Hello, I'm Father Gregory Pine coming at you from Freeberg Switzerland. I am here in my let's see

this my third week back to Switzerland plug in away on the third chapter of my dissertation.

I skipped the first chapter so don't congratulate me too much. I've only actually finished one.

And I'm thinking now presently about divine exemplarity specifically in terms of how creation

is modeled on God and the ideas that God has of distinct concrete particular individual things.

And it's beautiful to say a big study, although sometimes I feel tired and distracted but alas,

such as the case with all human endeavors and so far as we are weak and yet still on the way.

So yeah, we've got our community retreat this weekend and we're having a

session from a nearby Abbey, preach the retreat. So looking forward to that. There are two

Sustertion Abbey's here in Freeberg. There's one for the women which is called the Meg-Rosje

and then there's one for the men which is called Oat-Rive. Actually the men's monastery is maybe

like an hour's walk away so this past Sunday I walked up there to join them for benediction

and festers and then walked back which was great. It was actually really wonderful. And yeah,

so that's where I am, that's who I am, that's what I'm doing. And things are going well.

So for this year episode we're going to talk about the Rosary. Obviously the Rosary is one of the

more famous of Catholic devotions and it's one that many of us pray and perhaps we don't need

reasons to pray it. Perhaps the question itself is a little bit melodramatic why pray the Rosary.

But I think that there's some good to be gained from considering the Rosary in a more speculative way

or from considering it in a more theological way with the assistance of one St. Thomas Aquinas.

Now the Rosary came together historically over the course of decades, even centuries.

So it would have been practiced in the Carthusian and Dominican communities and originally it was

a way by which for labor others who were not ordained choir monks or friars to participate in the

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