Episode 087: Back to Virtue - Fortitude

[Music] welcome to godsplaining contemplative preachers contemporary age each week join the dominican friars as they consider all things catholic welcome to godsplaining this is father jacob bertrand janczyk i'm here today with our very own father patrick briscoe uh how you doing father patrick hello friends friends wow that's very inviting that's great uh yeah so i guess start by saying a blessed triduum today is holy thursday so obviously the the holiest days of our of our faith and of our liturgical life so hopefully this year unlike last year where you our listeners are able to get to these liturgies in person and not just don't just have to listen to us talk about things on the podcast and can actually worship in person this year so we're certainly praying for you these days and uh yeah we'll continue through the easter season of course so father patrick speaking of holy week i was going to say are you doing anything for holy week of course you are because you're a priest and priest do ever you know a lot during during the triduum so um but what does that look like for you in providence this year well one of the things that's a little bit different for us is we'll actually have students around um so a few of us from the chaplaincy are supporting the true woman saint pius church the parish church um right at providence college um so i'll be attending most of the liturgies there uh father james sullivan the infamous pastor of saint pius v our our novice master which is my father jacob and i are sort of chuckling yes we call him infamous um everything that we're good at in the dominican life is from father james and everything we're bad at in the dominican life is from father from father james yeah he's responsible for it all good bad and otherwise yep um he invited me to be the celebrant and preacher on good friday so i i think he was looking for somebody somebody to really bring it down you know and uh to take them into the depths and and the dark i can certainly do that sounds beautiful yeah after this year of covid you know i've got plenty of clouds so we could descend into the depths of the lord great um we are going to sing the passion though that's going to be really exciting so father justin bulger of the hillbilly thomas is going to be the narrator and i'll be the christ uh being the celebrant and preacher and then we have a little turba a crowd um singing the responses from the choir loft so that's very cool we're using the arrangement we're using the arrangement that was done by um father michael o'connor from the house of studies so i really like the chords and uh the the way that he scripted the text i just think it's very well done um and it was super easy to coordinate in the parish too so i have a lot of hopes of how beautiful that will be i'm so i you don't often say like oh what's your highlight um you know so my highlight is going to be good friday that's great yeah that setting of the chanting of the of the passion is something that we do in a lot of our communities and the the christ and um the narrator are obviously solo voices but the the tour by the crowd as father patrick was talking about is is a choir that sings in harmony so you have these great kind of like explosions of the crowd it's it's really it's really quite powerful it's it's great um we do the same here at the house of studies so uh and we did in our novitiate st gertrude so that's great um speaking of singing one of the my my true to him is is wrapped with singing this year for myself so there's the the house of studies as scola but father michael o'connor who father patrick mentioned is our scholar director and formed an octet of um some friars who sing a bit more so i haven't sung with this skull in a long time but it'll be fun to to sing throughout the triumph so oh well look at you an i know a fancy singer a fancy singer that's right did you audition father no i only i don't audition it's only inviting invite only sounds very exclusive yeah my agent spoke to them all the you know these sort of things yeah so no but i'm looking forward to it and then cooking easter dinner i'm on the cooking i'm not the head cook but on the cooking crew here for easter sunday so that's a big thing cooking for 70 friars so i'm excited for that so those meals are always so much fun to prep for they are i mean it's just a big crowd in the kitchen all day so do you remember the year father davenport cooked the easter bunny he did he made rabbit for chris fergus and yeah great bless his heart uh he's another of our classmates formed by father james so um and actually you know father patrick that's a wonderful way to transition into today's topic because dealing with father thomas at times especially eating the easter bunny requires required a lot of fortitude a lot of patience a lot of perseverance all things we're going to cover today so today's episode on this holy thursday is not about what father patrick and i are doing over the coming days really but about the the seventh and final virtue that we were talking about in this back to back to virtue series throughout lent the virtue of fortitude uh so just by way of recapping where we've been the last six weeks we started the week before lunch because we couldn't squeeze all seven into the six weeks of lent so we started the week before uh but we started talking with the feel of the theological virtues faith hope and charity and then the last three weeks prudence justice and temperance three of the four cardinal or moral virtues we'll finish with the fourth fortitude today but just as a reminder about virtues in general if this is the first time you're tuning in to these virtue episodes then this is good for you to to listen here if you've listened to other ones while you've gotten this but you're getting it again but the virtues what are they it's always helpful to know what we're talking about the virtues are tools in the christian life tools of christian perfection that um function within the dispensation of grace we would say so god gives us graces to act in a particular way and this particular way is really what we would call an imitatio christi an imitation of christ christ had the fullness of virtues christ had