This is Father Bonaventure Chapman. And welcome to God's Blaining.

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Be sure to like and subscribe to God's Bla explaining wherever you listen to your podcasts. Father Monaventure and I are very pleased for this guest planning episode to welcome

Monsignor Stephen Rosetti. So Monsignor Rosetti, thanks so much for joining us today.

It's a pleasure to be with you both.

All right.

Monsignor Rosetti, most of our listeners

will be familiar with you and with your work

insofar as it is, yeah, it's present in many different Catholic media outlets, but would you just introduce

who you are, where you're from, the things that you're working on presently and where people

might encounter your work?

Well, I'm a priest of the diocese of Syracuse, New York. I've been teaching at Catholic University of America for a number of years. I'm a licensed psychologist. But also, I'm an also an exorcist and been so in the

R. S. of Washington for about 13 or 14 years. So I know something about

exercises as well as clinical work and also pastoral theology.

Wonderful. All right, well we thought that for this conversation we could focus a little bit on the ordinary spiritual combat that we as Catholics or Christians more broadly can undertake.

So the way in which we can do it deliberately and intentionally without becoming obsessed by it or thrown for a loop.

So maybe just to set it up, just thinking about the supernatural and the predator natural, obviously, you know, we're trying to think about God and to live our contemplative lives.

But how much should or how much ought an ordinary Christian to think about other things, right?

I know on October 2nd,

we're all reminded to think about our guardian angels,

and when we do so, we're reminded the fact

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