Fr. Gregory Pine

Insofar as the very tools with which we're trying to process our experience are themselves bent, not broken, but bent.

And so I think that the real protagonist of history is the beggar, in the sense that we have to beg for God if we are going to be delivered from our calamity.

Thanks be to God, Christ comes begging for us in some strange fashion.

And so if we are going to know, there is a sense in which we're also going to have to be healed and grown beyond our present limitations.

So when people experience their bankruptcy,

I think that's a beautiful precondition to asking for enrichment and specifically from the only person who can furnish it in plenary fashion, God.

So it's like when grace comes into our life, it heals us and it grows us.

It's not just like something that's layered on, it gets into all of the nooks and crannies of our humanity and rectifies them, reconciles them, furnishes us with what we need in order to live well.

So I'd say for the person who wants to have certainty, who wants to have confidence, I'd say go to Eucharistic adoration, just sit yourself in front of the Lord.

I think a lot of people who aren't churched or who aren't religious find that a more pleasant place to be necessarily than mass because there's not as many moving parts.

can just plunk themselves down and they can just you know it feels strange to talk to jesus if you're not accustomed to eucharistic teaching and practice but you can just sit down in a church where the blessed sacrament is either present in the tabernacle or exposed in a monstrance and just talk it out with the lord and you might not yield much from that conversation but the typical experience is that

When you go home, you find that like the furniture of your moral life has shifted ever so slightly, sometimes more than so slightly.

It's shifted and it's kind of created space within which to re-engage or to like envision your life anew.

So I'm a cheater, you know, like I don't like go for the philosophical proofs because I feel like I can just do the theological work.

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Yeah, so that's a humble acknowledgement of one's existential state.

And I think where there is humility, there's already God's working.

or God is already working there.