Welcome to God's Blaining, contemplative preachers, contemporary age.

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

Hello friends and welcome back to God's planning.

I'm your host today.

Well, we sort of had a musing on what it means to host. There are two hosts. We're always co-hosting.

Anyway, my name is Father Patrick Mary Briscoe and I'm joined today by Father Bonaventure Chapman.

How are you, Father Bonaventure? I'm doing great.

Father Patrick, how are you doing?

I'm delighted to be here.

Because I think we've got a really fun topic today.

Yeah.

I think that, so in the summertime, so today's topic is the stars I just got to start with that

today's topic is the stars and why do I want to talk about the stars well because in the summertime

as a child well and still to the present day, in fact, my family vacations on a lake in Northern Indiana, and we've done this for a very long time.

And one of the remarkable parts of being outside away from the city and the summertime is the

clarity that you have of the night sky.

And this is imprinted on me. I mean at other times of the year the night sky is certainly clear but I would always see the night sky clearly in the summertime. I don't know if do you have similar kinds of summertime memories?

I do.

One of the worst parts of living in a city, among the many worst parts,

is that you can't ever see stars.

Like, that's just the North Star, that's it.

But in the summer in Buffalo, obviously Buffalo was, you know, not as an active

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