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Greetings. I'm Jim Finley.

And I'm Kirsten Oates.

Welcome to Turning to the Mystics.

Welcome, everyone, to season 13 of Turning to the Mystics, where we've been turning to to Terez of Lizu and her story of a soul.

And I'm here with Jim, and we're so delighted to be welcoming our special guest, our dear friend

Father Richard Raw, to the podcast.

We're excited to have him here because we know that Therese is one of his favorite and most

influential mystics.

But before we start, for those of you who don't know Richard, he's the founder of the

Centre for Action and Contemplation, he's a Franciscan friar and ecumenical teacher,

and bears witness to the deep wisdom of Christian mysticism and traditions of action and

contemplation. Father Richard teaches how God's grace guides us to our birthright

as beings made of divine love. Richard is the author of lots of books, including the Universal

Christ, The Wisdom Pattern, Just This and one of my favorites falling upward. Well, we're so thrilled to have you with us today

for turning to the mystics, Richard. Welcome. My privilege, thank you. I'm one of my favorite

and most important subjects, Trez. That's why we wanted to have you on this season.

We're excited to be able to learn about that.

I thought we'd start with having Jim just share a little bit about how he approached Torres this season,

so we can all be on the same page with the listeners.

I'd love to hear that.

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