In this episode, the dogs discuss summer movies (
1:00), putting the highest goods first (
14:00), and how God uses His incarnational reality to draw us into deeper communion (
29:40). Additionally, Michael Metz discovers the hermeneutic circle in real time (
30:40).
Quotes:
“How important it is for me to not try and take the greatest goods and use them as a manipulation to get the things that I want.” (Michael Metz,
14:00)
"You can fail to enjoy even the secondary goods when you don’t put the highest good first.” (Connor,
22:10)
"Nothing really can ever be lost; the giver of every good gift has promised, 'I am with you always even until the end of the age.'” (Connor,
23:10)
“No doubt, it is a great grace to receive the sacraments. When God does not permit it, it is good too! Everything is grace!” (Connor quoting St. Therese,
25:50)
"In the caverns of a baptized soul, there is this love. You don't stop being a person, you don't stop being a person who wants all the things people want, but you’re able to freely give them up.” (Connor,
35:50)