the fullness of what it meant to be human but also while maintaining his divine nature he had the fullness of virtues and as christians were called to live the fullness of human life which is dictated guided by the virtues so i mentioned those three father patrick the theological virtues if if you could just give us like a super quick sound bite you know on each faith hope charity what they are why they're theological then we'll cruise right into the into the um moral virtues sure so the theological virtues you know again as we've as we've continued to say those those are the virtues that pertain directly to god so they orient us to heaven and they allow us to see things from heaven's perspective um and they modify their their perfective qualities of the human condition in their own way so they so they modify the intellect and the will so faith is a habit of mind allowing us to believe unto god to believe in the things that god said and to be united to god by virtue of our intellect by virtue of our mind hope and charity however are the will so hope allows us to have a confidence of heart in the things that god has planned for us you know different than knowing right to to to have the strength of heart the confidence um in the faithfulness of god to his promises and that we will attain them so not only that god will give us these things but it will be possible it will be possible to grasp them that's hope and then charity is to delight in god directly so that that sharing of god's own life which bonds us to the lord charity is union or as we talk about it in the domestic tradition charities friendship with god um so so those are the three of the theological virtues and um they are so grand because they are required uh they require god's grace you know it's the lord that gives them you can't manufacture faith you can't manufacture hope you can't manufacture charity all of these things are dependent on god's own divine life and so for this reason they're very different than the moral virtues right yeah the moral virtues as opposed to the theological um the moral as father patrick was saying the object of the theological virtues the thing at which they are aimed as god himself the object of the moral virtues is human action really they direct our action um and our control of our faculties now these can be oriented to god and they should be oriented to god but they don't have god himself as their object so if we think of prudence right remember that prudence is the virtue that disposes practical reason it directs our reason to discern our true good in every circumstance so it directs all of our actions um it helps us choose make you know we often say make a prudent decision here or maybe that's more of a dominican thing to say rather than you know as a vocation director rather than discerning everything we i'd say make prudent choices um justice dictates our relationship to another rendering another his due and temperance we talked about last week governs what we call the concupiscible appetites it governs our relation to external objects that are either easy to get or diff or easy to avoid and we'll talk about the appetite in a second because fortitude has to do with the appetites but those virtues as father patrick said they're different because we can acquire them certainly through in a sort of non-supernatural way we can make acts of prudence they're moved by grace but they can also be infused in in us directly from god as a grace so i think by way of review we kind of we kind of cover it all if you want more you know where you can go you can just look back to the week when we talked about the particular virtue and listen to that episode uh see there you go um okay let's talk about fortitude then in particular what is the virtue of fortitude um i'll say this at least with respect to a general notion that we often think of fortitude as kind of a courage right something that gives us some bravery or courage or a resolve a sort of strength of character to do things but when we talk about courage in the virtue in the sense of the virtue we're talking about something a little bit more here i guess walk us through that father patrick yeah so uh so st thomas aquinas would tell us that fortitude is the firmness of will that strengthens this harassable appetite to continue to pursue the difficult good in face of grave danger okay so that so that's very complicated and jargony um but what's the first thing that is that is most striking about this um i i remember being just stunned when i learned that aquinas thought that fortitude was the was the ability to face the threat of death this is the key this is what courage is about courage is about being able to to be steadfast even when the greatest goods of health and person are threatened um so so we have we have to we have to start that high right to say what is this virtue actually about this virtue is about being able to do what is good and what is right when one's own existence when one's own life is threatened right so so i think that that has to be our starting place and then we can yeah we can unpack all the rest of it right but but that's really the key for saint thomas right yeah it's i think it's too easy i think to think that the virtues because especially the moral virtues because they govern human action that they they sort of have a cap like a ceiling that they only kind of pertain to the things of this world you know they that they that they only deal with um our earthly existence but really the virtues that they govern human action our human action is not divorced from from you know our relationship with god in fact this is why we're given grace even with the moral virtues we're not just supposed to be like virtuous pagans you know in the sense that like we were like just a good civil secular citizen but that were good christian citizens of this earth so when father patrick makes the point that this is that fortitude is that virtue that that helps us that enables us to face death that's the prime object and the prime analogy now we can use the for the virtue of fortitude can be activated in different circumstances that don't necessarily involve a direct threat of death but that's the prime analogout and at it later on in the