Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I am a Dominican friar of the

province of St Joseph. I teach at the Dominican House of Studies and I work for the

domestic Institute and this is Pines with Aquinas. this episode, I'd like to think about how strictly you should play in your day.

That is to say how meticulously or how carefully you should play in your day.

Which connotes, he used the word connotes. Okay, what I'm trying to say is like how much

ought you to schedule it, how much ought you to expect from yourself and how strict

should you be in adhering to that.

Okay? Because on the one hand, we don't want to be like unambitious

because yeah, you say, I'm just gonna let what happens happen

and then you find at the end of the day that you haven't done anything

But we also don't want to be overly ambitious in the sense that like you plan your day so strictly that it leaves no room for the spontaneity or the community which

ought to be part of it. So yeah let's think about it together here we go.

Okay so I think you know, some of this is going to depend upon your temperament, some it's going to depend upon like your time and place and other circumstances.

Okay, so all that being said, I think that in general it's

good as human beings to be more so concerned about people than about tasks.

Sometimes, you know, people ask me like, what's the best thing that's happened over the course the past month and I'll be like I finished this thing you know or I checked off this item.

That's a little bit tragic because I ought to say something like I spent time with this person or you know I served in this capacity.

And so I think that we always need to recall ourselves to the purpose to the point and what is the purpose?

What is the point point well it's communion

right so father son and holy spirit God is a communion of persons he extends to us

the offer of friendship through our Lord Jesus Christ so as to conduct us into that

communion of persons and it's communion of persons all the way down right so like the way

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