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Dcerninghearts.com presents Inside the Pages, insights from today's most compelling authors.

I'm your host, Chris McGregor, and I am delighted to be joined once again by Sister Marianne Fetula,

who has served as a professor of theology at Ohio Dominican University.

Sister Marianne is the author of Catherine of Siena's Way, The Holy Spirit, Unbounded Gift of Joy, Thomas Aquinas, Creature and Friend, and Heaven's Splendor.

With Sister Marianne Fittula, we go inside the pages of drawing close to the Holy Spirit, keys to a transformed life and joyful heart.

Published by Sophia Institute Press.

Sister, thank you so much for joining me.

It's a joy and a blessing to be with you, Chris.

I have so loved the work that you've done in the past,

especially your wonderful book on heaven.

I was just thrilled that Sophia Institute Press has published, drawing close to the Holy Spirit,

keys to a transform life, and a joyful heart. And that's, you know, I just think we need more

of that today, don't you? Absolutely. And that's really the whole point of the book that

with my little heaven book, I feel that this is, this little book on the Holy Spirit is actually

a book the Holy Spirit gave to me. It's a humble book. It's a small book. But none of the things

that are said in the Holy, in the heaven book about longing for heaven and

living joyfully here on earth and beginning to live heaven here on earth, none of those

things are possible.

None of that is possible without the Holy Spirit, who really is the giver of joy because he's the person of love. And our life is

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