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

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

Hello and welcome back to God's planning.

I'm Father Gregory Pine joined here by Father

Jacob Bertram Jansick. Father Jacob Bertram, how are things? Things are good.

Yeah, life is life carrying on, you know, surviving, all the rest living in the swamp, not part of the swamp.

I don't really have more to say.

Hey, this pleases me. Yeah.

Let's see, we are here between semesters, American semesters, Swiss semesters.

I guess semesters matter for you insofar as vocation events are typically done on a

semester schedule.

Semesters matter for me because people think that I take classes and so they ask me questions as if I did take classes.

For those who I deem to be too disappointed at the recognition that I don't take classes,

I just never kind of correct their assumption.

But for those who can handle the revelation, I do reveal to them the fact that I have zero classes in graduate school.

And when they think that I'm cheating

or that I'm obtaining a degree of a lesser dignity,

at that point I do give up.

So semesters are a thing that applied to neither of us very much anymore at this time in our lives,

but I just thought that I would highlight the fact that we are in between semesters, which don't matter for us.

Also because whenever I have the opportunity to say weird things,

which will incur the scorn and critique of Father Jacob Birch and I take those opportunities,

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