Fr. Gregory Pine

But like a lot of people tell me to my face that I haven't done well, and which can be difficult, obviously, because I'm proud, you know, and I'm angry and I'm vainglorious.

And like recently, I just, in those moments, I just pray for the grace to not be against that person.

You know, because I think that like a lot of discourse comes down to the recognition, like it's not us versus them in many instances.

There are instances in which it's powers and principalities, you know, it's not with flesh and blood.

And you just gotta be straightforward about that.

There's no sense in like making everyone out to be just...

whatever this is no this is this is actually conflict um but like just to not be against that person like i was having a conversation with somebody the other day and this individual was informing me as to ways in which things that i said could be misinterpreted and applied in a way that would hurt people

which I'm sensible to, like certain things that the individual said, I don't necessarily agree with.

But at the end of it, I just said like, hey, because she was basically moving to the exit because she just expected me to be angry with her, you know, in my proud, vainglorious way, which is...

A reasonable expectation.

A reasonable expectation.

And I said like, hey, if you don't want to go, you don't have to go.

I'm not against you.

And I'm open to the things that you're saying.

And dot, dot, dot.

And eventually she did have to go because blah, blah, blah, and thus and such.

But I think that...

we often have it in our minds that it's us versus them, when truth be told, it's us versus the evil one, and the evil one is sewing up, I mean, he's not sewing up, he's sewing discord, contention, strife, and I think that's a lot of what we hear in the static that's presently on the airwaves.

So I think the first step is a recognition of the purpose of the faculty of speech, which is communion, without sounding too, what did you refer to it earlier as, woo-woo?

A little woo-woo, a little, you know.