episode when we talk about living fortitude um this is also kind of the sometimes i like to think of this as like the virtue of the martyrs um fortitude obviously the martyrs are full of charity and faith and hope but their fortitude is like i think often of the virtue of the martyrs but it doesn't always have to be a glorious kind of reality so father patrick also mentioned um the appetites and i did two before um father do you want to yeah with that yeah is it like am i hungry appetite let me get fortitude so i don't die from hunger what are we talking about what what do we mean by this so i'm always hungry but then i always want food so it's because you for years you were used to burning 6000 calories a day as a he's a world-class bodybuilder yeah so what what are the appetites to which we're referring well for aquinas and and other classical thinkers uh the soul has different parts and so when we talk about the irascible appetite we're we're talking about a particular thing that is desired um in the soul so um the concupiscible appetite these these are really the goods of pleasure right um and they're easy they're easy enough for us to obtain so temperance is the virtue that modifies the concupiscible appetites those again those those those that desire for that desire particularly for sensual pleasure um that that appetite uh which is just kind of the you know we might call it the most base but that that's a little too negative that you know the most human or immediate instinctual kind of thing we desire that's another way to think about it and that's the concupiscal appetite so so concupiscence is the sinful condition whereby we we desire those things right you could connect concupiscence in the cacupusable appetite the irascible appetite though is is not is not essential so these are the things that are a little bit more difficult to obtain or to avoid um they're still in the will right we're still we're still talking about um well not the will properly but we're still talking about we're still talking about um the soul and our desire um and their and the this irratible appetite is is that moderated by fortitude as a special thing so so here the irascible appetite is something a little bit more abstract and it's very easy to see with fortitude because it includes fear right that kind of fight or flight instinct so you can see how that that instinct would be very different from the desire for for sensual pleasure right yeah i think something that sometimes there's a criticism that's levied against saint thomas or some of the more scholastic theologians and thinkers of the church and that they they sort of are very kind of cold in their approach there's not a lot of emotion and they just have all these distinctions and make lists and that sort of thing whereas if you compare aquinas to augustine they write very differently i mean aquinas augustine writes in this sort of poetry and these stories and if you look at the summa theologica it's question answer question answer and these sort of things but for here with this this this is where we see kind of the scholastic distinction shine because as father patrick was saying that um the soul has different powers and different abilities and we know that just simply by observing what the person does you know so because i can think about things in an abstract way then we would say that the soul has the power of reason because i can react to things in a or i can grow you know all of us grow we're not the same so i'm not the same size i am now that i was when i was born we have these kind of vegetative kind of powers of the soul just for growth and for food and nourishment same thing with the senses this sort of sensual kind of part of our body and sensual here for thomas doesn't mean sexual necessarily sensual just means our senses are involved so even think of our five senses that we have but also our concupiscible and irascible senses two things so fortitude pertains to those difficult things and father patrick was talking about fear in our response to fear and we'll we'll break down some of the parts of fortitude in the second half of our episode just after our break and then we're going to talk about how we live fortitude how to cultivate the virtue of fortitude in our lives and which should be an important thing for us to consider because it pertains to our death and our persevering in the face of death so with that we're going to take a short break but we will be right back you are listening to god's planning visit us at listen to our episodes shop our store and donate to our podcast all gifts go to improving the podcast and bringing the gospel to more listeners thanks for your support welcome back to godsplaining i'm father jacob bertrand and i'm here with father patrick on this holy thursday and we today we're wrapping up our back to virtue series talking about the the seventh of the i don't know that was the principle virtues right three theological four cardinal moral i don't know is there a title for all seven of them that i don't know whatever jews the great virtues the principal virtues i don't know we always do we always distinguish between the cardinal and the theological yeah we don't really lump them together um but we will today we're they're lumped together as the great principal virtues that's beautiful you might we might call them the lumped virtues then we're not going to call them that we might not call them let's just be clear that's not going to happen but it's a nice effort but see you know we come to the best titles because we try things out you know we're not afraid and we'll persevere in this and we'll pray for the virtue of magnanimity this greatness to come up with the best title so see wow wow i see what you did coming attractions so for the first half of the episode we were talking about what fortitude is fortitude that virtue that moderates the irascible appetite the the the part of us that responds to things that are difficult to obtain or you know goods that are difficult to obtain or evils that are difficult to avoid and we need to need we need to to react inver the virtue of fortitude does that for us in us allows us to do that i think that's the better way to say it so let's look at three kind of