Welcome to God's Blaining, contemplative preachers, contemporary age.

Each week joined the Dominican friars as they consider all things Catholic.

Hello and welcome back to God's planning. I should say welcome to guest

planning because here we are with an extra special guest.

This is the one, the only, Mike Gormley, also known as Gomer.

It is a pleasure to have you on our show, Gomer.

Please say a word of welcome.

Oh, it is good to be here.

Thank you all for inviting me on here.

Father Gregory, I do want to remind you

that I invited you to do a parish mission at my church and you stood me up no hard

feelings but I selflessly come on your show it's fine don't worry about it it's fine it's fine

that's right they say of friendships that they are non-reciprocal and benevolence has only to be one-sided,

so I am happy to have this friendship with you. Who says that? But no one does. I just made that up.

That's for convenience sake. We're not alone here on this call. Those who watch on

YouTube can verify that that is the case. Those who listen will not have known until this moment.

We're also here with Father Jacob Bertrand. How are things?

I'm doing great. I was worried that you were going to forget to introduce me again, but you did it.

So we're making strides. We're learning from our mistakes. It's great I can I can rest assured yeah no it's great so yeah

good to be here thanks for being with us Gomer yeah thanks for having me so

usually we talk about mindless nonsense Thanks for here about the serious business of not wasting someone else's time.

So we value your time and we thank you for sharing it with us. So to set up the topic for today's

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