was really incredible, and it was nice to see everybody, together. It's just mind-boggling to think of all these people every night, in this town doing that procession and just giving glory to God all the time. Last night at the procession, I just felt – it was a warm feeling. I felt very moved because we just were in Times Square, not too long ago, and when you look at what's the center of Times Square and what's the center of New York. It's just all glitz and glamour. And here, the whole village, the whole town is just centered around giving glory to God and Mary and Mary's intercession. And every night, they have a procession like this

When you stop to think, like at a rock concert, if I'd been to a rock concert, or even anywhere in the hustle and bustle of every day, people are pushing each other. And people are in a hurry and sometimes rude. That last night, even though everybody was packed together, and there were a lovesick people and other people in wheelchairs, people didn't – it was peaceful. Everybody was peaceful, and everybody just got along fine, and everybody was just praying and happy in giving glory to God. And it's very nice. It was very nice and very moving.

Waking up this morning was no problem. In my job, everything is stressful sometimes, and when I look forward to the day's tasks ahead, sometimes it keeps me to at night, and sometimes just the overall stress of that situation makes me want to sleep in. But even though I had to wake up very early this morning, I was at peace last night when I went to bed, and I was at peace when I woke up this morning, and I'm really not tired at all despite the jet lag.

Here, it's very absent of stress. At Lourdes, how can you not be peaceful? And it does, it produces a very warm feeling of happiness. It's very easy to be a good Catholic and good Christian here. I'm surrounded in a place that – I mean, if you just look, it's just thousands and thousands of people coming here, traveling here just to give glory to God – all believers. I was a group of very good Christian's for all providing a great example to each other, and it's easy. It's easy to be at peace. It's easy to be secure in your faith.

Peace is very important to me, and it's something in my life or I do have to – I would say I have to struggle, at times, to be peaceful. And for me, being peaceful is just being close to God. And there are times in my life where I let everything else creep in, and I get further away from God. And as you're kind of immersed more and more in sin, you get that lack of peace. And what I really striving for. Right now, it's easy. I have it. I'm surrounded by great Christians in a very holy place.

Creeping is a very interesting word to describe sin and how sin can enter into your life. And in fact, it's one of those things we could make the analogy, if not moving forward, you moving backwards. And as I'm on my spiritual journey, that's what it's like. You just can't say, "I'm going to put my spiritual life on hold and worry about my career," and then expect to go back three months later in the up the same place where you were. So those times –. For instance, a bodybuilder couldn't say, "I'm going to put my physique on hold, and I'm not go to the gym for three months will work in something else," and go back three months later than expected being the same shape that he or she was in before.

Same thing with your spiritual life. In those times when I really find that I struggle and speaking to God isn't in the forefront of my life and I worry too much about other things, sin tends to creep into my life without union doing. So for me, the answer is just really trying to stay close to God.

My job is a pharmaceutical sales representative, and what I basically do is I go from – I'm responsible for a few products. And I go from doctors office to doctors office and convince the doctors that are medicines are good for their patience and try to convince them to prescribe our medicines further patience. And it also involves some entertaining at night we will take the physicians out to dinner, or we'll bring lunch in for the office and things like that.

And I have a car. I have a company car, and I have a laptop computer, and basically, I bring my samples into the office, and sometimes, I can sit down and have a great tenant conversation about my medicine with them. And sometimes, I'm stopping them in the hall between patients

Well, it's a type of job where there's always more you can do. I feel like I'm very driven. And I feel like my parents gave me a strong work ethic, and I know what it wants to to get ahead, to get ahead in my job and to achieve personal achievements. You know, I think God calls us to do our best and put in a hard day's work and work to the best of our ability. And I feel good doing that, but it's one of those things. I can sit there and analyze on an Excel spreadsheet for hours after work, or I can just make something so perfect. It's a type of job where there's always more you can do, and there are pressures from work, too, to do your best. And when my superiors that I'm a hard worker, obviously, they're going to give me more responsibility. And with more responsibility, it's up to me to create that balance, and sometimes they do good job, and sometimes I don't.

Professionally, I think I would like to eventually become a manager. I think that's where God is leading the, but I don't know. I try and stay open. I manager just ask me, "What do you want to do, not the next job, but three jobs from now?" And honestly, I couldn't answer him because I don't know where God is leaving me. I really trying stay open to God's call us and to God's calling for my life. And right now, He seems to be affirming what I'm doing. Even though I'm stressful at times, everything has worked very well in my job and in my career, and it just seems like God is affirming that this is whereas most of the right now in my life. Now, if I maintain a close relationship with Him and really answer his call and it's something else, I need to be prepared to do that. So I am. I am. Right now, I'm free and everything's working well. But maybe ten years to the road, God's going to have a different calling for me. You never know.

So as we celebrate this Eucharist and put ourselves in perspective with the realities around us….we’re reminded that Christ is pulling us to heroism and courage.