This is Father Gregory Pine.

And I'm Father Joseph Anthony Kress.

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listen to your podcasts. All right, Father Joseph Anthony, you are the chaplain at the University of Virginia with

Assignation at the parish of St Thomas Aquinas.

That's right, that's right.

In Charlottesville, and you're gearing up for a new school year or you're kind of swinging into a new school year.

We're in it by this point.

And you have plans, hopes, dreams, other things that you're particularly pumped for, things that you're looking

forward to?

Yeah, so at this point of the year, it's everything's jumping off.

Like September is our focus is on Bible studies.

So meeting new students over the first few weeks and then getting those students into our Bible studies, our small groups.

That's our big kind of September push. We'll have a retreat, or fall retreats in October,

so we'll hit that a little later in September and things like that.

But yeah, at this point of the semester, like our big push is to meet students, reach them, but also get them into our Bible studies because that'll be the main kind of contact point for the semester.

Like we we've really built our ministry as a relational ministry in the two major relationships

are a relationship with God and a relationship with the neighbor.

So relationship God takes place mostly in the sacraments and we have an abundance of sacraments

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