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

In this episode, I'd like to talk a little bit about the Declaration Faducia Supplicans, which as you know, was recently promulgated by the

Dacastory for the doctrine of the faith, a document concerning the pastoral meaning of

blessings. So it's created a lot of conversation in

Catholic circles. Some people are bewildered by it and some people are excited

about it and but there's been yeah a lot of back and forth often of a polemical or controversial sort.

So I thought that we could just take the opportunity to read some key points from the document,

to interpret them, to try to do so you know in good faith and

then to make efforts at a reception of the text while raising certain perhaps

concerns or questions as to like difficulties that arise in our

interpreting and receiving of the text. So yeah this is going to be difficult, but hopefully we can do so with patience and we'll see what comes with it. Here we go.

All right, I feel prompted insofar as it's a controversial issue just to say a little prayer at the outset so to ask that God would open our minds and hearts so as to

receive his saving truth.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.

Grantus Grace and merciful God to desire ardently all that is pleasing to thee,

to examine it prudently, to acknowledge it truthfully,

and to accomplish it perfectly, for the praise and glory of thy name who live and reign forever

and ever, amen.

Our Lady's seat of wisdom, pray for us. St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us.

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen.

Okay, so my reading of this text is a kind of modest effort insofar as I don't have like inside

knowledge. I don't know the process that went into the drafting of the text, nor was I privy

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