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This is Father Patrick Briscoe.

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Father Patrick, I'm delighted to join you slash come together for this bonus

episode, the occasion of which is felicitous, propitious, delightful, and potentially fruitful.

You've written a book? I have. Nice. And that book is available in bookstores. I don't know

about the first word that occurred to me in that particular instance was Buchladen. It's not clear that I know the word bookladen better than I know the word bookstore. But there are times in my life when the German seems, I don't know, perhaps more fitting. This shouldn't be one of those times, but in fact, it is one of those times. That's great. If there are any German-Dominicans listening, you should just elect Father Gregory to be your provincial. There you go. Why not? Nice, exactly. Don't say that too loud, slash on the air, because one never knows what will happen. Actually, I think the chances that happening are zero, maybe negative zero, in fact. Could they crown you king of Switzerland?

Chances are exceedingly low. I don't know that Switzerland has ever had a king. Switzerland is a loose

confederation, very, very independent people. Yeah, exactly. They love a good vote. They do.

They even elect bishops there still. Some of them do, yeah. But then some of their bishops

prove contrary to their preferences, and then

they kind of gently chase them from their country. It's been known to happen. To sales.

Well, there's that. That was a different problem. He was chased by Protestants, but there are

sometimes Catholic bishops who are chased by Catholics. Oh, neat. Yeah, but this has little to do

with the subject matter of the book that you've written. Let's just start there. What is its name of the book, that is? Suppressed, prepositional phrase. That's great. And what is its content in rough lines, rough outlines, rough contours, content contours? And let's start there. That's great. So over the years, I've gotten to try my hand at a lot of devotional writing.

And I think it's something that I do well.

And I've become very interested in it because...

Just a quick interruption.

Do I recognize your name from the best-selling Spanish devotional?

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