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Godsplaining

The Four Loves

Godsplaining

Dominican Friars Province of St. Joseph

Religion & Spirituality

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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On this episode of Godsplaining, Fr. Patrick and Fr. Bonaventure discuss C.S. Lewis', "The Four Loves". The friars delve into the philosophy of those four loves: affection, friendship, romance, and charity.  Buy, "The Four Loves", here:shorturl.at/vihtB  Send your questions for the friars to:[email protected]   Subscribe to our channelhttps://www.youtube.com/c/Godsplaining Support the Podcast     Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/godsplaining Shop our NEW merch store: https://godsplaining.org/store/ Shop Books Written by the FriarsSt. 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 Patrick Briscoe.

0:07.0

This is Father Bonameter Chapman.

0:09.0

Welcome to Godsplining.

0:10.0

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0:11.0

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0:15.0

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0:20.0

Well, Father Bonaventure, here we are in October. and subscribe to God's explaining wherever you listen to your podcast.

0:27.7

Well, Father Bad Adventure, here we are in October, thinking about the four loves.

0:32.4

It's kind of, you know, it's got a fall sensibility, I would say.

0:33.8

There's that silly day, right?

0:34.7

Isn't it sweetness day?

1:10.9

So Valentine's Day is in February, and that was added at some point. But then I remember, I don't know if people still have this, but there was the sweetest day, sweetness day or something. Sweetness Day. Yeah, it was like an October version of Valentine's Day. I know it was just a gimmick in a Pox Americana, like to sell more things and sell like candies, but it was like the kind of six-month or halfway or whatever at point. I don't think it took off, but I remember at some point that this was another day that was added to the kind of commercial calendar. Maybe people in the comments will say, oh yeah, I still practiced that. It didn't take off. Yes. Yeah, drop in a note if you know what this is.

1:11.1

Yeah.

1:29.5

Yeah, yeah. Might have I'm just making it up, but... I think the thing that comes to my mind, when I'm thinking October and love would be homecoming. Like, aren't there aren't homecoming dances in October? This is about right. Yeah. It's more of a September thing. No, that's probably right. Yeah, I think it's October. It feels like October. Yeah, because, yeah, it's before Halloween, I suppose.

1:40.9

But Homecoming is usually at the end of the football, kind of football season, in high school, which is probably about this time. I don't know. But that seems right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, from the biggest in my recollection, yeah. Yeah, exactly. I'm yeah. Yeah.

1:41.9

I mean, I went to a ball boy school.

1:43.1

You get into the postseason in November.

1:43.8

Yeah, we didn't do this kind of stuff.

1:45.3

Wait, did you have dances?

1:47.6

It was really awkward because it was all men. Yes, no, we did. We did have dances. We bust in, we bust in people. I think we had dances. I don't know. Did you, what did you do? You had musicals. We did have musicals, yeah. Were they just, was it just like old Shakespeare? Yeah, exactly. No, we had, no, there were girls. No, there were girls from the, from the, the sister schools. So St. Joe's had some sister schools and, Mount St. Mary's. Okay. So there was a girls school.

2:20.2

There were a couple girls. And they participated in the theater thing.

2:24.0

And ski club. And ski club. Yeah. You go ski club is a chance where you got to like go out,

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