An advance directive is a legal document written in advance of a serious illness or injury to address your end-of-life medical care and/or your medical care in the event you are temporarily unable to speak for yourself. It is a document created to ensure that you receive the type of medical care you deserve. Executing an advance directive exercises good stewardship over the gift of life. Some time ago, bio-ethicist Deacon Pete Gummere came to our parish to walk us through advance directives and the Church's teaching on them.  He shared the Vermont Catholic Advance Directive, a document that each person can use to craft their own advance directive which conforms to Church teachings and VT state law.  At that time we had problems with the audio on our recording.  Deacon Pete has graciously returned to dialogue with Fr Tim via Zoom for this second presentation.