This is Father Gregory Pine.

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Father Patrick, we began doing Lexios, Lexiones de Vene, however you make

that plural. Who knows? No one knows. It's impossible. There's no way of knowing. Back in the pandemic,

I think, so that it'd be like March of 2000. And here we are in February of 226.

That's what people always say about you, Father Gregory. People say lots of things about me. They say, that guy's really pastoral. They say, where's his hair? They say, what does he mean? They say, does he play basketball? He fasted on a pickle one, then. Yeah, exactly. That bro doesn't eat. If he did eat, all right, keep going. But it is kind of wild. Six years. The liturgical seasons have way of, what's the best way of describing it,

of accommodating the life of our Lord Jesus Christ to us so that we can receive it in time?

And, yeah, we've been priests now for like 10 years we've been Christians now for like 40 years almost

any thoughts as we traverse time and space one thing that is a surprise to me is that I thought

I would get bored of the liturgical seasons you know you think oh as a priest who get used to these

things and you do them over and over again.

But maybe that was because I was kind of a smug and confident altar server, and I was always confused why people didn't know what to do during Holy Week.

It's in the book. Just read the book. Just do what the book says. This isn't hard.

But I thought, oh, that's going to get old after a bit and it doesn't I mean I've had so many

wonderful experiences of the liturgy in different places but it's not just difference I think that

even even if I were stable in the same place that thing new things would be revealed and that's part of

that's part of um you know, what I,

what I wanted to do this Lent in writing, my devotional, which just come out, witness,

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