes one store owner filed that's happening here too. Yeah, we are we will be ruled on sometime in the future about that too. I think
Tim Stout :the arguments were today or yesterday I think at the supreme court hearing today yesterday Yeah.
Dallas Kelley :Crazy they were I think they ruled you cannot take people's civil liberties like that.
Fr. Linh Nguyen :But you brought that up the Diocese of San Francisco this weekend will protests because someone Cisco is still banned. Indoor mass they only allow one perform if an outdoor only less than 10 people the the bishop is round up the Catholic do do a protest with the with the adoration by satin procession make their way to the cathedral and section people off in 50s and separate mass set quarterly quarterly Corleone and sound very God.
Tim Stout :Yeah, had they not seen the movies, you know? I that's a good current event. It's awesome.
Fr. Linh Nguyen :Just and then and then it Interesting. Jerome Solis deki, for Milwaukee was my moral professor. He just plays back for restriction, obligation to go mass and as is obligated now.
Tim Stout :Is that Milwaukee Milwaukee? Yeah, he was the first. He's a second. The second was the somebody in South Africa. Yeah. So well, my current event was, for the second time in a few weeks, there's was a priest that was identified that wasn't actually ordained. And I bring that up, because I said, Father, Danny Taylor's gonna be on the show next week in Dallas. Are you sure he's Oh,
Dallas Kelley :are you sure he's baptized? I gotta go back and watch the replay.
Tim Stout :Well, that's your generation, right? I mean, now those the generations now have that replay, so I guess there could be some.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Well, the funny thing about it, I hate to jump in here, right. But yeah, go Hey, I was cleaning out my mom's garage during quarantine. And it was just the garage was just disgusting. But anyways, we got to kind of put together and I found a tape. That's a Danny's baptism was a VHS tape. I was like, awesome. I can see my baptism. So I put it in. And it had been recorded over by like some cartoon on never know if
Tim Stout :we just assumed that you were
Fr. Linh Nguyen :baptized you a bob Murphy. Joe. No, that's a judgment. That's questionable.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Old School though. I hope that Yeah.
Fr. Linh Nguyen :Oh, he's legit. He's sure he's a real thing.
Tim Stout :The dude that are the Jesuits, the ones that started all the language changes.
Fr. Danny Taylor :No comment. I don't feel qualified.
Tim Stout :brave enough to answer that question. There'll be a study done. The church will commissioned a study to find out how many of these pop up over the next five years. Yeah. And I find it what's the root cause?
Dallas Kelley :Yeah, I found it. Amazing that it's just one word. And it's the first word. We you know, instead of I
Fr. Danny Taylor :yeah, I'm sure I'm sure those those. I guess both of them were deacons. Sorry, deacons. That's right. Uh, we follow the
Tim Stout :rule we follow. We follow
Dallas Kelley :our Dennis's advice.
Fr. Danny Taylor :I'm sure they thought they were doing something that was kind of innocuous. They weren't trying to do anything wrong. It's just you know, hindsight is 2020 to follow the rules like you said,
Fr. Linh Nguyen :Remember the big controversial overdue translation of the creed? You know, remember, I believe and we believe remember that when we call back to the AI people say why was excluded that they all have behind that? There's a reason that's the logical reason because we use
Tim Stout :AI not we could do a whole show on that good. Oh, definitely. I can help you with that. You'll be in charge of that episode
Fr. Linh Nguyen :do that. I'd like to listen to that episode. I'm a little technical trainer that understand why theology behind it look up. You know, the Pope Emeritus probably matters I'm writing
Tim Stout :it down right now if I was going to lead a class on one word on one word, we versus
Fr. Linh Nguyen :three Pope Emeritus he have a clarification over the decreed why we use AI not we got it's real thing.
Tim Stout :Okay, I've got it written down. Oh, no, sir.
Fr. Linh Nguyen :Not Episode 24. No.
Tim Stout :30 something 30 something for sure.
Dallas Kelley :And you're on your own on that one. because
Tim Stout :that'll be when we're on vacation. You can do that show. We'll give you the Queen will give you Stacy will give you an iPhone. You can do that recording.
Dallas Kelley :on your own. You have to
Tim Stout :you have to stop and get your own beer. We'll edit that. Father Danny guiding current events you'd like to talk about? share thoughts.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Oh, gosh. I mean, there's just so much going on. I'm just overwhelmed with the news. I kind of just turn it off. You know, I know it's escapist. But uh, you know, I'm not a big news watcher. I
Tim Stout :what's going on down in Somerset? anything exciting going on down there?
Fr. Danny Taylor :Somerset. I mean, gosh. There's just like any other Parish, you know, just trying to worship God during the pandemic, trying to bring together a community. It's hard to do. But yeah, just like everybody else. Just trying to trying to keep things together. I couldn't give you any specific events. I did watch your live stream from last Sunday. I always like to do a little bit of research. I thought you did a good job. Really? No, I think your your streaming is pretty good. So yeah, no, they do a really good job. They have a really nice setup and people will try and troubleshoot and get that
Tim Stout :didn't look like a whole lot of people inside. What's the
Fr. Danny Taylor :we're doing the mass counts right now. I think last week, we have three masses. I think 160 people in total between the three masses. We have two English masses, one Spanish. I think the breakdown of that was like 100 Hundred, maybe 90 English speakers and then there was 70 Spanish speakers so
Tim Stout :Wow. Yeah, that's a that's an interesting breakdown. So you're at St. Mildred in Somerset?
Fr. Danny Taylor :That's correct. Yes. So I'm the parochial Vicar at St. Mildred and good shepherd Catholic mission In Whitley city. And then also the sacramental minister along with Father Jay, who's my pastor at St. Peter in Monticello. So get around quite a bit.
Tim Stout :Sounds like he's got more going on than you did
Fr. Linh Nguyen :well, but I think I'll be we'll need to know further Dan is a baby priests is the youngest latest ordain in our diocese but the question need to ask father Dan is How's it going?
Fr. Danny Taylor :Oh, you still fresh It's going good I mean, it is it's gone by so fast and like you trying to get me like name current events and everything events, man, I'm just trying to catch up. It's It's It's crazy. Like you know, this fatherland is just like, everything comes at once. And you know, one minute you're in a hospital room, literally somebody I was with somebody when they when they died. You're doing Kean, Seon, yeras, which I've never done before. So I don't know what I'm doing there. We like
Tim Stout :we like those up here by baptizer. Yeah, Spanish baptism and can scenario so those are like, the good ones.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Yeah. So I mean, things are just so crazy. One of the things that's a big takeaway, I think my first couple months as a priest is admiration for for just regular people. Because you just as a priest, you know, you get this this unearned, intimate intimacy, and you get to see into people's lives and just to see what people go through, especially during this pandemic, in the bravery and kind of trying to look out for their families and take care of them. It's it's just amazing. So admiration for people be on.
Fr. Linh Nguyen :But that bring you a lot of comfort zone of the people at the parishioner is, for me, it is a truly the engine for who we are as priests. Doesn't matter what you learn, you know, there's a lot of knowledge in you about to, to form and to push, but for me that the be integrating has spent time with people. No, it's a phenomenal sheet of faith. I have,
Fr. Danny Taylor :though, for sure. You know, that's what pushes you like, that's what gets you through, you know, and I guess that's the I think that's what people are missing during the pandemic. And everything is is just, you know, the problem, I guess, for me is that I haven't gotten to know most of the community because most people are not coming to mass. And you know, that I do. I am looking forward to that great day, when we're all able to get back together again. But in the meantime, it's everything's been great.
