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'm Father Gregory Pine.

I am joining you from Freiburg, Switzerland and I'm here

with Father Jacob Bertram Jansick, co-host. How are thanks, Father Jacob Bertrand?

Things are great. I am in DC, like always usual sitting here gearing up for the year

vocation stuff it's great humid hot sweaty I don't know if the AC a track one of the

great things about the house is like this is nothing to do what we're talking about but I'm going to still complain to you.

One of the great things about the House of Studies is that the HVac units hardly ever work so I'm like sitting in my office

sweat in DC summer it's beautiful. It great just baby nice and I'm sitting in three and a half

heat of snow because that's how Switzerland works perfect also father Jacob Bertman should be applauded.

So if you have the opportunity while listening to this episode, please applaud because I

messed up the internet three times before starting this episode correctly, so he has been long

suffering. And so as another person who is

also joining us who is Father Mark Mary Ames, a Franciscan friar of the renewal.

Father Mark Mary, it's a pleasure to have you on our show.

Hey guys, it's great to be with you and glad, God keep the internet worked out.

As am I.

Now Father Mark Mary, I'm sure many sure many of our listeners know you and have heard the things that you do with Ascension presents and are very grateful for it. So that's awesome. Thank you. But for our listeners who don't know you, would you just maybe introduce yourself and who you are, where you're from, what you do?

Sure, yeah, I'm a member of the Franciscan friars of the R's, often known as the CFRs. I live out in Harlem, New York, and I live with our new men, like our

Pashions, so one of our formation houses, and then I work within the communications

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