Lectio: Fourth Sunday of Advent

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Dominican Friars Province of St. Joseph

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🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Fr. Bonaventure and Fr. Joseph-Anthony discuss the readings for the fourth week of Advent, 2025, honing in on God's promise, Paul being set a part, the birth of Jesus from Joseph's point of view, and the virtue of confident, silent hope. Send your questions for the friars to:godsplaining@opeast.org Subscribe to our channelhttps://www.youtube.com/c/Godsplaining Support the Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/godsplaining Shop our merch store: https://godsplaining.org/store/ Shop Books Written by the FriarsYour Eucharistic Identity: https://ignatius.com/your-eucharistic-identity-yeip/St. Dominic's Way of Life: https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Dominics-Way-Life-Knowing/dp/1681929392Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly: https://www.amazon.com/Prudence-Choose-Confidently-Live-Boldly/dp/1681927322/ Connect on Social MediaFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/godsplaining/Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/godsplaining/Follow us on X: https://x.com/godsplaining To learn more about the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.opeast.orgTo support the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.dominicanfriars.org

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0:00.0	This is Father Joseph Anthony Kress.
0:07.2	And this is Father Bonamenture Chapman.
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0:38.0	engagement and comments on those. So please keep those coming. All right, Father Bonaventure,
0:43.0	we have a Lexio episode. Fourth Sunday. For Sunday. Here it comes. Christmas is just around
0:48.3	the corner. Batting cleanup in the Advent cycle. If we want to use that baseball analogy.
0:53.0	Backbenchers, we'll take it.
0:54.7	Yeah, exactly.
0:55.9	It's what we do best. But we've been through an event. We're kind of closing in on the big day itself. I love this. I love everything about, yeah, I'm a big Christmas guy. Do you go to, so when you see, because I'm tempted by these things, Okay.
1:08.8	When I see a Christmas Village shop, we're an all around 24-hour, you know, 24, not 24-hour hour, all day, like 36, 5 days a year. Yeah. Christmas shop. Like, I'm excited about those. I'm glad they exist. I've never pulled off and gone into one, but you're a Christmas man. Have you ever, because you love Christmas, pulled off the road or just, or in a mall and gone in one? Yeah. Okay. Absolutely. I thought that might be the case. Also, did you just refer to as 365 instead of 365? I didn't see 365. Sorry, I had to like, you know, you're just classes, you get tired. It still works though. It sounded. As I was going along, it's like when you're saying a prayer sometime, you're like,
1:45.4	that's something we're not quite right there, but it's still, yeah, 365. 365. I mean, it works. I love that. 24-7, 36-5. I like that. Yeah, there we go. Folks, new slogan. Do I go to the 365 Christmas shops? Yes, absolutely I do.
2:00.1	Yeah.
2:00.7	Okay.
2:01.0	I think they're kind of fun and joyful.
2:03.2	They are.
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