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.

My name is Father Patrick Briscoe and I'm joined today by Father Gregory Pine. You've heard of Father Gregory.

He is my friend which is nice I think well I shouldn't speak for him. Thank you. Are you my

friend Father Gregory?

I would say so. Yeah, see, you heard it.

It's public now.

We can hold him to that later.

We can make him acknowledge me.

Yeah, I don't have Facebook, so the opportunities that I have for publicly acknowledging our friendship are fewer than as is ordinary in this present evil age

But I will do that. Yeah, I will affirm that. Yeah. All right. Well, see, I'm being thank you for your affirmation.

I'm feeling better already.

Today, our episode, this episode of our Back to Basics

Lenten series is on Friendship. Now friendship might not seem like the most immediate or relevant

topic in a Lenton series. So Father Gregory why did we choose to talk about friendship today?

That, my friend, is an excellent question.

So when folks will ask like, how do I live well or how do I love the Lord? I think there are certain things to which we can point as, let's see,

conducive to a healthy relationship or as, you know like perfecting the the individual or as

cultivating holiness wherever you want to put it and those things are the things that we

focused on or have continued to focus on over the course of the past couple

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