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

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Welcome to God's explaining.

This is Father Jacob Bertrand Jansick.

Today I am here with Father Gregory Pine.

Father Gregory.

What's up?

Not much.

Well, let's see, I actually have done things that involve me leaving my desk, which is noteworthy, which is remarkable, which is interesting, to use three neutral adjectives. But I went to At a Ray Festival which is like a

National Congress or National Conference of these different charismatic prayer groups for young people throughout Switzerland.

It's yeah it was like a rave. Yeah. Yep. I don't actually know that I recognize the second word that you said but yes

it was definitely like that as well but it was a it

was in this place called Zug which is the German word for train but it was a city

not a train which is misleading and it it was great. So I gave a talk and then

preached at mass. The mass was in German so I didn't con celebrate and I just

celebrated a mass later in a language that I know somewhat better.

But yeah, there are a lot of like really young, excited, devout Catholics there.

And sometimes in the European Church you have the impression that things are kind of tough or the prospects are kind of grim.

So to find like a kind of Swiss catacomb in which the faith was very vibrant for me was super delightful, super energizing.

So I am jazzed about that.

Although jazz I guess would be like a natively American music form,

so maybe that's a bad way to describe my experience.

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