Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I'm a Dominican friar of the province of St.

Joseph and this is Pints of the Quines.

In this episode, I'd like to talk a little bit about sadness.

Why?

Well, because we talk often about joy and happiness, at least we do in Christian conversations.

So you'll hear people quote, John 10-10, I came that they might have life and have it

abundantly.

And then you'll hear them say that Christians ought always to be joyful and or happy depending

on how they define those terms.

And then you might experience some sadness in your life and then be led to ask, does this

mean that I am a bad person or a bad Christian?

Is this something blameworthy or culpable?

What am I to do with my sadness?

Should I banish it or should I reconcile it or how do I go forward?

So I want to address ourselves to these types of questions.

Draw some distinctions so that way we can engage with our lives more fruitfully, more

profitably, and ultimately more happily.

So here we go.

Okay.

So you will have probably heard all of these terms described or defined in a variety of

ways.

So let's say just a brief word about happiness and joy and then go from there to sadness

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