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

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

Hello and welcome to God's blending. I'm Father Gregory Pine and I'm joined here by Father Bonaventure

Chapman. We did something

strange actually at the beginning of this episode. This actually isn't the

strict speaking beginning of this episode because I tried to start

the episode and I just failed miserably I was trying to speak and then I and I wasn't speaking I was saying other things that don't qualify as speech and that's kind of amazing you're probably thinking because you've heard many God's planning introductions which barely qualify as speech.

So that should give you some indication as to how very awful was the lead in to this episode.

So that should portend well for all that follows. So that's just a way of saying buckle up get ready things are about to get wild

Father Bonaventure. How are you doing? I thought you had a stroke

You kind of froze I didn't know what happened and so I was worried and we're a certain distance away from each other. I didn't know if I could make in time and also do the episode. But I'm glad to see that you did not have a stroke and that you were fine and the episode rolls on and so

Considering that I'm doing great like things are fantastic no one has stroked out at least on this part of the camera

Yeah, usually like you get through the first 45 seconds of an episode and you're like, man, I've made,

you know, five mistakes or things that could qualify as mistakes.

That's like one mistake per nine seconds, but, you know, send it on down the line.

But the mistake density of the first minute of our first attempt at this episode was so dense, or at least it felt that way to me I just couldn't

abide it and I figured you know we're gonna lose a minute of footage but it's better

sometimes to lose yeah it's just better.

That's, then we are, yeah, or maybe we just set the bar real high for this episode.

So apologies for everyone in advance.

Yet, I think it'll, I think it'll be good.

It's a topic that we're both excited about talking about,

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