Welcome to God's Plaining.

Contemplative Preachers, Contemporary Age.

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

Welcome to God's explaining.

I'm Father Gregory Pine and I'm joined here by Father Jacob Bertrand Jansick.

How we doing Father Jacob?

I'm doing well.

Thanks, how are you?

I'm doing well.

We're here at the beginning of the spring semester and we are gearing up tomorrow for the March for Life.

So as we speak or as you listen, students and parishioners and folks from all over the

states and some beyond are descending on Washington DC. and

Prits and Prits and Pristioners and folks from all over the States and some beyond are descending on Washington DC to take part in the March for life in commemoration or I guess as a kind of anti-commemoration I suppose of the Roe v. Wade decision and I suppose I mean it's a big it's a big moment for the American church

it's it's kind of a huge reunion but also a celebration of life. So anything in particular you're looking forward to this weekend, people coming through.

Yeah, getting to see people, getting to chat with people. Hopefully the weather is not awful because it seems like the whatever

eight or nine marches that I've been to the weather is either

Uber muddy and wet and you're kind of like sloshing through that or it's frigid and cold and snowy. So here's hoping.

Yeah. Yeah, it's always a decision to make what shoes you'll wear.

If it's a very serious fashion decision because you've got your nice black shoes, you know, because everyone out here has only black shoes or, you know, hiking boots.

You got your black shoes, but those are your everyday shoes, and if they get devastated by mud on the

National Mall the chances that you bounce back looking good tomorrow are it's not happening

yeah it's pretty low and then the white socks I mean that soaks oh yeah and then you and

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