Well, thank you everybody for joining us.

I'm Father Chris Alar here at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy,

and it's great to be back and continuing our Explain in the Faith series.

We have a special episode for you today, one that has been asked of us for coming up on three years,

and I was finally able to talk with my great seminarian friend

who attended seminary with me. You always hear me talk about seminary, and that's Daniel O'Connor.

I'm going to today give a brief overview and then turn it over to him about the topic of divine will,

and then we're going to come back up together, because I got

a lot of concerns for him to be able to answer. A lot of questions that we should be asking.

And Daniel's been kind enough to join us today to be able to help us sort through the divine

will. Is it accepted by the church?

Is it promoted by the church?

Is it to go against the church teaching?

What do you need to know?

So let us begin in the name of the Father

and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Heavenly Father, we ask you

send the Holy Spirit down upon us

to open our minds and hearts, to always receive the grace to do your will.

We ask not only to do your will, but to live in your will.

And we ask all this through the intercession of our blessed Mother Mary

and through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

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