Fr. Linh Nguyen :You push the envelope yet kinda napkins people door and say, Hey, I'm Father Dan, just want to visit you. During this pandemic Have you had to
Fr. Danny Taylor :so I started a calling campaign where I was calling people out of the directory. But then people thought I was a scammer. They called the parish and they talked to markita, which is our superior secretary, beloved secretary. She's awesome. And they're like, I think a scammer is calling pretending to be a priest. He's trying to get money out of us. I never mentioned money. But it was funny. It was funny. So I was looking through the directory calling people and one of the person I called I saw they had a dog and had the name of the dog in the directory. So I was trying to start conversation. And I asked, so how's how's the skipper doing whatever the dog's name, and it goes, Skipper died. And then right, right at that moment, the dog barked in the background. He's like, I gotta go. So it's, it's funny. I'm trying to do the reach out, but you got to be prudent when you do that. Oh, yeah. So I'm trying but uh, trying and failing and learning. That's that's what it means. That's the name of the game. Welcome to police. discipleship. Presto. Yeah.
Tim Stout :There's a, we have to interrupt this broadcast. Oh, wow. There's there is breaking news. Well, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died. So Wow, Supreme Court Justice died.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Yeah, that doesn't make this election process any less contentious, does it? It's 2020. So I'm sorry to say that. I mean, we should obviously somebody died. That's not good. I don't want to make it. No, no, no, no, but it's, but it's, you're right. I mean, the, you factor that into everything else that's going on with I
Tim Stout :mean, if you even if you took out the pandemic, I mean, let's face if we took out the pandemic 2020 would still be a crazy year. And, you know, throw in a Supreme Court justice and what, what we think will happen with, let's face it with the Trump administration, what we'll try to happen in the next short period of time, it may not be enough time, but they would probably try to push a justice or a short period of time. Not enough time. Yeah. But
Fr. Linh Nguyen :I'm not changing subject the other day I was hearing this piece none of us ever imagine. Those kid was born on 911. Okay, his kids 19 years later,
Tim Stout :Steve has triplets by the way.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Yeah, born on 911 2001 Oh, no.
Fr. Linh Nguyen :Okay, 19 years later, they face another crisis, major crisis of the pandemic. And then in college. That amazing. Gosh, those kids, I'm telling you
Fr. Danny Taylor :nobody thought about that. there gonna be some tough kids. Yeah, I should say,
Tim Stout :Hey, I mean it's it's just crazy. And we don't I just want to make sure we we put that out that news out there we we can come back to that later or circle around if it comes up but obviously it's a something that's crazy going on. Don't leave the podcast if you're watching to go keep us in your ears and at least Anyway, I'm sure the newscast are popping all over the place. But it's it kind of goes in the day with what you're talking about you just as a priests. You never know what each day is gonna hold, right?
Fr. Danny Taylor :That's right. They're just surprises every day and it's not. You know, I I will get into I guess we'll get into this later. But I just love being a priest. It's amazing. Like, I guess I'm still in the kind of the honeymoon high. I'm sure there will be lows just like in a marriage. It's like everything. But uh, it's just been amazing. But uh, yeah, there's never a lack of things to do or people to talk to or even during a global pandemic. That's correct. Yeah. No, in some ways, probably even more now.
Tim Stout :Any, any weddings going on down there in Somerset.
Fr. Danny Taylor :So I've done I've done one wedding since I've been a priest, but that wasn't at Somerset at we have one in October.
Tim Stout :I don't know you. You You buried a fellow seminary and I think Did you know? Gosh, I don't
Fr. Danny Taylor :know. No, it was it was actually I'm married somebody because father Matteo Zamora, who's a monk of St. St. meinrad, who is a former priest of the Diocese of Lexington. He couldn't get out of the Abbey. He was cloistered quarantine. So he said marry this person for me in Louisville. So I went and married them. I didn't I didn't hire them. But I witnessed their mayor.
Tim Stout :Oh, yeah, you got it. Right. Sorry. We received the vows.
Dallas Kelley :I looked at No, no, we're not sticklers
Fr. Danny Taylor :about theologians.
Tim Stout :No. I mean, that's that's one of those things.
Dallas Kelley :We say it too that way. Because the average person and listening knows what we mean. When when you tell an average parishioner, I witnessed a marriage their first thought is Oh, you sat in the Pew and you witnessed You know, that's why we say I'm married someone you know, and we say the same thing. We get corrected by
Tim Stout :not by Fatherland, but somebody else. Somebody else in our parish.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Please feel free to correct me. I
Tim Stout :know you said it, right. We didn't need a correction. That's actually that's actually pretty, pretty good. So. So just one wedding in Louisville? That's correct.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Yeah. And we have one in October, and I don't anticipate St. Mildred is really having that many weddings, to be honest. There's not that many young people in the parish. As the reality I would imagine, maybe here, I don't know. But the young people are concentrated in in the Spanish speaking community. I mean, the the angle community has several young people, but the vast majority would be an Hispanic community.
Tim Stout :And you learned Spanish while you're in seminary, right?
Fr. Danny Taylor :Yes, yeah. So that's a big that's a big emphasis, I would say nowadays in the seminary is emphasis on being able to speak Spanish, and having a little bit of Hispanic cultural knowledge, which I think now that I'm out here is so important. Even more important than the length you did immersion. Did you go down into Guatemala? Yeah. So we, they they send our diocese sends to Antigua, Guatemala for a couple months during during seminary formation sometime and yeah, I went down there and it was really cool.
Tim Stout :Helps helps out quite a bit.
Unknown Speaker :Oh, yeah.
Dallas Kelley :Yeah, for sure. No, no doubt. If you know Spanish, your work has doubled.
Fr. Linh Nguyen :Wait for my next trip. My vacation will help me get him them busy. But they Okay, we're gonna learn Spanish.
Fr. Danny Taylor :You're gonna go down. You guys can go down to Guatemala do a podcast from there.
Unknown Speaker :There you go. Cool.
Tim Stout :What do you think Steve? will get Dr. Stan's plane and say, Hey, we're going to Mexico. They'll see his little plane. No side drug runner. No boy, no. Awesome, awesome stuff. So say Mildred Somerset and then you listed off those other parishes? Is it is it predominantly a agriculture community? What, what's what's your makeup? You think of people down there? Yeah.
Fr. Danny Taylor :I think I think it varies. I'm still getting to know the communities right. So I would say that for all three of those communities. The vast majority of the people that demographic are people who moved in from the outside. So these aren't native. They might be native Kentuckians, but they're not native of Pulaski County, which is st Madrid's Wayne County, Monticello, McCreary County that's that that's what the city so they're they're transplants from outside so they're not natives. And then generally I would say that they are more professional types are I would say that at least in the Anglo community, and then yeah, there's not not much not too much farmers I think maybe a few that have small farms but that's not what they have. They gain their livelihood from. So what what has the Spanish speaking community what's what is is there a horse industry down there with no there's no there's no horse industry. There's a few factories, obviously the restaurant and you know, just various restaurants here, but there's there's factories, gosh, I'm trying to remember what they make the factories, but
Tim Stout :I should have done my research.