areas so when we were talking about i was mentioning how the scholastics are good at making distinctions and thomas is kind of the king of this and when he looks at the virtues he always talks about the vices and the parts of the virtues so let's talk about some of the parts of the virtues and then the vices to kind of get a more i don't know global scope of the virtue of fortitude so um we can identify two acts of of the virtue of fortitude um one is attack and one is endure i i guess in common parlance just like kind of like the fight or flight but not really flight because it's endorsed so yeah no i'm wrong so let's not use that scratch that uh that won't be edited out either but uh there you go so attack or endure father i mean what do we mean like attack like fight back is that what we're talking about actually yes i mean in this in the sense that it's an action right and really doing something so fortitude is often depicted you see depictions of the virtue of fortitude fortitude is often depicted with a shield or with a sword recognizing that that yeah fortitude is about engaging in the battle um that there's a manfulness to be had here a defensive and active aspect to the virtue um so so the act of fortitude um the attack is the the response to any kind of aggression that that is that is put on us right and again we said at the top of the episode i said for saint thomas fortitude is about the danger of death and so here that the principal act is is uh is fighting back you know the response here um that that this is this is where we have to this is where we have to start um and so when we think about when we think about great acts of courage we think about things that are really grand and for that reason magnanimity is one of these associated virtues and it's connected with this with this principle act of fortitude of attack um because magnanimity is the kind of greatness of soul it's the it's the part of fortitude that allows us to do something really big really grand right um you know magnanimity uh the the great example of magnanimity is the firefighter that runs into the burning building in order to save someone you know at the risk of his own life um he's doing something truly heroic where the policeman that puts himself in danger right um to to save another citizen um so so this is this this involves a kind of grandeur a height a a real nobility um and that's that again that kind of striking back and and doing something forward that draws one outside of oneself yeah i think that that nobility of virtue with the magnanimity is really important because often we think in the christian life of like how how am i to behave the virtue that often comes up is humility which actually falls under the virtue of temperance but uh is is humility but it's not just humility is not a cowering it's not a sort of like i can never lift my head up like you know i have to beat myself up because it's paired it should be paired with this this virtue that falls on their fortitude of magnanimity that father was just talking about magnanimity is that virtue that inclines us to perfect some great act it calls us to greatness humility tempers that by calling us to appropriate greatness but we are called to greatness we're called to greatness in serving god whether that's his father was saying with you know being a firefighter being a police officer being a soldier being a doctor or the greatness of being a mother and a homeschooler and or the greatness of suffering your death well in your bed you know like these things right our greatness is not determined by by human by earthly worth but by you know by responding to what is before us in a in a saintly way and i think that i was just going to say something about the this sort of attack response that we do we attack the devil we attack you know there is a spiritual warfare there is a real warfare here i remember this my uh a few months ago probably in the fall when um sister dede byrne do you remember she she is she's a nun she's a surgeon but also a nun um and she gave a talk at the at the republican national convention and in that she said that um you know we grab our rosaries as our weapons or something like that right and i remember somebody responding in the social media world saying well no we don't as christians we don't use weapons and it's like no no hold up we sister is absolutely right yes we do because there's a real spiritual combat here and that you know our prayer and the virtues these are the devils trying to attack us but grace and these virtues are our weapons to persevere especially fortitude in these in these difficult settings but there's also i think there's a quiet side to fortitude if that makes sense father patrick there are a couple um yeah yeah so this is the second act you know we've we've placed we placed a lot of emphasis here on the first act of fortitude which is the act of aggression or attack but the second act of fortitude um is even more noble for aquinas it's a it's a it's a still grander thing um and it's more noble because frankly it's more difficult and so here's where here's where aquinas has the great reconciliation between the gospel and the the tradition of the ancient world because for aquinas the greatest examples of fortitude are the martyrs and why are the martyrs so great well because they are able to endure and to persevere despite uh great great suffering and great death um and you know very painful death that is um so so endurance this idea of being able to stick with it is for equine as part of fortitude because it's not a passive thing it requires still an act of the will to endure is not not just to to merely tolerate or put up with or bear with um but but it's but it's really it's really to fight and so for aquinas these allied virtues that support uh this act of endurance are so important so patience and perseverance are things that we do i mean i remember coming to the dominican order and one one friar who was preaching a retreat in the novitiate told us very bluntly his novices brothers pray always for the grace of perseverance you know in the hope that we would die as dominicans that we would be able to be faithful to the vows into the life of the gospel perseverance is a real thing and it