Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine, and I'm a Dominican friar of the province of

St. Joseph, and this is Pines of the Quines.

In this episode, I'd like to talk about grace, specifically because grace is just the

substance of Christian perfection, or grace is our sharing in the divine life itself.

And so we're inclined to talk about subjects that might seem a little more exciting at

the outset, like, what can angels do and how might demons be involved?

Like, what to say about this contemporary issue that might have us frustrated or otherwise

angered.

But I think that it's important that we return to the bread and butter, Christian themes,

and so far as our own spiritual lives, you know, ride on the backs of just like themes.

So yeah, let's get into it.

Talk a little bit about the grace.

Okay, the word grace, or at least the word grace in St. Thomas Aquinas' Latin Grazia,

had three main senses, or has three main senses.

So first, there's the sense that it's free, and you can think here of the word gratis.

That is to say it's given without cost, or it's given without counting the cost.

And then this leads us into the second description, which would be of a gift, okay?

And you can think here of, you know, like, graciousness.

We would consider those persons gracious who bestow the gift of their presence upon us.

And then we could also think about it as thanks, you know, when you pray grace, you say

a prayer of thanksgiving, also of blessing over the meal.

So there's this, yeah, threefold sense to grace, namely that it's freely given, that

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