Gregory Pine

Some people who live alone would say, okay, we're gonna be quiet after 8 p.m. this week, or have a media fast.

I was listening to a great Dominican priest named Father Gregory Pine.

I think he was talking to Matt Fradd, and he said this.

He said, how about this? Next time you go out to dinner, and you look at the menu, don't order the thing you most want.

In fact, I came across a priest.

He's a great Dominican priest named Father Gregory Pine.

And at one point, Father Gregory Pine was talking to, I think, Matt Fradd.

And he talked about, he said, we can offer these small, small things.

He says, imagine you go out to eat and you're looking at the menu.

I didn't read it.

So, you know, I don't know why I'm recommending something I didn't read, but it is by the fabulous Father Gregory Pine.

And I did listen to a lot of interviews about this book he wrote called Training the Tongue and Growing Beyond Sins of Speech.

OK, so again, haven't read it.

Listen to multiple interviews with Father Gregory Pine.

And I have to say, I am super intrigued by his approach to training the tongue.

Because rather than looking at our speech and dissecting it and searching for the sin, right, like looking for all the vice and the words that are going to lead us to hell, he instructs us to focus on verbal virtue.

That's real appealing to me.

So here we go.

This is Father Gregory Pine.

This is Father Joseph Anthony Kress.

And welcome to Godsplaining.

But there's more to the story.

Emma understood languages she had never learned, Latin, Hebrew, and the accounts say she responded to them correctly in front of priests who spoke them.

She identified relics that were deliberately hidden and never announced on multiple occasions the moment they entered the building.

Multiple adult witnesses, nuns, priests, physicians, and many others reported her manifesting in very bizarre ways, rising off a bed, standing rigid with only her heels touching the mattress, her abdomen swelling to grotesque proportions and returning to normal.

She also was said to have vomited amounts that could not possibly fit inside a human being of contents that she never consumed.

Two physicians who examined her independently found no reason to believe she was insane and no evidence of hysteria.

It is breathtaking.

Father Gregory Pine, who's been a guest on this podcast a few times, he did a video for Ascension maybe six months to a year ago.

And they had him rate every single cathedral that is in an – I think in an archdiocese.

So it was not every single cathedral for every diocese in the country, but every archdiocese.

I mean, 'cause you don't...

Uh, there was a, a, well, I could say a funny story, but there was a, a nun that was a very good friend of my mother, and she used to come and visit us sometimes.

And when the news was on, back in those days there were three channels-

Ah, yeah

The sources don't tell us how long that first session lasted, but it was almost certainly hours.

For two aging priests, every command, every prayer, every struggle took its toll.

By the time they finally brought the session to a close, they were utterly exhausted.

In addition, the plan to avoid public attention immediately began to fail.

This ministry demands far more physically, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually than most people realize.

As the exorcism dragged on and it became clear this would not be a quick victory, the cost to those assisting with the exorcism mounted.

The priests grew physically exhausted, but the sisters bore their own burden.

Day after day, they witnessed violence, blasphemy, and terrifying manifestations all happening within their own home.

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Father Gregory Pine.

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Yeah, definitely have, Pints with Aquinas would be one, yeah, that's for sure.