Fr. Danny Taylor :And there are farm farm workers, for sure. Agriculture workers in this band community. You weren't down that way. Where you were closest you get to that was Danville, right?
Fr. Linh Nguyen :No, no, when I'm on gencon Well, Chicanos on the backside. Well, weirdly, city. Danny probably won't. Private familiar. There's a lot of tourists coming on. Like, you know, the Andrews move down there. Right. Joanne and Mike. They really yeah, they move down there. Joey is going school down there for final years. And they worked on it.
Tim Stout :Well, I know he works from home. He can work from home. Yeah. Where everybody works from home.
Fr. Linh Nguyen :So it's interesting. It's a beautiful place down there.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Oh, no, the natural beauty is amazing.
Tim Stout :Yeah. Ben, you got a big like,
Fr. Danny Taylor :holy do. I haven't gotten out on the lake yet, but a lot.
Tim Stout :Dallas has a brand new boat. We could come down and do some fishing down there.
Dallas Kelley :That would be great. Are you a fisherman?
Fr. Danny Taylor :Uh, no, not really. But I know he's,
Tim Stout :he's he is a fisherman. Oh, yeah. He's a
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Fr. Linh Nguyen :by war nation. indelible mark as a fisherman.
Tim Stout :Interesting. Interesting. So as far as introduction goes, if, if I ran into you, at your church, and I was just sit down, say, whose father Danny Taylor, how would you answer that question?
Fr. Danny Taylor :I kind of well, this is gonna be this is, I guess, plagiarism and kind of cliche, but I really liked the answer that Father, Father, Pope Francis gave in his first interview after becoming Pope. He said, I am a sinner. But I've been, you know, chosen by God's mercy. I think that's his PayPal motto or something. Right? I know. He said, I'm a sinner. I don't know what he said after that. But I would say definitely, I'm a sinner, but chosen, through God's mercy, to be a son of God. And mercifully chosen in this vocation of priesthood. And just to follow Jesus Christ, I would say, that would probably be the most concise way of putting it Catholic. Yeah, I think that would be the most concise way to put it. And I wouldn't want to kind of go on because you could go on and on with these other non essential things, but I think just someone who's in love with Jesus Christ, and wants to follow Him, and that sounds very pious. But uh, I think that would be probably the most accurate.
Tim Stout :Wow, I mean, sounds good. But now what ask even a deeper question. Okay. Go ahead. Let's talk about your face story. So you were ordained in June, right? June of this year?
Fr. Danny Taylor :That's correct. Yeah. June 13, feast of Saint and a patois. And so when did you know you wanted to be a priest? Yeah, gosh, I don't know if this is the most compelling narrative vocation narrative in the world. But they're No,
Tim Stout :they're all good. They're all special. Um,
Fr. Danny Taylor :so I it was a gradual process. For me. It wasn't kind of like St. Paul and road to Damascus moment or anything like that. It was just gradual. Because, you know, I grew up in a Catholic family Catholic on both sides. here in Lexington, right. Yeah, here in Lexington, went to Christ, the king school. kindergarten through eighth grade, went to Lexington Catholic. Then went to UK and kind of stuck around here. So yeah, I went to Catholic schools growing up. You know, solid faith formation there. And but I really think yeah, it's it started in with my family, I would say it kind of went from the family and went outwards.
Unknown Speaker :Yeah,
Fr. Danny Taylor :I would say the biggest thing, the biggest thing for me, I guess, looking back at my vocation story would be this Catholic boys club that my granddad started back in the early 2000s. And it just really built for eternity and made you know, coming to church cool. And a place where we could joke around and we didn't have to be super pious, you know, we could you know, have fun learn about God and we did service went down to the Catholic Action Center every Saturday and yeah, I think it started there. Yeah, I think I think that would that was that was a starting point.
Tim Stout :That's that's I would say similar to mine is my story as well. Dallas has a more of a bright bike conversion I think then then you know what I say that like the road to Damascus, a good Good thing I think, calling I should say Right, yeah. For me, it was more like like yours. You know, you're exposed to it as a family which is a good way to think to get a vocation right to be exposed through your family and Are you only child, brother sibling? See, so I'm one
Fr. Danny Taylor :to five siblings. I'm the middle child. I have two other older siblings and two younger ones. And out of out of my five siblings, I guess this is how it goes nowadays, only me and my brother really practice our faith. So it's not that like, I had that super Catholic family where everybody stayed Catholic. Now everybody kind of went their own way, which I you know, I respect every one of my siblings and everything like that, but it's just funny to see how people end up in different places.
Tim Stout :He you're talking to people that live with our with our kids, too, right? Yeah, I mean, please, we see that with our kids and even see with with my brother as well. But
Dallas Kelley :yeah, I was just talking to somebody the other day that I come from, Matt, there's nine kids in our family. I've got eight siblings. And quite a few of us left the faith. And yet all nine are back.
Unknown Speaker :Well, praise God. Yeah.
Tim Stout :That's unusual.
Dallas Kelley :My mom was underneath a lot. I guess.
Tim Stout :Your your family's all practicing Catholics, dude. Oh, yeah. All your brothers and sisters. Yeah.
Fr. Linh Nguyen :We we on different track.
Tim Stout :It's more in a culture. Is that what you're trying to say? Yeah,
Fr. Linh Nguyen :we right now. I think ours is the next generation. Are we most concerned my nieces nephew. Ooh,
Tim Stout :yeah. And Theodore? What are those guys doing these days?
Fr. Linh Nguyen :Oh, boo is in medical school. Yeah. And Theodore is walking a gun range.
Tim Stout :That's, that's pretty much. That's awesome. But are they practicing their face though?
Fr. Linh Nguyen :Well, they have no choice. You know, let's say that they're after their kids. That's where we concern you know, how they're just third generation third generation when they actually settle into American culture is everything that's all they know. But we happen that's when we are working on that. So culture in the United States bit amines.
Tim Stout :Interesting. So families obviously family play a key part in your life and your your calling. So you went to Leicester Catholic what the UK would you would you major in UK.
Fr. Danny Taylor :So I was I majored in accounting and business management. And really, I just did business management for the first four years. And then I kind of panicked at the end of that I finished the degree and that springs spring semester, I think. But I was like, dang, I don't want to enter the family business, because that's what I've been doing all through college. I was like, I'm gonna go back for accounting and see how that works. So I did another year at UK and got another degree in accounting.
Tim Stout :So I'm gonna say somebody just said Dallas, praise God, because we know our pastors hate business skills.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Well, the problem is I never really used it. So I don't know how useful it'll come back to you.
Tim Stout :It'll come back to you right it's
Fr. Linh Nguyen :important goes vailable at a segment rate right now offer classes for seminarian priests in business.
Fr. Danny Taylor :In management, yeah, they're making it compulsory. Now. Yeah.
