Father Mike Schmitz

then you realize that, oh my gosh, you get to actually play around.

We thank you so much for bringing us once again to this day, to day 360.

And I say play around in the most cautious way of saying this.

We ask that you please continue to walk with us, continue to journey with us.

You get to rejoice in the multiple ways that scripture can be applied.

Above all, we ask you, Lord, to please continue to guide us because without your guidance, without your word, without your direction, we are completely lost.

If you look at the writings of the early church as well as the Middle Ages church, one of the things you find is great joy

Help us to be yours this day and every day.

In Jesus' name we pray.

in looking for new analogical senses or allegorical senses or anagogical senses, looking for new ways that the literal sense could be applied in these spiritual senses.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Okay, so we have the letter of Paul to Titus, which is really brief, obviously.

It's a brief letter, only three chapters.

And in it, I just want to highlight one piece.

And they just like, even to the point of like, they mentioned this particular kind of tree in the Psalms.

And that is that St.

Paul, as he's writing to Titus, Titus is in Crete.

And one of the things that even Paul quotes, he says that one of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.

And that kind of tree would reference this and this and this.