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. You are joined today by, well me,

the head God's planer for this episode,

Father Patrick Briska,

and I am accompanied today

by another God's planer, Father Jacob Bertrand.

Jansik, hello, Father.

Hi, I don't know if I'm a God's planer.

I don't know if I like that, but.

God's planers, it's the noun of God's planing.

I understand the grammar but said gerund so it's also technically a noun, but. Yes.

That's okay.

We'll just move on from Jaren's and talk about something other than grammar.

That's maybe a little bit more within our wheelhouse.

Today's episode, I, you know, we want to get it something a kind of cultural phenomenon

now being from New England yourself Father Jacob Burton you enjoy the crisp delights of fall.

What was your sense of, what was your sense of Halloween as a kid?

How big of a holiday was it for you all growing up?

Hmm, I think it was just as big as anywhere anywhere else. I mean, we got dressed up and trick or treated. Usually we went to my grandfathers, my mother's father's neighborhood where the house where my mom grew up because they lived it wasn't a cul-de-sac but it was like a very big like kind of circle loop type thing you know so you drove down the street and then there was a big circle and it was like super not like I was going to say safe as far as like traffic there was like no traffic in the neighborhood and like every house was like decorated in a lot of people went

trick-or-treating there so it's a big like you know everybody was giving out candy you could go to every

house in the circle you came back with a ton of candy. So it was just like that's, you know, kids running across back and forth

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