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.

My name is Father Jacob Bertrand Jansick.

I am the Director of Vocations for the Dominican province of St. Joseph here in Washington,

D.C. and I am joined by Father Bonaventure Chapman.

Say hi Father Bonaventure.

Hello.

We are here in our kind of semi-quarantine existence at the House of Studies

riding out surviving the coronavirus COVID-19. I think like a lot of you out there who are listening life has been kind of turned on its head in the last not even we I mean maybe a week really

the craziness that's started.

Since last weekend, basically, it seemed like everything

started to change rapidly.

And maybe we're settling in now

to some kind of bizarre exile or different existence?

Who knows?

But in any case, we're praying, we're carrying on,

we're offering mass, and that's what we're doing.

So this week in our Back to Basics Lenten episode as we're still, even though we're kind of relegated to our homes, working through Lent together as a church, we thought we would discuss the Mass and the sacrifice of the mass and as Father Bonaventure and I were talking about the episode and getting ready.

We realized that it's a little strange in some ways to talk about the mass when very few people,

it seems like only priests and religious who live in a religious house are able to attend

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