Tim Stout :Very important. just such a, such a critical part of, you know, parish life. Really. I mean, there's not a there's not a parish in this country out there. I say that's, that's doesn't have to worry about the financial side of the business side of church, you know, so,
Fr. Linh Nguyen :but I go not is a business. Okay. Yeah,
Tim Stout :people argue with me when I say that, and I and I, when I say that, as I say that, with all due respect, with and with a deep faith, but at the end of the day, in the culture that we live in, you know, we have lights that we turn on, you know, and
Fr. Danny Taylor :I think that's a ministry to is to be a good steward and to use your resources, leverage your resources for to spread the gospel, like what y'all are doing here, this took this took money to be able to do this took, you know, all his money, and all his money, okay. And his mind, but, you know, this is, this is what we're supposed to be doing. It wasn't New Evangelization reaching out. And, you know, yeah, this is important. without, you know, business skills, you guys probably wouldn't have been able to do this.
Tim Stout :But it's, it's interesting. You say that because I listened to another podcast, Catholic podcast, and one of the priests to priest in a light person, I think, and they were talking about, you know, how churches kind of had this little rainy day fund. And, you know, they're putting it away, put it away. And his message was, this is the time to use your rainy day fund. You know, if you're not doing something on social media, if you're not live streaming, if you're not a part of the New Evangelization in an electronic forum, you're toast you're gonna lose out it it has to happen and it has to happen now because what's happening outside of the Catholic Church are all the other Christian religions were already you know, entertainment value are way up here anyway, now for them to the last stream and pull people to that faith is even easier for them.
Fr. Linh Nguyen :But since you bring it up, let me give take a second to advertise our new ministry program that we will implement on October the fourth right We all joining with good shepherd, our neighbor, Paris, and Frankfurt, Frankfurt.
Tim Stout :widly cities that were here.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Yeah, there's three good shepherds, we put together
Fr. Linh Nguyen :a program called Christ in my home. And we use a story. It's a case when Jesus caused the chaos to come down. And Jesus, first thing is I want to stay your home. So the idea is that every Sunday night, there will be a small reflection. You know, our deacons are part of that. They don't know that yet. But they are, share a small reflection of the gospel, and posing a few questions that we prepare for the family to sit together and reflect that Gospel to be aired for the following Sunday go to Mass. Because we want to take this opportunity because family because thank god COVID I hate to say it, but so it's, it has
Tim Stout :helped the family dynamic. There's
Fr. Linh Nguyen :the all together. So this is the way for family really sit down and reflect on the gospel. That is the grand root of everything is in it. So we hope to launch that on October the fourth, that first weekend on October. And then we'll see what happened. This all come down because of this pandemic, and social media is a way to go. So Steve is helping our first video, we're going to do an advertisement. Probably by next week, we're gonna be posting live. So I mean, it's, like said thank God for for COVID. But it does, does challenge I think the Catholic Church more than most other churches. Yeah. So we have to think outside the box. This is the way to do
Tim Stout :you know, we do? We do and we're, you know, we obviously we've been blessed with this card on campus, which has helped quite a bit. But we've got to reach out virtually and just has to happen. So any questions out there in the cyberspace world there? Dallas? Not
Dallas Kelley :yet Not on him? Okay, you got your second degree? That's correct. And then you went home? He said, I want to be a priest.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Now. That's, you know, I think so during my I was a really immature kid. So like, during my high school years, typical kind of wanted to be cool. And, you know, really, I had a hard time like differentiating myself from my family, I would say, so, you know, my high school years, I look back on that. It's like, man, who was I even like, I was still, you know, I guess it's typical adolescent thing, trying to find yourself, create your own identity, separate from your parents, everything like that. So high school years, I kind of went away from the faith a little bit, you know, I think the sexual abuse crisis, I'm of that generation, where, you know, 2000 to 2001, I was 1112 years old. And, you know, hear that these priests that, you know, when I was younger, I was told that it was even a sin to criticize a priest, so to see the sins of these priest, and, you know, hit our diocese, I mean, I'm sorry to say it, but it did, you know, in a hard way. And, you know, I was at the cathedral, so, you know, yeah. So, during high school, typical thing, like, I don't think I didn't believe I think I still believed in God, but I just didn't really care about it. It wasn't like I took the time to really become like an atheist as it's like, yeah, yeah, God existed don't really care about it. It's kind of lame. And I kind of saw the Catholic faith is kind of lame, to be honest. But I think when I exited High School, when I went to, to college, like my two best friends, they didn't go to UK. And so I was kind of, you know, I was kind of alone there. And I was working a lot on the farm. And I think I entered into kind of, I guess, it was like a reflective point for me, because like, I was kind of isolated from community and I was working a lot. And you know, I was just going to school basically, as you know, that's what I was expected to do. But I knew that I was going to work on the farm. So it was kind of it was kind of like a, I don't know, like, it was definitely an identity crisis. And like, I didn't really, you know, where's my life headed? Who, you know, who am I all those, you know, questions that I guess young people ask themselves, and I began, I think when I was about 20, to listen to Catholic radio a lot I listen to, you know, the radio station that we have here. But I was still too afraid. I'm very introverted, very shy, especially back then I was much more so. So I wouldn't like I didn't like go to like the Newman center on campus UK, I thought focus was kind of lame, too. I didn't want to be involved in that I got invited to a lot of focus things. But uh, you know, I did a lot of research myself, and I've always been kind of that way, like looking into the faith towards the end of college. I really started like, so I started engaging more kind of the intellectual part of the faith. And I really started to doubt you know, the existence of God, all of that I can think I kind of went through that was 21 years old, probably. And so I really struggled with that and I was just finishing that degree in in college UK. And I knew that I probably didn't want to work with the family business the rest of my life. But I didn't really have a planned for myself outside of that, and I was kind of losing my, the little faith that I probably did have. And so I would say like 2012, you know, that summer, I was I was still working on the on the farm, family business. And that was kind of a time, like a lot of reflection and back and forth. And when I got to be, I finished my accounting degree in 2013. I kind of knew that I needed to become a priest. And it was really weird. It was really like I went through this, like back and forth, you know, Does God Exist is God not exist, and really engaging with my faith every day, like kind of intellectually, but not talking to anybody. But by the end of the year is like, I think God does exist. And, you know, I don't have any plan for my life. And if God exists, he was going to very immature, I would say my vocation was very immature at that time. But if God exists, what better way than to dedicate my life towards him? And so I started praying more. And I reached out to father Steve Roberts, who was the vocations director at the time. And we started doing both spiritual direction. And then when I got sent to seminary, I think that was probably pretty premature in 2014, because my vocation was very mature. But the formation process in seminary really helped me to, to confirm that God really was calling me to this. So yeah, it's it's, it's kind of a non compelling story, because it didn't involve anybody else. I'm just very introverted. So like, it was all going on the war. The battle for myself is going on in my head. So yeah, that's basically my story. I think.
Fr. Linh Nguyen :That's right. A good story. We all have a different story, right? Yeah, that's true. ej when one of us I have a similar with you, because I was at UK as well. And extremely introverted. And all the battle over the idea and you know, something called me something greater. And it was my my, my brother, who is a priest now was for me data in Dang, he came home one day and insane linear that will become a priest. I say, Yeah, right. And then just literally one dance like, Okay, what the hell, let's give a shot at it. Right. And I remember my driving with Jim Bastian, he was 30. He was in a master degree in electrical engineering. Now he's a chaplain for military Farber, and I'm studying buffalo. And we both drove there right after the final exam. And literally, I look at him at the at the steeple. You know, I look at him I saying What the hell are we doing here? Lynn come down. It might be if meant to me
Tim Stout :Where were you at when that happened?
