Fr. Augustine and Friends - Guest is William Fritz

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.

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Transcript:
announcement: 0:31

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.

Fr. Augustine: 0:58

Hello again, everyone, and welcome to another episode of father Augustine and friends. As always, thank you for your support for my little show. And for spiritual cards, radio, spirit filled hearts ministry, we hope that you have been enjoying my conversations with friends, collaborators in ministry, as we talked about the Word of God's grace in the lives of the many people that I am blessed to know. And I am so happy and thrilled today to have with me, I guess that I've known since he was like seven years old. And that's been a while. My guest today is Mr. William Fritz, who is the music director here at St. John the Baptist Parish. William, welcome so much. Thank you, Father. Thanks for having me. I have to confess I haven't actually listened to the show yet. Start practice. How many episodes? Well, I don't think a lot. Sure. Yeah, yeah, sure. Yeah. Well, listen to all that's fine. i We know you're very busy. And that is part of our conversation. When you tell us about your story. You are a very busy man. All right. Well, let's begin with the prayer in the name of the Father and of the center of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Heavenly Father, we thank you for the grace of our faith, the grace of this ministry, we thank you for the opportunity that you have given to us to evangelize and to preach the gospel through our words and actions. I asked you to send a special blessing upon William and his family, and upon all those who are listening and supporting spirits with hearts radio, we all do we do continue to be inspired by your grace, and the manifestation of your great love. And we ask this through Christ our Lord, in the name of the Father to the Son of the Holy Spirit. Amen. All right. So to our listeners, as I mentioned, I've known Billy a long time since he was a child. And we're going to go into sort of like the beginnings of our relationship with Him and I and all the fun we've had in the many beautiful spiritual experiences. And let's begin, William, tell us a little bit about yourself as we begin our conversation. Yeah, sure. So like father said, I'm the music director here at St. John Baptist, but I've been a local Orange County boy, my whole life was born Mission Viejo hospital, town. You know, South County, lived in Mission Viejo went to Catholic school, my whole life. Mission San Juan Capistrano go swallows. We went. Then after that I kind of made a big jump to the St. Michael's prep school St. Michael's prep school of the former St. Michael's Abbey right. It's a we're Yeah, we're like vintage now. You are vintage. I still have my tie. Well, good for you. Yeah. Well, I wear it sometimes. Yes, indeed. I