Fr. Gregory Pine

So it's like, so telling the truth becomes the basis of communion.

We can only come together on common ground.

And then approaching like the particular sins that you describe,

Yeah, so I focus a lot on like conversation.

You know, a lot of people talk about dialogue as if dialogue were a good in itself, which I don't think it is.

Dialogue is for something.

Yes.

And it's not always clear what it's for at the outset.

Like I think if you approach somebody whom you don't know and say like, let's talk about very serious things, that person's gonna be like back away slowly.

Yeah.

So I think there's a point to small talk.

We're meant to kind of perform our communion in the way that we can.

With the hope that we might mature in a friendship, but you're not going to be friends with everybody.

You might be friends with like two to five people.

If you're lucky.

Yeah, exactly.

So yeah, the idea there is that we're hosting a conversation because talking helps, because life is worth sharing, because we have a hope that we can go to God together.

And so then in order to do that, we need to encourage people to come kind of out of the cold and gather around the hearth.

Like it's cold out there.

And we just lose touch with our extremities and we're like, what is going on?