Hiking The Via Alpina and Other Life Events! w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

[@electrical_cord]

Fr. Gregory Pine has that gigachad beard. How fitting...

[@newparadigm7444]

One of the most difficult things about being catholic is accepting that nearly every person you know and/or love will burn in incomprehensible agony and terror for all eternity. According to catholic teaching and the saintly accounts and apparitions, heaven is reserved for only a infinitesimal minority, as few as one or two in million with some going to purgatory and the VAST majority falling into hell. God being all knowing and powerful knows nearly all his children are burning in agony but will never free them despite his ability to do so. They will endure this for all eternity, FOREVER, in this state of pure agony and terror. Nearly every you know. Your parents, family, friends, children will endure this fate. And even if you make it to heaven, you will have to live forever in paradise with the knowledge that nearly all those whom you loved are burning in agony and terror FOREVER. They are burning in the same lake of fire if they raped and murdered children or if they had sex with their life long wife before marriage and never made a good confession. But the fact that most people who ever lived, are living or will live will burn forever in hell is ultimately Gods will as he exists beyond space and time and knew this would be the final reality and ultimately nothing happens without him allowing it, so be it.

[@TheAngelicDoctor]

@@newparadigm7444you good bro? You’re acting like a sede/sspx/feeyenite… listen to St. Catherine to hear both of Gods mercy and of his justice at the moment of death for a soul. There is hope, as long as the soul accepts the mercy.

[@electrical_cord]

@@TheAngelicDoctor Yeah because V2 clearly taught that God's mercy abounds. If any non-Catholic, through no fault of their own, doesn't know the Church or Christ, he can be saved via invincible ignorance.

[@tcancella7286]

Thank you for the video Father. Your teachings always help me

[@kurtnotafed4645]

I will start studying in Fribourg this autumn

[@renaewalker7071]

So glad you did this type of update! Blessings to your next adventures in serving our Lord!

[@stephencallahan7877]

Thanks for the update. I liked the video. God Bless!

[@lilamaria4872]

Thank you Fr Gregory! God bless you! 🙏🙏🙏

[@angelfilpo7886]

Thanks Father.

[@DrBrian0450]

Congratulations Dr.!

[@ewtam24]

Thank you Father 🙏🏼

[@lindaharper2870]

God bless you Fr Pine!

[@masterchief8179]

We just need Fr Gregory Pine again on the show. Live, in studio. Please, gentlemen!

[@magnoliam4159]

Thanks for the update, and I enjoyed your stories! Prayers for you as you transition to your new teaching role.

[@julia2]

Loved your hiking stories!

[@nedwards3409]

I think that you will find college teaching to be very rewarding. Please continue making these kinds of videos, though, for regular people such as me. As a fairly new convert to Catholicism (June 2020), I have learned a great deal from your videos, and have appreciated the high quality of instruction that you provide. You have a way of blending the mind and the heart when you present information, and this will be a great benefit for your future students.

[@aiantenor9080]

Your dissertation Fr Pine is exactly my question to God back in 2010, how can Christ passion save me. I thought I had a weird question that I shouldn't ask in the first place. But God so graciously showed me since then. Thank you for all that you do.

[@WilsonAcres]

Great question and one I've genuinely had a well. I can't wait to read a more dumbed down book version of his dissertation.

[@danieltuckercatholic]

God bless you Fr. Gregory, keep up the great work! I wish I could take a course with you at the DHS, I so enjoyed your lectures when I heard you on TI visits and retreats. P. S. You are ROCKING that beard!

[@anneschofield9726]

Thank you for sharing the job openings; thank you Fr Pine!

[@gerddonni2017]

Ahhhh, your German is awesome! And pity your hiking trip didn't go through my Swiss village, I'd have put you up for sure! Enjoy your new job(s), dear Dr.des. Gregory!

[@AJKPenguin]

The Via Alpina testimony is Cloud 9! May you Father get the opportunity to finish it.

[@thinker646]

Schöne Fahrt.

[@salitz91]

We have a Thomistic Institute program here at West Point - it would be awesome to have you out here to speak with the Cadets, Father. I am on Locals if there is interest, but may have our reps reach out!

[@elendil354]

Smart move to not go through the mines of Moria when the passa was snowed over...

[@michaelpanka1776]

Love the beard, Father!

[@kathmediaDeutsch]

Sad to see you leave Europe. Good job on your German though. You even have adopted the rolling swiss "R" :-) Had I known you were coming to Liechtenstein, I would have made sure the red carpet be rolled out for both of you in any of the parishes. In fact, if you did start the VA on the Sücka, you started your Via Alpina in the parish in which I served as a priest for 9 years. In 2018 I did a complete alpine traverse from East to West visiting 220 shrines turning the Via Alpina into the "Via Alpina Sacra". If you ever want to take a group to Europe on pilgrimage in the mountains, let me know. I would be happy to suggest some beautiful shrines that combine mountains, hiking with proper religious destinations (processions included).

[@raymk]

The devolution of Fr. Pine: Last week: short beard This week: full beard Next week: caveman beard

[@elf-lordsfriarofthemeadowl2039]

*Evolution

[@katherinemcmillan5228]

trust in the Lord - if He creates a life He will provide for that life

[@fragwagon]

Thinking of Belloc in Path to Rome

[@micheled8764]

Father, I would like to know how you made it back after you quit the hike half-way. Did someone pick you up and drive you back to the starting point by car?

[@ms.booklover2676]

A pipe and slippers professor! Nothing better!

[@Kelpie119]

Hey Father what’s that dent in your forehead -I have one similar 😊

[@hogandonahue9598]

Love the caveman beard Fr. Pine!

[@bobthebuildest6828]

me: fr gregory will never come to my small town in north carolina fr gregory: yeah so the mens retreat will be in brevard me: !!!

[@newparadigm7444]

One of the most difficult things about being catholic is accepting that nearly every person you know and/or love will burn in incomprehensible agony and terror for all eternity. According to catholic teaching and the saintly accounts and apparitions, heaven is reserved for only a infinitesimal minority, as few as one or two in million with some going to purgatory and the VAST majority falling into hell. God being all knowing and powerful knows nearly all his children are burning in agony but will never free them despite his ability to do so. They will endure this for all eternity, FOREVER, in this state of pure agony and terror. Nearly every you know. Your parents, family, friends, children will endure this fate. And even if you make it to heaven, you will have to live forever in paradise with the knowledge that nearly all those whom you loved are burning in agony and terror FOREVER. They are burning in the same lake of fire if they raped and murdered children or if they had sex with their life long wife before marriage and never made a good confession. But the fact that most people who ever lived, are living or will live will burn forever in hell is ultimately Gods will as he exists beyond space and time and knew this would be the final reality and ultimately nothing happens without him allowing it, so be it.

[@micheled8764]

I don't think you are correct at all... You do not take into account that Mercy is God's most predominant quality. As a devout Catholic, your view of this doesn't resemble my perspective or beliefs at all. So, I encourage you to leave room for the potential that you are incorrect!

[@newparadigm7444]

@@micheled8764 I'm not going by my personal opinion, I'm going by church doctrine, the accepted accounts of the saints and indeed many of the proclamations and visions of the nine accepted apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Nearly all of His children will burn in unbearable agony of hell FOREVER and God will not give any relief. This is his will and so be it.