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We begin this class with a little illustrative story.

In it, there's a new priest and he is concerned about his way of listening to confessions.

And he wants an older priest to sit in and listen a little so he can give him some feedback.

So after a few confessions, a confession, the older priest asked him to come out of the

confessional to give him some feedback.

And he said, why don't you try this?

First, cross your arms over your chest.

He says, and rub your chin with one hand.

I does this, so he's copying him.

Because now say things like, I see, yes, go on.

And how did that feel?

Young priest does that.

And then the old priest says, now, don't you think that's a little bit better than

since slapping your knee and saying, no kidding, what happened next?

Actually, I think the way the young priest was doing it actually sounds better.

So it's fine and what it points to is how integral listening is, how we listen to pretty

much everything that happens in our life.

It's the listening, the inward listening that's so necessary if we're going to be intimate

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