takes a clinging on which is which is why in public life we we see and bear sadness when when there are priests or others who who don't persevere um who who cast it off so so father maybe you have more to say about patience and and perseverance father jacob is such a patient man you know so so he he really is a grand expert of patience so this this will be really rich in him unpacking patience for us i would say i'm more predictable than i am patient father patrick but that's most of my responses can be can be played out before i even respond that's kind of you i'm not a patient person i'm an ornery person um but the first step to change is you know recognizing the the need for change so here i am recognizing isn't that now we're demonstrating humility we just have all the okay uh yeah i think i think the the the importance here of the virtue of fortitude and patience and perseverance is highlighted by the fact that there is a sacrament intimately associated with these realities and that's the sacrament of the anointing of the sick remember that fortitude as we've said a few times that fortitude is the the object of fortitude and what it's ultimately oriented to is persevering or having courage in the face of death attacking in the face of death certainly uh the the the temptations of the devil but enduring the pains and the sufferings and the loneliness and all the sickness and all of that of death one of their there are these great great great i can't say great enough dominican sisters the dominican sisters of hawthorne they were founded by rose hawthorne nathaniel hawthorne's daughter and they were founded to care first for um terminally ill cancer patients and they but they care for a lot of the sick these women holy and they work like nobody's business they're incredible women if you're thinking of a vocation and want to work with the sick the hawthorne dominican sisters are you know look no further but one of the things they said is that part of their the nursing work that they do is that they they also are sort of the spiritual care for these people and that that that um and witnessing and being with countless people who have died they they attest the one sister said that you know the battle is not over to the last moment the battle's not over to the last moment that satan's trying to tempt people away from from the good from christ in in their loneliness and pain and suffering even into the last moment so the sacrament of anointing of the sick is is is not there to heal the sick though it may but it's there to strengthen the sick in the face of death to strengthen them particularly in this virtue of fortitude and of hope um so i don't think we can hammer home enough the importance of that but i'll say this and and kind of leave it here at least on this point is that these these sorts of things remember that remember that we are what we do we build habits and we build our character is built on what we do um the virtues are built our habitu so we've talked about that in a couple of our previous episodes so it's very important to think now um if we want to uh be prepared for a happy and a holy death to start practicing the virtues now so as to be trained in them now so that they can be called upon in the moments of of of great necessity of great necessity so this is the whole point of the life of virtue is that we practice the virtues and you know and pray for them throughout our entirety of the life so that way they can be called upon in those most extreme moments um so one of the last things we'll say at least about this and then a few things about living fortitude that the devices the virtues are always sailing through the middle of vices and father patrick alluded to this with the firefighter example but two of the two of the vices that are associated with the virtue are fear and fearlessness so cowardice and i don't know what braggadociousness is that something um i guess if you use the firefighter example you know here the the virtuous and the the firefighter who exercises fortitude is the one who runs into the burning building to save somebody who's trapped but the vice here the lack of fortitude could be seen in two ways well he doesn't run in when he needs to save somebody because of fear he's overcome by fear or the fearlessness which is also a lack of fortitude is that he runs into a burning building when it's empty that's not courage that's stupidity you know that's that's that lacks the virtue um so we can see that the the greatness of the virtues is that it fine-tunes our actions to do the good thing promptly joyously and easily as thomas says um yeah just highlights it a little bit more so we've kind of walked through fortitude we have a handful of minutes left so let's talk about living the virtue of fortitude how to live it how to grow in it any thoughts here father patrick yeah i think you know part of the way that part of the way that we succeed in christian living right is looking to examples and and living in our lives uh what they teach us so so who are you dear listener uh who are you thinking of when you think of someone who is courageous who is it that you think has the virtue of fortitude i mean one one example that i that i like to give is um samwise gamgee in the lord of the rings right because his his fortitude is the kind of faithful perseverance that every christian needs he's not a stoic sam is very emotional he's very very devoted to to frodo um but not neither is he some kind of listless waif i mean like we could think of that we could think of the great scene where they're approaching mount doom right where samwise puts frodo up on his shoulder and carries carries that little hobbit to destroy to destroy the ring when when frodo himself can't take another stat that is what perseverance looks like uh that that is that is real fortitude um you know heading into the land of doom um the land of darkness but but intent and fixed on the goal um so as to be completely undeterred from it yeah i i too have an um an example from literature uh and from the other great author c.s lewis and the voyage of the dawn treader ripa jeep um at the end of the voyage the dawn treader this little mouse got big mouse guy but he's great he's kind of you know always