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.

My name is Father Patrick Mary Brisco and I'm joined today by Father Joseph Anthony Cress.

Now you might think if you're looking at us on YouTube that you join the wrong podcast

because we have decent setups but rest assured dear viewer if you're seeing

this listeners you haven't noticed a difference but rest assured dear

viewer you are in fact watching God's planning. Father Joseph Anthony how are you?

Very very bearded right now it's been a while since I've like trimmed up my beard but like yeah it's great as I was kind of mentioning

before we start recording I got a little bit of a retreat hangover going on right now

most people would call these things like retreat highs. We just took our

students on our fall retreat. So we're recording this immediately after that we just

took our students on the fall retreat. It was amazing. We did a theology, the body

retreat kind of digging into our humanity, understanding how we are, you know, creating the image of

likeness of God, incarnate, and what all that stuff looks like amazing

when you go on a retreat at the end you get that retreat high you're like carry me into new lands

and it's beautiful I think when you give a retreat or you lead a retreat,

it's more like a retreat hangover. Like you're just exhausted. It's gassed, to be honest. So that's where I am right now.

But Jesus is doing big things among our students

and beautiful, so I'm excited.

I think that's how moms and dads feel

at the end of vacation, right?

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