Fr. Gregory Pine

Okay, yeah, woo-woo or touchy-feely or whatever it is.

New agey.

Yeah, nice.

But like the point is to come together.

In a sense that, and this is a traditional philosophical position, namely that we are social animals or political animals.

Sometimes you'll hear it conjugal animals.

I like to add ecclesial animals.

But the idea is that our lives are meant to be shared.

So we come into the world related or we come into the world for relationship and interaction.

And we don't choose a lot of that.

It goes before us, which I think would be like a kind of classic response to social contract theory.

It's our sociality precedes us.

That is to say, it's baked into our nature.

The question is whether we'll lean in or whether we'll lean out.

And speech affords us a way of concretizing our thoughts and affections, so is ultimately to share them.

so that we can come together.

Because by virtue of the fact that people have bodies, they're not able to occupy the same space.

Right, right.

And you know, like you think of all romantic literature, of an unchaste sword, it's like devour, of a chaste sword, it's like self-gift, you know, but like people want to be together.

Yeah.