Patreon/Live Q&A Timestamps: 13:53 (Q#1) - In heaven will we have a special love for those we knew on earth, for example, family, friends, saints we had a devotion to, or will we feel the same way about everyone? 16:32 (Q#2) - In the past when you've discussed free will I've heard you describe it as freedom to pursue what is good, and that the Fall should not be described as an act of free will. If not from free will, where does sin come from? And is our wills are enslaved to sin, how is it that we can say we have free will? 20:29 (Q#3) - Can you elaborate on not being led by our passions and moving towards being led by our reason and will? Is St. Thomas saying it is never good to be led by passions, or that it lessens the goodness of our actions if we do? 23:42 (Q#4, Part I) - Should your confessor and spiritual director be the same person? 24:07 (Q#4, Part II) - What training/credentials should a lay person have t be considered a qualified spiritual director? Is there a reliable website that lists approved spiritual directors? 26:28 (Q#5) - Is it appropriate to have a spiritual director who is of another Order than you? 27:52 (Q#6) - How does God becoming man not change God's immutability? Also, does God have emotions or not? 30:31 (Q#7) - Does the Counsel of Trent contradict Vatican II when talking about Protestants in the economy of salvation? 34:12 (Q#8) - What would you Fathers recommend to help with good studying (the type that St. Thomas talks about)? Things like how to make good notes, how to read, how to focus (anything else to make studying fruitful). 35:48 (Q#9) - How should I pray for a miracle while preparing my heart for the possibility that it is not in God's Will? And should I go to Jesus Christ and/or ask for an uncanonized person/ canonized saint's intercession? 38:24 (Q#10) - Can you speak a little on the cloistered Dominican nuns? 41:00 (Q#11) - What risk do you think there is in treating the faith as if it were a personal accessory though certain kinds of religion-themed apparel/items? It seems like some media may cheapen symbols of the faith before the symbols can elevate the media. 43:12 (Q#12) - Is there any known history behind the black and white Dominican cross? When was it adopted by the Order and why? 44:08 (Q#13) - Is Jesus talking to Himself when He prays to the Father in the Gospels? 46:36 (Q#14) - At what point in discernment should one seek spiritual direction? 47:38 (Q#15) - Can you provide an example of when spiritual direction might be warranted? And what can one expect from that experience? 49:30 (Q#16) - If the Divine Names are identical to the Essence that makes it seem like God would have to create us. How does that not take away from God's free will? 54:14 (Q#17) - How specific do we have to be about venial sins in confession? 53:19 (Q#18) - Does the Lord sometimes speak from His Trinitarian nature in the Gospels? For example, when Jesus pronounces He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life could this also be a reference to the three persons? 55:28 (Q#19) - Should one be fully in agreement with a Religious community as defined by its rules and practical way of life before joining the community? 56:38 (Q#20) - Would you agree that an annual silent retreat with a spiritual director would be deeply fruitful and many people could benefit from this practice before seeking a regular spiritual director? 58:00 (Q#21) - I think believing in the existence of something outside of our cognitive/logical function is believing in God. How should I approach people's understanding of God as a humanist? For me, the idea of God as neither rational nor irrational, but non-rational seems to fit with the Trinity, etc

Thank you Fathers really great episode. Father Pine safe travels. To both of you please protect yourselves from all the illness in the world today keeping you and all my Spiritual Fathers in my prayers.

Two months later and this is speaking to me on different levels! God bless you, Fathers!

Nice river analogy. And I love all the banking metaphors! Very useful descriptions! ❤️

Nice river analogy! Very helpful. Thank you! ❤️

🦋Happy Feast Day! Oh I loved reading St DOMINIC life story in elementary library when I was a kid. Loved saint books!

There is training the monastary in beech Grove IN has training it lasts 2 yes and has been going on for years I have a spiritual director there

Prayer to Mary, by de Grandmaison Holy Mary, Mother of God, preserve in me the the heart of a child, pure and clean like spring water; a simple heart that does not remain absorbed in its own sadness; a loving heart that freely gives with compassion; a faithful and generous heart that neither forgets good nor feels bitterness for any evil. Give me a sweet and humble heart that loves without asking to be loved in return, happy to lose itself in the heart of others,sacrificing itself in front of your Divine Son; a great and unconquerable heart, which no ingratitude can close and no indifference can tire; a heart tormented by the glory of Christ, pierced by his love with a wound that will not heal until heaven.

Welcome to Ohio.

Could you sometime talk about preparation for death for the ageing and ill - and for everyone else, of course.

🦋 I wish my brain could process as fast as you guys think & a speak! Love when you break it down to chew size pieces!🤓

🦋Spiritual direction is a luxury since it’s hard to arrange time with priest availability.