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Godsplaining

Friends with the Long-Dead

Godsplaining

Dominican Friars Province of St. Joseph

Religion & Spirituality

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Does Fr. Bonaventure make Fr. Gregory laugh in this episode of Godsplaining? Yes. Obviously. This week, the friars discuss what friendship is, being 'friends' with authors that are 'long-dead', how Jesus is our best friend, what we can learn from philosophers who have passed on, and more.   Join Fr. Patrick and Fr. Gregory this summer in pilgrimage to ROME! To sign up for updates when more information becomes available, click here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepbiosABohhozuXorNbEjel610HDKtRC0TPwN3yHM6rl41Pg/viewform   For info on the upcoming Young Adult Retreat this spring in Dallas, TX, click here: https://godsplaining.org/closer-to-the-cross-young-adult-retreat/   Subscribe to our channel https://www.youtube.com/c/Godsplaining   Support the Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/godsplaining Shop our NEW merch store: https://godsplaining.org/store/   Shop Books Written by the Friars St. Dominic's Way of Life: https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Dominics-Way-Life-Knowing/dp/1681929392 Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly: https://www.amazon.com/Prudence-Choose-Confidently-Live-Boldly/dp/1681927322/   Connect on Social Media Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/godsplaining/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/godsplaining/ Follow us on X: https://x.com/godsplaining   To learn more about the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.opeast.org To support the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.dominicanfriars.org

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0:00.0

This is Father Gregory Pine.

0:06.8

And this is Father Bonamenture Chapman.

0:08.4

And welcome to Godsplining.

0:09.4

Thanks to all those who support us.

0:11.0

If you enjoy the show, consider making a monthly donation on Patreon.

0:14.5

Be sure to like and subscribe to Godsplending wherever you listen to your podcasts.

0:18.0

Father Bonaventure.

0:19.2

Father Gregory.

0:20.2

So in the lead-up to recording episodes,

0:25.8

that's incoherent. So when we record episodes, there is usually time before we record

0:30.3

episodes when we're not recording episodes. That's how recording works, right? Correct.

0:33.8

We typically pray and we ask the intercession of certain saints. Correct. Now, in your world,

0:39.9

you live with people who may or may not be saints, whether living or dead. So you study people

0:46.0

who, like, you know, might think that God exists and might not think that God exists. You, like,

0:51.7

live in a philosophical world that I think I'm unaccustomed

0:54.3

to even sympathize with. What's that, like, what's that like hanging out with people who don't

0:59.9

believe in God? Yeah. You mean, like, the living people or the dead people? I think we'll get to the

1:04.4

dead people and do course. Well, the living people first. Maybe, yeah. I mean, like, I don't want to, like, call anyone out. No, it's fair enough. Yeah, like potential sources of, yeah, you get it.

1:12.1

No, it's unlikely that anyone going to at the conference as I go to be listening to these sort of podcasts.

1:16.6

Right, yeah.

1:17.2

So it is striking because I, you know, I teach at the Catholic University of America.

1:21.4

School of philosophy is very Catholic, of course. and so there's no, you know, we're all on the same page. But then when I go, like this semester I was out at a bunch of conferences,

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