Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to Pines with Aquinas, Matt Fraed here. Two things, maybe three. Yeah, three. Let's say three.

It's really things I want to talk to you about today. The first is my upcoming interview with William Lane Craig.

The interview's already been done. I just interviewed him last week, but it comes out on YouTube this Monday.

Ooh, I'll tell you about that.

I want to tell you about our first ever Pines with Aquinas

retreat and then just some kind of general things on Pines with Aquinas in the transition here.

So hopefully you'll stick with me because this is pretty exciting stuff.

Let's begin with the retreat. We've never had a Pines with Aquinas retreat before.

I have had people reach out to me and ask me to lead pilgrimages, but can I just be honest?

The idea of a pilgrimage stresses me out. I'm not saying that a pilgrimage should be stressful,

but when I think of a pilgrimage, I think of buses and tourists and

I don't know why.

That's why I'm really excited about this retreat. I'm calling this a beer drinking

Bible studying restful retreat and it's going to be in Northsia, Italy.

Now, can I be honest? I don't know if it's pronounced Norte or Norkia.

I'm going to say Northsia. So if I'm wrong, you can and you know that I'm wrong,

you can sit and just judge me quietly. Okay. It's in Northsia, Italy from June 15th to the 26th.

And it's going to be amazing. We only have a few spots left. I promoted it on

Patreon first and a bunch of people have already snagged a spot. Look, here's what I'll do.

I'll tell you about the overview, the litigy and the beer. How about that? So here's the overview.

Basically, we are going to be undertaking a thorough reading of St. John's Gospel and we're going

to be chapters 19 through 17. And we're going to be following St. Thomas's commentary upon the gospel.

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