Fr. Gregory Pine

And he realized that if he really invested in this, that like he might be, he might be good.

And let's say at the time, like he was in the school play, he was on the Mathletes, you know, he was doing Scholars Bowl.

I'm just listing things that I did.

You know, I'll never be cool.

It's good to know that from the outset.

But he might've done those things.

You can't rule it out.

You can't rule it out.

Quiz Bowl, baby.

But he probably said to himself, like, listen, these things all meet at the same time.

I'm going to have to detach from certain lower goods in order to attach to certain higher goods.

And human life's like that in the sense that like, you know, I like Sour Patch Kids and I like cool conversations with cool people by chance happenstance.

And I like Eucharistic Holy Hours.

Right.

And I like heaven.

don't yet know what it's gonna be like entirely, but I've had some glimpses, you know?

Okay, so let's just say that it's Ash Wednesday, all right?

And I can only have one meal today because that's the church's law.

And I might be lusting after Sour Patch Kids, but this lower good has to take the backseat to this higher good in the circumstances, right?

And truth be told, my affections should not be as enslaved to Sour Patch Kids as they are in fact.