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 Blaining. My name is Father Bonaventure and I am joined by Father Patrick Mary Brisco, who is a teacher at Providence College and also a

Procule Vicar at St. Pius the 5th and I'm here doing studies at Washington, DC.

So Father Patrick, welcome to the show.

Oh, great to be with you, Father Botaventure.

So what is going on, Father Patrick, if you want to just fill in people for a little bit about

what is going on?

You're a busy man with both Providence College and with St. Pius the Fifth, so is there anything

particularly coming up?

It's kind of mid-year for the students.

Yeah, exactly.

They're starting to heal the burn.

Everyone's feeling a little bit, you know, disappointed,

and disheartened.

Yeah, because Christmas is gone on

and Easter is too far away and

Definitely really too far away. Okay the nine months of February have absolutely set in

Excellent. They're all present. They're realizing that they have to try in class, you know, they're bitter about assessment. Yeah, and papers are going to be coming at some point, probably not for a little bit of time, but there's just a word about that.

So it's not always the most exciting time

of the semester for people or the time of the year as well.

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