This is Father Bonameter Chapman.

And this is Father Patrick Briscoe.

And welcome to Godsplaining.

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Father Patrick, how are you?

I am all the better for being in studio with you.

Oh, that's great. Love it. Love it. Okay. Before we get to what's we calling remote banter and then proximate banter,

I'm going to do an ad read because it's about the

Bible and I love the Bible. We did a Bible episode, remember? We did that. And your thing was, I still cracks me up when you're a little intro to that like, do you have a Bible? Do you know how to read? Oh, look at that, folks. Look at that. Here we go. We've got an ad read though. So this is for a Bible study.

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So that's the alma mater of a few of the godspointers.

And Dr. Shane Owens, not Franciscan University, is the author of the excellent new book,

Returning to the Heart, the Biblical Spirituality of St. Augustine's Confessions.

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