Fr. Linh Nguyen :On the right when we drove up to st Miami and solve the steeple and that's what it is and as I told the famous when I graduate you know finish my college there the famous shirt that we print actually behind the with the rearview mirror and the two chapel right behind us for the real me we say goodbye to the place but it you know God Collins in strange way, right? That's true. And I remember you know, one of my experience was literally have a hangover and the fan can spin your head you know, just and we my family basically you have to go to church no matter what no compromise so many times you know sit in with Father dad no was a pastor at the Newman center. And it was sent now is like Hugh's headache and hangover and you just said you know, God will mysterious way every one of us. Absolutely. But we have to attune to that mystery, right?
Fr. Danny Taylor :Yeah, I will say even those times, because my situation is very similar to yours. Even those times when I didn't really believe in God, I was I was struggling with that. I kept on going to mass because that was so deeply ingrained a habit of mine, which I can only you know, give thanks to my parents for it's like, I couldn't go you know, this isn't any credit of mine. But I can go through a Sunday not going to mass even if I you know might have been hungover or if I had, you know, horse shit. When you were working on the farm. I was gonna go to Mass, it just was gonna happen just because that was just too I was at that point. But I
Fr. Linh Nguyen :think is good point to that. Hope our listeners out there to know, whatever the conflict you have whatever crisis you know, go to church, you know, spend some time with the Lord. And I always every married couple or a couple coming with problem. First thing I asked, Do you go to church? You know, it's so crucial. You know, kids, I tell him even get anything out to go and shoot anyway. It was just call.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Ya know, my life definitely testifies to that. And then when I found church boring, the power of the mass is just it transcends any lameness that the the priest might be, you know, imposing on the liturgy or whatever the bad music whatever Jesus is, they're
Fr. Linh Nguyen :there all the time, I think very important is very important. The mystery, the mystery is there.
Dallas Kelley :Yeah. Well, one of the questions that just came in was what did Do you have for parents to keep their teens and young adults engaged in our faith?
Tim Stout :Guys, as the youngest priest, you should be able to answer that. Oh my god.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Like when you're talking about technology, I'm definitely a Luddite. I just joined Facebook for the first time this year. And that's because St. Mildred made me join Facebook. So I I'm you
Tim Stout :went through college and seminary without being on Facebook told
Fr. Danny Taylor :you I was introverted. I hate Wow, whatever. This is how, you know, I was definitely very self loathing in high school because I remember thinking when Facebook was out, there was MySpace, too. Before that. I remember who I remember thinking who wouldn't want to be my friend like on Facebook? Like who might have think that I could have friends on Facebook. So that tells you a little bit about my personality kind of this melancholic, self loathing introverted person, but uh, it I definitely love myself, I'm not trying to you know, I'm not a complete self hater. But, uh, just joking about it. I'm keeping keeping young people engaged in the faith. Gosh, this is so you know, I feel myself old at this point, to be honest, I'm 30. So I'm a different generation than then young people or teenagers, definitely, it's a totally different generation. So keeping young people engaged in the faith, I think the main thing that I see is to be open and non reactive, when they rebel, I think that's a huge thing. So when you're young person, when a young person, like, it says, You know, I think, you know, I don't believe in God, or the church hates gays, or whatever it might be that those are big issues, I think now is, don't react so hard. Listen, ask questions be like, Hmm, okay. Why do you think that are? You know, why do you say that? What So, you know, what are your values? What kind of world would you like to create, so, you know, engage them, and show that you have a listening, you know, or an orientation towards listening and understanding instead of, you know, imposing because that's just going to drive people away. But, you know, I don't know, the specific situation of the person asking the question, but, uh, I would say listening and trying to be understanding is is huge. I think
Tim Stout :that's pretty good. Pretty good advice. Yeah. Cuz I'm an author off authoritarian. It's so when that happened with my sons, which it which it did, I was gonna force it on them. It doesn't work. You know, you can't you can't force the faith on people. I mean, we both experienced things in our, with our kids and stuff that you got to let him figure it out.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Yeah, even if you could force it on him, you wouldn't want to because you see, I see that I saw that in myself, is that the kid who's I want to obey my parents to do everything they want? That's not good. That's not good. They need to differentiate themselves and family find their own identity. Absolutely. And I think that's, you know, with with my kids, I think that's one of the things I'm most proud of, is that my, my kids
Tim Stout :have found who they are independent of who I am.
Dallas Kelley :Plus, I think it's harder than ever now with this generation, and the technology and entertainment, you know, everybody's got to be entertained. And I mean, the Facebook's and the games and you go to Mass. And if you don't believe what's going on, it's boring.
Unknown Speaker :Yeah, no.
Tim Stout :Yeah, we definitely the church has to do a better job of, of, and we say it all the time CAD of cases, but really having folks understand what's going on at Mass, you know, because what happens a lot of times, I was like you said, you know, you just kept going, you kept going, you kept going. Sometimes when that happens, people just they they tune out because they don't understand what's going on. We have to we have to educate people to that thing. It's a critical part. And obviously, your parents did a good job of keeping you locked in. Which Yeah,
Fr. Danny Taylor :so I mean, that's, that is a good thing. But like, it didn't work for all the siblings. So I'm a different my personality, for some reason, God through His grace kept me going to church and kept me doing that. But my other siblings, you know, they didn't have any problems going to mass. Because they were they were just different. You know?
Tim Stout :No, we're all different, right? God works in our lives in different ways. And I'm a firm believer that God has us where he wants us and if we can hear him respond to His will. He'll take us to great places. You may not see it that way. But that's,
Fr. Linh Nguyen :that's what that is something very important. I think, in our generation in our culture. Now. We want an instant now, you know, Jane, you look at the history of the church, you can compare between Thomas Aquinas, Thomas, St. Augustine, there's two different story, right? You know, Augustus he wanted the world you know, Thomas Merton, for example. You know, to deal with a kid, but you say I agreed to Pope Francis said to encounter and engage. You know, just like we all react so quickly. Just be kid go home and say, Mom, I don't believe in God. Oh, no, that's the end of the world. Yeah.
Tim Stout :How dare you. I know how I respond. What did I get wrong?
Fr. Linh Nguyen :You know, relax. Yeah, yeah, I told many advisor parents relax. He He or she is it want to engage with you some type of conversation? They might throw that at you. But don't react so quickly, as you say, and just
Dallas Kelley :listen, it's easier said than done.
Tim Stout :But you know, I think sometimes as a parent, I think sometimes that reaction though, at least for me, in You did a good job of talking about it from your faith story perspective is most people have gone through that phase in their lives, right? I went through that phase, and it was a silent phase for me. I mean, I can remember laying at home in my mom dad's house up in my bedroom thinking there is no guide, you know, but nobody else knew it. Nobody else knew I felt that way. I was still going to church and all those things. But so when I hear, you know, one of my kids have that thing. And but it's vocalized. I don't want to show weakness, right. I don't want to show weakness in my faith. Because if this is my thinking here that I'm not saying this is correct. This is the totally correct thing to do. But you try to force for strength, the strength, my faith is strong in me. I'm going to force that onto us. Because if I show weakness, but that's where God's the strongest is when we're vulnerable and we're weak. That's what's a policy,
Fr. Linh Nguyen :right? That's like bold language. So it just be just because your sibling right now they're not going to church, doesn't mean they end up like Dallas, brother and sister now and they're all in engaged in the faith.
