Welcome to Pines with Aquinas episode 10. I'm Matt Frad.

If you could sit down with St Thomas Aquinas over a pint of beer and ask him any one question, what would it be?

Well, in today's episode, St Thomas has actually gone to the bathroom. It had to happen at some point, so I'm not sure what we're going to do.

We'll figure something out.

Welcome to Pines with Aquinas. This is the show where you and I usually would pull up a bar stall next to the angelic doctor to discuss theology and philosophy.

But as I said, since St Thomas has gone to the restroom, we're going to have to do what we can.

Looking across the bar, I spot a fellow who's been listening into our conversation. Father Chris Pichasco.

Get a father.

Hey, how are you Matt?

Very good. Pichasco. Did I get that right?

You got it right.

All right. Awesome. Well, look, you're a big admirer of St Thomas, and so I've asked you to come on the show today, so you and I can speak a little bit about him.

So maybe tell us a little bit about yourself first, and then we'll talk about your love for St Thomas.

Yep, my name is Father Chris, and I belong to London diocese in Canada, Ontario.

I was ordained about four years ago, and I'm 30 years old.

I have always had a love for philosophy, and I started a lot with trying to understand the church's teaching growing up in high school.

And then I got involved with the apologetics and began to discover philosophy, but it wasn't until I entered into the seminary where I was introduced to the philosopher and the theologian, which is Aristotle and St Thomas Aquinas.

And there I found answers began to pour out from the church and from her tradition and from this particular saint.

And I mean, really when I talk about myself, I have to always go back to St Thomas because of how much of the impression he left on you, how much strength you gave me, give me a my feet.

And yeah, I don't know what else to say about me right now, but.

Well, I think a lot of people feel like faith is just something they have to will in themselves, you know, like they'll say, I need to have more faith.

It's just tri harder, but really that's sort of the wrong approach. I mean, it would be like saying get into this car and just will that it will get to wherever Toronto Atlanta, you know, a few hours away, you know.

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