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 Planning for the Gregory. What's going on?

Let's see, not much is going on.

We're rocking and rolling here at the end of summer,

getting back into the swing of the academic year.

I'm beginning graduate studies.

Good? Yep. I'm enrolled at studies. Good?

Yep.

I'm enrolled at the University of Freiburg, which is in Switzerland.

Yes, you've been going there at some point maybe.

That's right.

We'll see.

So the hope is that I get there soon, but it's dependent upon the visa situation, which is, you know, promising, but just slow.

So I will begin or I have begun working on my dissertation, but in my bedroom in Washington, D.C.

So it's like being in Switzerland except it's different.

And then summer travels, did you get vacation at all or did you just take quarantine for a bit?

Let's see. So I went to Colorado with Father Jacob Bertrand. We went to focus summer projects.

And well, it's this thing where Focus has a bunch of students and those students all work at the

YMCA of the Rockies and other Estes Park or in Granby, Colorado at Snow Mountain Ranch.

And then when they're not working, they're going on trips, excursions, and they have

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