Welcome to God's Plaining.

Contemplative Preachers, Contemporary Age.

Each week, join the Dominican friars as they consider all things Catholic.

Welcome back to God's planning. I'm Father Gregory Pine joined here by Father Bonaventure

How are things going to Father Bonaventure.

Going great.

Let's see.

We're coming up on the end of your first semester of graduate studies, well I guess of

doctoral studies. That's true.

How are things here in Washington, D.C.

How are things at Catholic U?

Well, I have to say first off that fall has approached and finally came here to D.C.

So I love the fall.

It's my favorite season. So the weather has cooled down. It's able you're able to make that 12 minute track up to the school from Dominican Council studies without breaking too much sweat. So I enjoy the fall and classes yeah set on on papers and just getting used

to the flow of being back on the other side of the lectern so all is good.

So for the past two years you were a teacher and when you're teaching you learn

things in a particular way because you have the anxiety of communicating them to people

and looking like you know stuff and now you're a student again. Is it better, worse, different, all the above?

That's different. Being a teacher makes you a better student, so there's benefits of that but learning in a classroom is so

different than teaching now you only learn best by actually teaching something I

think to be able to explain it and that's always a good you know asking

someone to repeat or explain something one of the students and then they kind of

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