Fr. Augustine and Friends - William Fritz Pt. 2 (Seminary Life)

Fr Augustine Puchner is pastor of St. John the Baptist Church in Costa Mesa, California.  He is originally from Wisconsin, and is a member of the Norbertine Fathers.  William “Billy” Fritz is music director at St. John the Baptist Parish.  William grew up in Orange County, California and attended Catholic schools, including St. Michael’s Prep School in Silverado. In this episode he shares is days as a seminarian at Saint Michael's Abbey

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Welcome to Father Augustine and friend's father Augustine partner is a Norbertine priest and is the new host for Spirit filled radio. Each week, Father invites his friends in ministry to sit down and have a discussion about all things Catholic, expect to always feel part of the conversation as we dive in and explore our love of the faith. Here's father Augustine.

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Hello again, everyone. Welcome to another episode of father Augustine and friends. Thank you as always, for your support for our ministry. I am continuing my conversation with Mr. William Fritz, who I do call billing, because I've known him for 30 years. And we had a wonderful conversation last time in regard to Billy's childhood and his first coming to the abbey as a summer camper. And thank you for sharing those beautiful stories. I was there for you in crisis. Yes, I like that I was there for you in crisis. And then the prep school years, Philly attended St. Michael's prep for his high school years. And today after we pray, we're going to continue on his beautiful story, the work of God's grace in this young man's life and our friendship and our collaboration and ministry. Because as I mentioned before, he is now an employee of mine, as well as a friend. He works here at St. John the Baptist Parish as our music Minister, the director of our music ministry, which is just amazing. And in multi languages. Let us pray in the name of the Father to the Son of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Heavenly Father, we thank you for the gift of this ministry. We thank you for the gift of the opportunity to spread the good word through our words and actions, the word of life, the word of truth, the word of salvation, and Jesus Christ. Bless our time together today. Bless Billy and his family and all those who are listening, may all that we do and continue to be inspired by our love for the truth, our love for everything that is good and beautiful, our love for our Catholic faith. And we ask all this through Christ our Lord. Amen. In the name of the Father to the Son of the Holy Spirit. Amen. All right, Billy, welcome back. Thank you for all right. So we Yes, we had so much fun talking about, well, the early years. And now, for our listeners, we're going to continue on in our conversation because as I said, I've known Billy a long time. And we we've got 1000s of stories to tell, and all very spiritual and very beautiful. Alright, so we got through the summer camp experience, elementary school at the mission. Yes. And then it was wonderful high school years at St. Michael's crap. And you do have yet some amazing stories. And we talked about the relationship with Norbert teens, obviously, very close, your dear parents in their great support for the community, and the friendships I have with the whole family. I mean, that's what we'll get to that part part of the story as we continue on. So Billy, welcome back and tell our listeners tell us entering St. Michael's as a seminary entering St. Michael's Abbey, to study for the