ready to fight somebody throughout the books but there's this beautiful scene when they're reaching the end of the world that you know towards the east and he says you know he he just wants to go on to the east he just wants to go um go to aslan's country and as they're at the eastern edge of the world when the ship can go no further he says this while i can i sell east in the dawn treader when she fails me i paddle east in my coracle when she sinks i shall swim east with my four paws and when i can swim no longer if i have not reached aslan's country or shot over the edge of the world into some vast cataract i shall sink with my nose to the sunrise it's so beautiful this little mouse he's like he's going to do everything he can to persevere to get to aslan who's of course god in this and i think these characters from literature you know show forth the virtues in a way that we can kind of think about them in in a kind of fanciful way but also these these virtues are as father patrick said you know living in the martyrs every time in the churches in our life we in the divine office we pray the office of readings and when we get to a celebration of a martyr's feast day there's also also often a recounting of the martyr's death or like a letter from his last days and you hear these in their words they're not they're not deluded they're not deluded about what's coming you know they and they're not not fearful um but they their their hope and that what they're looking at is is christ and they're full of prayer and even in their death they're full of prayer you know so these these men and women um who are sort of the the highest example of this virtue really show to us that um even in simple kind of things you know we may not be martyred but you know we are asked to give our lives for christ day in and day out they're great examples um father patrick you also mentioned too this this praying for this perseverance what is i guess just a word on what that might look like for us yeah that's right so we you know when we're talking about the moral virtues the carnal virtues that's the big four not the top three but the big four in the in the lump of seven okay we're talking always about the kind of thing that can be sharpened and fine-tuned by our action but then also enhanced by god's grace so when we pray for perseverance when when we pray for an outpouring of fortitude in our lives it's the kind of fortitude that can reach the kingdom the kind of thing that cannot echo into eternity and that that can extend beyond our actions and so this is the this this is what allows the saints to do great things you know it's the kind of thing that made monica a tender um a tender mother of her son and and a faithful spouse despite a very difficult marriage or it's the kind of thing that that that makes a saint brave for leaving his homeland like patrick of ireland one of father jacob urchin's favorite saints um it's the kind of thing that made patrick of ireland adventurous and not foolhardy you know for desiring to spread the gospel in a foreign land because according to the metric of the world um the virtues resonate differently but with god's grace they they they ring and echo um with far greater um uh far greater sound so yeah all right well you know as we as we get into holy week on this holy thursday perhaps the virtue of fortitude or another virtue is uh something that we can offer or pray for in these coming days we will certainly be praying for you through the triduum and ask you to pray for us too that we together uh can celebrate the joy of the resurrection in just a few days time persevere it's almost there we'll make it through the fast of a good friday and get to rejoice at the vigil and on easter sunday we're praying in a special way for all of those who are going to be received into the church this this easter for all of our catechumens and candidates so know of our prayers there too um a few a few announcements a few things at the end of at the end here um we of course as you know launched a merchandise store a few probably a couple months ago now so there's great stuff there we have we're we're launching uh an easter uh merchandise item these these nice sweatshirts with the the crucifixion image that we have on a sticker right now but it's also will be put on sweatshirts so check those out as part of our easter gift to one or two of you i was going to say all of you not all of you we're going to give away a couple of those sweatshirts so if you would rate uh rate the the podcast leave a review of the podcast of the show on um apple podcasts we'll have a drawing in a week or so and give away a couple of those sweatshirts so please do um rate and and review the show it helps us out immensely thanks to all of our benefactors all of our donors if you're interested in donating to the podcast and supporting the podcast check us out on our patreon page also by way of a final announcement don't forget that we are hosting a retreat this summer with the five of us hosts um myself father patrick father joseph anthony father bond inventor and father gregory um in huntington new york july 23rd through 25th for young adults if you're interested in that i would recommend checking it out quickly because it is filling up fast so if you'd like a spot on that uh you should register sooner than later other than that father patrick i think that's everything is that right am i forgetting anything yeah we can progress now to the final blessing and the conclusion of holy mass are we doing that well you were giving the announcements oh i was going to say that's just where my mind always goes it's like can we leave are the donuts out yet thanks father patrick that's a blessing well we won't we won't belabor this anymore so thanks for tuning in and until next time god bless thanks for listening to god's planning a work of the dominican friars of the province of saint joseph follow us on facebook twitter and instagram leave a review on your podcast app and visit us at godsplaining.org

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Rating: 5 out of 5

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Id: qKOqBdYZ12o

Length: 37min 5sec (2225 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 01 2021