Dallas Kelley :Yeah, yeah. No, it's not. I didn't go to Mass from the time I was 12 years old. I was 34. And then I had a man was it to my for a moment, you know? Just God's God's ways, r&r ways. I think I preach on about that this weekend.
Tim Stout :Oh, well.
Dallas Kelley :God.
Tim Stout :If you want to hear the rest of the story,
Dallas Kelley :you don't need me are here. But we may have to have you. Or you you can show.
Tim Stout :Love to have he'd love to have you for a weekend. I'm sure. It's pretty easy right now, though. Right? Just one mass on our weekends.
Fr. Linh Nguyen :Hey, I'm on vacation right now. I'm telling you pass test five months. Awesome.
Tim Stout :He admitted it. He just admitted that he's on vacation for the last five months. It's no, I think you know that that's a it's a dilemma, I think that all families encounter today in a much more visible way than it would have happened in the 80s when we were growing up 70s 80s. Or even in your culture, because, you know, whether your nephews feel that way or not. They wouldn't vocalize it I wouldn't have gotten that if I would have vocalized it in my house. I know what would happen to me. And that's it's just a different culture. And I tried to do I try to try to respond in the current culture based on the way my dad responded, which is totally wrong. Right. And so we just, we just had to listen, I like, you know, your same advice that that you gave to the raising young kids is good, good advice for even folks that are my age that don't have young kids. Yeah,
Fr. Danny Taylor :the one thing that I would say like, I just want to add one thing about engaging the young people is this is something I found very cringe. I don't know if you're familiar with that term cringe. Like that's a big Anyways, what I found very cringe, like, in my youth is when the church tried to be too relevant to the kids like, or they were like, Hey, we're gonna have the, you know, I guess I don't want to be so negative, but the life team mass, I have to say, I just gotta be completely honest. I detested the life team mess. I'm sorry to life. Teenagers out there. I'm sorry. I repent. I'm sorry. Are they still
Tim Stout :doing that? I think,
Fr. Danny Taylor :No, they're not. I don't think they're doing they did. They were very clean. Do they still haven't? I don't know. I'm sorry. If they do. I'm sorry, listeners. I'm offending you. But I tested the lifeteen mess, because I don't know. I just got to be honest, because I think it's so condescending to say, we can't give you real Catholicism or real encounter with Jesus, we need to dumb it down or mold it into what we are projecting the the the the worldview that we think you have or projecting onto you, we need to form it into that image.
Dallas Kelley :We need to add some drums. Yeah. And I'm sorry, I an electric guitar.
Fr. Danny Taylor :You know, we're just not Yeah,
Fr. Linh Nguyen :exactly. What is like the 70 reincarnation, isn't it? The 70s. So I would say
Fr. Danny Taylor :you give authentic Catholicism to your kids, don't water it down. The hard teachings teach the hard teaching with the compassion. And yet don't change who you are to try to win over people. I guess. St. Paul said, you know, try to be all things to all people, but don't like change, like your core beliefs to be like, yeah, it's hip to you know, you know, whatever in church, like, No, just be yourself be authentic. You know, I think that's what young people least that's what I was looking for, as a young person. I don't know what Generation Z what they're looking for.
Tim Stout :But well, it's a different it's a different world right now. I mean, they, you know, there's lots of different top, you know, I was preached about this a few weeks ago that it, it used to be a set group of topics. You know, abortion was always a big issue. Abortion is not a big issue for the current generation, right. It's the environment. All right. So things change. And when when those big topics change, obviously, we have to change. Right? Yeah, we recognize that is true. And I think that's probably one of the things that churches has not done well is prepare our families for that, you know, educate parents about how to deal with it, you know, not just in a podcast show what we're trying to do now, obviously, but even offer that is in small group discussions or, you know, even if it comes out in Bible study, or in some type of adult formation or whatever, you know, we have to be in a position to change the way we approach and educate our families. Graphics vision report, retirement deficient report you're talking about Oh, yeah. So you know, your, your for the rest of eternity you are linked with our Deacon class, you know that right? So the
Fr. Danny Taylor :Yes, because I'm in the photos
Tim Stout :you're in every single one of our phones I've actually I have one in my and actually there's gonna be one up on the screen right now so the viewers can see it. Every day can ordain that year is you're sitting you're dealing right next to us hold the book is the bishop is handing us our book or our hands are in his hands. I'm
Fr. Danny Taylor :sorry, I'm sorry. You gotta
Tim Stout :wait it ironically, it's funny because you say you're an introvert but you're really one of the first when I was going to say matter. For my weekend classes. You're one of the first Lexington seminarians to really come up to me, because we recognized each other obviously, your shop and you were very open. A lot of seminarians aren't aren't that way, especially the younger ones. So I never thought of you as an introvert. He says he's an introvert to which oh my gosh, fatherland. Yeah, I have to okay. Yeah, he's an adult. I
Fr. Linh Nguyen :woke up one day in the seminar, I say, I can't be like this. So I change now I talk way too much.
Fr. Danny Taylor :No, I actually feel that to the seminary really helped open me up. Like it used to exhaust me to talk to like strangers and everything like that. Now I can talk to anybody and I'm not saying I can talk well, but I just like okay, you know, talk with you. conversation
Tim Stout :is a good thing. Say Say manners good place.
Fr. Danny Taylor :It's a beautiful place I'm really that's one of the things I have to admit I am missing now not going back to say minor because you know, this is kind of the weeks in which you begin and everything like that. I'm very happy to be a priest but it's like you know, especially the way we ended last semester we were sent home right in the middle of the semester. It's kind of you never got you know, the kind of the final send off and to say goodbye. But yes, a minor It's beautiful.
Tim Stout :Best thing about saying matter.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Gosh, I just think the history and the the fact that it's at a monastery adds an extra element of contemplation. I could really pray there and I really found God and prayer there.
Tim Stout :And we we could bring we ought to do like a saint man. We ought to do the show from st mattered. That like yeah, no like a like when they have the alumni reunion weekend or something like that. We can all go up there because we're all alumni even you're an alumni. Can alumni. We can go up there and have a have a have a show up there on the
Fr. Linh Nguyen :backs FL Studio up there.
Tim Stout :We're at which building used to at least st bead up there on the top floor. Right. Well, the
Fr. Linh Nguyen :top floor. I don't know what else up there. But it was in
Fr. Danny Taylor :Well, some of the young monks have have a podcast.
Unknown Speaker :Yeah.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Trying to think further. Joel and brother Colby. Yeah. Maybe maybe deacons. Brother Simon right now.
Tim Stout :Yeah. You got this? Yeah, I think he just ordered again, but I
Fr. Danny Taylor :I know that Yeah. When you're a monk. You don't call it Deacon. You don't go by Brother Brother.
Tim Stout :Yeah, he's gonna
Fr. Danny Taylor :be a good one, too. Oh, no, he's awesome.
