Fr. Gregory Pine

And so I'm seeking to mature such that these higher goods have more purchase, that they have more claim to me.

And so I think that like what's happening as our characters are developed is that like a space is being created in our life to accommodate those goods.

And yeah, like we're addressing certain obstacles or certain hindrances to the full realization, but then we're also coming before God and saying like, hey, if this is gonna work, it's going to be you who does it.

So one, grant me the grace to desire it, and two, bring it to perfection.

So, yeah, the promise is that it should be easy, which is wild.

Yeah.

So I think goodness comes from beyond us, irrespective of whether one believes or does not believe.

Like even Aristotle recognized that there's a certain measure of chance, luck, fortune.

He thought that the virtuous man needed that.

And so in Aristotle's estimation, virtue is kind of an aristocratic thing, because he thinks that you need to have enough time, enough leisure, enough money in order to be genuinely virtuous in the plenary sense.

But part of what I think is especially beautiful about the proclamation of the gospel is that the Lord's for each and every, and not like a Marxist, you know, like he recognizes that there's a certain goodness to differentiation because he wants to incorporate us in a mystical body.

He doesn't want us to just like be blandly egalitarian.

Just a blob, like some kind of Marxist gray blob.

Exactly.

Yeah, that's not a body.

That's not a true body.

That's not a true body.

And so I think that each human being can have the confidence that

His life, her life is not an accident.

There might be bad things that happen, decidedly bad things.