Hello and welcome back to Pines with Aquinas. I am Father Gregory Pine,

joining you from Freeberg, Switzerland. So yeah, I'm just back to Switzerland now for the past

few days. Sadly, the reason for what I went to the United States most recently was because,

let's see, a death in the family. So my mother has been sick for the past two years with

a pancreas cancer and she just passed away, I guess it's like two two and a half weeks ago,

which yeah, I don't know exactly how to describe it in ways that are candid, genuine, sincere,

and at all helpful. But as you might imagine, by, you know, by the past couple of years, but specifically

by the past couple of weeks. So just yeah, with my mom having been sick, there was a kind of sense or

a hope among us that she had been permitted or she was being permitted to endure to undergo her

purgatory on this earth in a way that might kind of speed her through the final test that she might

persevere onto the end. But yeah, I mean, certainly in the days following her death, immediately

following her death, you hear a lot of people just say like, you know, she's she's going to be

assumed into heaven or some sure she's enjoying the division of God right now and things along those

lines. And for, you know, for myself, for my brother and sisters, for my father, there was an

occasion for our own, you know, kind of reflection on the matter, our own prayer on the matter.

It like how best, how best to receive those comments, how best to interpret those comments,

you know, how best to kind of process them. So my mom was, you know, is a very good woman.

I think a very holy woman. She died on September 7th, which is the Feast of Saint Regina. So our

hope is that it would be a feast celebrated for two Regina's in good time. Yeah, and throughout

the course of her life, she was very devout. She was very faithful. She was very evangelical in

her disposition. So she and my father ran a little religious, good as a Catholic bookshop in town

for many years and the place where we grew up. And she's, you know, super involved the church and

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