Tim Stout :Yeah, he was he was in my first weekend class he was in it was creed with Father Dennis. Which was like the best class because the final project for that class. Father, Dennis was going to Rome. So he walked in. And he said, I'm leaving for Rome. Let me do my best father did this impression. I'm leaving for Rome. And I'm not reading your papers. So we're done. But brother Simon was in that class. And just just
Fr. Danny Taylor :super good guy. future future Abbot of st minor and I'm calling it right now. Boom. That's a pretty pretty bold prediction. 2045
Tim Stout :Yeah, with that. So I'll tell you what, next time we'll we'll have you back on the podcast. But we'll come to you next time. You have good internet down there. Yeah, yeah. Well, we'll do is we'll make it efficient, efficient weekend.
Dallas Kelley :Yeah, you go down and fish those ponds. Yeah, no fish in those ponds. I can tell you that right now.
Tim Stout :No, no, no, no, I'm saying it's a builder. We're going to like cover the baby will go down and do some real crappy fishing. Okay.
Dallas Kelley :Did you ever fish the ponds it's a man. Yeah, never did. I fished them. I can't. I caught one fish. Every time
Fr. Linh Nguyen :you talk you fish on the bigger part of the little profile. Let's get
Tim Stout :those fishing report pitchers ready because cuz he really is a fisherman. We'll throw those up and downs tell us about this. We have a little segment we call fish. I mean very much the tail. It's a Taylorsville, like
Dallas Kelley :went to Tuesday with my brother on a new boat. Now this is just a few of the pictures that we had a pretty good day. Cut several big fish.
Unknown Speaker :not sharing at all,
Dallas Kelley :but I don't use it. I'm not I don't like the taste of bass, so I don't keep any bass even if they are keepers. Why don't you get some crappy? Because I do. We just think Krabi Fisher right now. We keep the bass and bring it to me. I brought you fish before
Fr. Linh Nguyen :the show, but I'm in real food here.
Tim Stout :Hey, what's the
Unknown Speaker :I need somebody?
Dallas Kelley :You can't find this fish in pictures. Yeah, that was the biggest one I call was on a man.
Tim Stout :Oh, there you go. Yeah. Well, we're delayed. You're delayed about 20 seconds when you see that? So Oh, yeah. So
Fr. Linh Nguyen :I have a question here for other Taylor. Was there a Danny Taylor, you relate to a Danny Taylor from Lexan Catholic was killed in car wreck. graduate in 1967. Dang, gosh.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Who's gonna ask you that question. But yes, that's my one of my uncles. That was that was my uncle. That's, I guess that's who I'm named after. But I'm also named after my great grandfather, who was also Dan Taylor. But yes, I had an uncle. He was my dad's oldest brother, who died in the car racquet wreck and what year was it? 6767. Okay, you weren't born. It's so random.
Fr. Linh Nguyen :The person said you have a Sam Harris. Sam kind eyes. Oh, wow. Okay. So well. Wow.
Tim Stout :So you never know what kind of questions you're gonna hear.
Fr. Danny Taylor :I want to talk to that person. Maybe they can give me some good stories about a my uncle Uncle Danny.
Tim Stout :Bowflex think correct. Catholic graduates. So
Fr. Danny Taylor :yeah, one of the few well just to mention this where we only have three. This is this is something I want to I want to put out there. We only have three Lexington Catholic grads that are priests in the diocese. We need to get on top of that. I know we need to get on top of that. We did start a they are their father. So myself, right? Actually, this is funny. Father, Father, Danny Taylor, which is me, Father, Danny schwendeman. And then father Danny Pfister, so start recruiting more Danny's only got one more priests but he not formal diocese is a Vandana girl. Yeah, that's right. And then other father bush. I think that was that predates Lexington Catholic, but it was the school that john Curtis. Oh, he went Lexan. Katelyn.
Fr. Linh Nguyen :Oh, sorry. Sorry. More, Kurt. But those old generation Yeah, yeah,
Tim Stout :there might be more than he might have been. JOHN Curtis might have been there when father Bob Abraham was the principal.
Fr. Linh Nguyen :Yes. Let's go away. Oh, no. Before father Bob neighbor now. He father. Curtis, I think he's a classmate of john Carter. From our parish. Oh, my parents. Go ahead as the last principle is Sally Stevens. Steve Stevenson was their classmate.
Unknown Speaker :Well,
Dallas Kelley :yeah, there's several. JOHN Carter's chiming in he says he is akin to Danny Taylor. And, and you just answered that Danny was brother to Mary Jo. plenty of stories. Danny was my best friend in freshman and sophomore years.
Tim Stout :Oh, cool. Are you getting that from john Carter? Yeah. Interesting. See, it's a small world. And
Fr. Danny Taylor :this is what's funny, you know, in families when somebody dies. You know, I have two uncles who died kind of tragically, people don't talk about them, you know, so you don't learn about them? Because I guess it's so painful to bring up right. But I would love to learn about you know, my uncle.
Tim Stout :There you go. Any more questions for father Danny? Y'all got any more questions? No, not
Unknown Speaker :yet.
Tim Stout :All right. Well, we got another segment that we like to do here. This is a saint of the day. According to our Franciscan media, folks. St. Joseph, of Cooper, Cupertino, Cupertino, there's a Cooper that's where Apple's headquarter but I don't think he was from there. Right. st of the day.
Unknown Speaker :This is Franciscan media saint of the day for September 18. Today we celebrate St. Joseph of Cupertino. He has been called the flying friar. But the fact that Joseph of Cupertino could levitate or float in the air during prayer wasn't the most remarkable thing about him. The depth of His Holiness was he entered the conventional Franciscans. And though challenged by his studies, he persisted and was ordained in 1628. Joseph's tendencies to levitate during prayer became something of a cross. Some people came to observe him much as they might go to a circus sideshow. But Joseph's unusual gift led him to be humble, patient and obedient, though at times he was greatly tempted And felt forsaken by God. His fellow Franciscans transferred Joseph several times for his own good and for the good of the rest of the community. He spent some years and out of the way friaries reported to and investigated by the Inquisition. Eventually he was exonerated. Immediately after his death in 1663. miracles were reported at his tomb. Joseph of Cupertino was canonized 100 years later. There's more about the saints along with inspiration and Catholic resources at our website, Saint of the day.org. From Franciscan media. This has been st of the day.
Dallas Kelley :The Flying priest, have you seen the movie? I have not been reluctant St. Ellsworth called it. I've seen the movie probably 20 times. My favorite. Yeah, my favorite Catholic movie. It's a black and white movie really old. It's fantastic. really done really well.
Fr. Danny Taylor :The Ultimate Frisbee causal at St minor. I'll tell you who is named Cupertino. So it's named after him I guess cuz the Frisbee? Yeah.
Dallas Kelley :What was his name? The movie star in the Fantasy Island? Oh, Ricardo multiple. Yeah, he plays it. Really. He's a priest who doesn't believe that he can fly and all that it's pretty good movie
Tim Stout :conventional friar or Franciscan conventional Franciscan
Fr. Linh Nguyen :Angel. There's a lot of things that conventional can't get our Bishop fly. Yeah. Oh, that Tommy flew.
