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Yeah, it's really great to have you on the show.

Thanks for coming down.

Are you live in Chicago, I heard, or?

No, I live in Pittsburgh.

Okay.

Yeah.

I miss heard.

Yeah.

So I was living in Italy, actually, and I think it was around 2006, 2007, serving my archdiocese in Indiana, which is a Latin archdioces.

And I was living with Bishop Kurt Burnettett who is now the Bishop of Ruthenian

or Byzantine, Hesai.

I've met him.

Ah, great.

And we started concelebrating together at the Casa Santa Maria and he suggested that with my love

of Eastern Petristics as well as Aquinas, who was translated into Greek after

1354. Successively, there was a series of translations of Aquinas into what we might call

something like classical Greek, and that I should start getting to know the Byzantine right better since all my

sort of student interests and study interests were in there. And eventually he just said,

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