Hello and welcome to Pines with Aquinas. I am Father Gregory Epine coming at you here live and

in this here weekly installment of

Question Answers. Well live stream with question and answers. I thought that for a topic or for a theme

We could talk about the Blessed Virgin Mary. Why? Well two weeks ago

We talked a little bit about the rosary but the focus there was more on the kind of practicals of

What are the mysteries that the rosary presents and how do we access those mysteries or how do we cultivate a kind of living

Contact with the mysteries that the rosary proposes and so you know, that was kind of more

geared towards the life of prayer and here

You know while this theme certainly has application when it comes to your prayer life

We're thinking about it a little bit more speculatively

So kind of musing or pondering what are the kind of core realities of our faith and then how those core realities and pinch upon us

So you know whenever you talk about why God loves anything you're talking about deep deep mysteries and as a result of which

We do so the kind of fear and trembling not that we can't trust God with with his love or with the objects of his love

But in the sense that as you get closer and closer

To the divine nature we come to the recognition that it's a consuming fire which purifies our minds and our hearts of any imperfection

Which would keep us from appreciating the realities themselves but also you know receiving or appropriating those realities in our lives

so

To dive right in then to the subject matter at hand

Why is it that God loves Mary or what is it about Mary that God loves or why does God love Mary so much you can approach it from a

Variety of angles

So I thought that maybe maybe a good way to set up the problem or a good way to approach the problem is just to think about the mysteries of God as

Being kind of in an order or as being articulated

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