Tim Stout :will have to have him on the show. So I wait till we get a few more episodes underneath our belt. I don't know if I'm ready for Bishop, although bishops in general, although you said you know, you tried to get Bishop Baron. He said no. He said you can still get him. I wrote. I wrote that down. Just so you know, let me
Unknown Speaker :know when we can reach him.
Tim Stout :If that's up to you, I was me. Yeah. She said I'm getting I'll get him.
Fr. Linh Nguyen :I mean, email, his email. You got his email, we'll make it happen. Just make time email, I personal contact. Hey,
Tim Stout :next week. We'll have a guest lined up, but they're probably some half theological topic of some sort. Or maybe there'll be a new guest. It'll pop in I we've got some of that we're working on. You know, we'll, it'll be something like that. Who knows? Just reminder that three weeks ago we had the Ellison's on Dwayne and Chrissy for the Family Foundation. Today is where this weekend is you go zoom in on that. There it is.
Fr. Linh Nguyen :My official metal
Tim Stout :all my it is the Finley five K. Finley five k weekend. So
Fr. Linh Nguyen :Madeline travels with me everywhere I goes.
Tim Stout :So you're getting your five K and through walking? Yes,
Unknown Speaker :swinging.
Tim Stout :You're not running. Okay. Nice. So it is race weekend virtual this year, obviously. So. So if you signed up, you picked up your packet, get out there and get your five k done, post your results, tune in to the Family Foundation Facebook page tomorrow. They're going to be doing stories all day long streaming stories about six families that affect the best SIDS. So it's a great fit. It's a great opportunity to hear those stories that you normally would not hear usually on the race weekend. They have like one I think they're doing eight, eight tomorrow. So tune into that. And if you have not supported the Finley Foundation, you can do so at Finley 105 or Finley 105 dot org. Your money goes to help researching combat SIDS, great calls. Hey, and if you're a follower of St. Mildred church and Somerset, you're watching us or a fan, just a fan of Father, Danny Taylor, just like our page to St. Francis and john. We do a little stuff here. Get father Lynn. So that's all and we got a YouTube page too. So you can like both of them. If and if you're our regular listeners, and those people that are watching on the podcast, make sure you go and look up st Mildred church in Somerset, because probably if you live in Kentucky, you're going to end up down there sometime just if you're visiting like Kaplan, so make sure you'd like those pages too because it's a virtual world and we're Catholic and we're trying to seize, seize, seize the moment seize the days, I guess Lloyd would say right. Now he has
Unknown Speaker :no idea.
Tim Stout :If you just joined Facebook, then you probably not on satellite radio or you
Fr. Danny Taylor :know not okay. So
Tim Stout :anyway. Ss f j.org. That's our site for donations. Anything you can think of right father, weekly tithing? Can we do the annual peel through there as well? I'm pretty sure. So yeah, so annual bill starting up here next week. Yep. So somebody I think, oh, that's akin to my preaching. I almost forgot about that. I get to preach about the annual appeal. Good video this year. Hmm, really all your fellow classmates is featured prominently on there.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Oh, no. Yeah. Mark. Yeah, He's good. He's poetic man. He's like, wow, I wouldn't I wouldn't give money today.
Tim Stout :I watched it this Saturday and I was like, he's got a gift right there. Yeah,
Fr. Danny Taylor :you need to have him on the podcast. He would be a very interesting
Tim Stout :person to have and he's in a he's in the mountains. Right. He's all the way in Ashland.
Fr. Danny Taylor :So that would be kind of hard. But yeah,
Fr. Linh Nguyen :he found Pikeville originally.
Tim Stout :Yeah, that's my family. Just my daughter just moved to Morehead. So who's the pastor in Morehead
Unknown Speaker :tomorrow? I'm
Tim Stout :sure I will meet him. But I haven't met him yet. So anyway, support our ministry here ssF. j.org Hey, most important, tell your friends. Give us a listen. Give us a like, give us a subscribe. all that other stuff. Father, Danny Taylor. Thank you for coming up here. long drive we always like to give Dallas, we always like to give our guests a little something just for coming up here. This will be the last rosary you ever need. It is a rugged rosary. It's made out of paracord.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Can I show you something right now? You got one already? But no, it's
Tim Stout :great. It's great. Which one you got the Lord The Lord is? Look at that. It has that hasn't happened yet. So it's the same one? No, give me back. I got another one at home. I got another one. It's a
Fr. Danny Taylor :different I'm sorry. But I just thought Oh, wow, Providence. And I was praying the rosary on this on the way up. So you go with this. I love this rotary kudos. Great.
Tim Stout :Yeah. I've actually asked him to be a sponsor and they're such they're a family
Fr. Linh Nguyen :rosary. But
Tim Stout :I every time I give you one, you give them one.
Fr. Danny Taylor :You know who gave me this rosary? Actually, that man right there. ordination?
Unknown Speaker :ordination. Yeah, ma'am.
Tim Stout :So that did come through here. This is
Fr. Danny Taylor :the Lord knows what he's doing.
Tim Stout :These that's a family owned business. They during the pandemic, they were sold out of rosaries, which is a great thing. It's an awesome thing. I don't have a graphic for Steve to put up on rugged rosaries up work on that for next week, because I really want to kind of promote them don't get a discount, they we pay for everything that we get. But it's a great family owned business. They do a great job. They make quality products. If you're a knight of Columbus, go check it out because they have a nicer column. Are you not? Yes, yeah. Third Degree, fourth degree with a first degree. Okay, he got some work to do now, but
Fr. Danny Taylor :I was the grand Knight as the deputy grand out of the Council of at the seminary, which I think is illegal. It is.
Tim Stout :That's pretty cool, though. That's pretty good. So we owe you something. He drink bourbon.
Fr. Linh Nguyen :Yeah. Okay.
Tim Stout :We owe you one.
Dallas Kelley :He's appraised if he doesn't drink bourbon. He will.
Tim Stout :Thanks for being on the show. Thanks for driving up. We appreciate where have you back sometime. if that's okay with you. Yeah.
Fr. Danny Taylor :Cool. It's been a pleasure. Awesome. Yeah. It's great to be here.
Tim Stout :So who's up for the blessing,
Fr. Linh Nguyen :but a blessing? Oh, yeah. Father Dan. I think brother Dad, can you give us a pure with oil? Sure. We have to give us a special blessing for
Fr. Danny Taylor :our special gift.
Unknown Speaker :Dane he couldn't go.
Tim Stout :That's right. Yeah.
Fr. Danny Taylor :So now he owns a blessing. Newly ordained but Gosh, I'm trying to remember the blessing that I was supposed to give it the ordination. I was gonna do a simple blessing.
Tim Stout :Oh, that's fine.
Fr. Danny Taylor :All right. You guys ready? Yes, sir. The Lord be with you and spirit now mighty. God bless you, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Go in peace.
Unknown Speaker :Thanks,
Tim Stout :God. Until next week.
Unknown Speaker :I'm still Deacon Tim.
Dallas Kelley :Deacon Dallas, and
Tim Stout :I'm Father Lynn, and your father Danny. Brother, Danny. Good night, everybody. Good night, everybody. Did you ever stop
Unknown Speaker :getting ready.
Unknown Speaker :I don't know a single thing that I haven't
Unknown Speaker :noticed.
Unknown Speaker :When I see you, my heart starts racing. I don't know if I like this, Jason.
Unknown Speaker :It's the same