Hello and welcome to Pine. So the quiet and some Father Gregory Pine come and

add to you in the usual way at the usual time and saying the usual things. But I

hope not uninterestingly. So as you have no doubt gathered by this juncture,

having clicked on the link as you have, we're going to talk about death. And this

is some response to a request from one of Matt's patrons who asked that we

would cover something of the last things, the four last things. I thought rather

than address it all in one kind of big topic, which won't do anything

approaching justice to each of those four themes. Then we could break it up into

four distinct themes. Whether I get to all of them remains to be seen. It will

it will to be it's kind of to be determined, I suppose. But I thought that we

start with death since it's the first first thing guaranteed to us all at the

end and then passed to judgment and potentially heaven and hell. We actually

already did hell and how to avoid it. But maybe talk about judgment and heaven and

do course. So when talking about death, we have some principles from St. Thomas

Aquinas, which help us to illumine the concept. And I thought that we could

talk about how it is first natural, how it is next unnatural, and third how it

can be supernatural. So one way by which to organize it, obviously not the only

way, but away. So in one sense, then, is death to be considered as natural. Here,

I think that we can begin with a consideration of our peculiar, peculiar

condition as human beings and that we occupy what St. Thomas Aquinas calls

the horizon of creation. So we alone among created things are both material

and immaterial. Now mind you, you know, certain material things have as it were

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