In this week's episode, Dominican Father Joseph Anthony Kress discusses his own vocation story beginning with a trip to Lourdes in high school where he acquired his habit Rosary that he still carries to this day, why it's more about the knowledge of love than the love of knowledge, what he learned serving as chaplain to undergrad students at UVA, and the popularity of his podcast, 'Godsplaining.'

00:00 Introduction

02:20: From the Blue Ridge to the Big Apple

03:08 Serving as Promoter of the Rosary

03:50 How did 'Godsplaining' podcast begin?

06:20 Learning about the Dominican order

07:40 The desire for a "knowledge of love, not a love of knowledge"

09:20 "Graduate level home-schooling" at Dominican House of Studies

09:45 Getting steeped in the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas

10:46 6 months after ordination, serving as chaplain at UVA

11:40 Learning to be authentic and genuine with college kids

13:15 "Authenticity is the currency of this generation."

14:20 Young adults hungry for the truth about faith

15:45 Needing a priest approachable not relatable

17:30 Fruits of pastoral leadership: weddings & vocations

18:00 Strong interest in cloistered life and religious orders

19:00 The shock of leaving chaplaincy to work in NYC

20:00 Getting back to the spousal-hood of priesthood

23:00 Understanding the 'spirituality of fundraising'

27:30 The work of promoting the Rosary and the Blessed Mother

28:00 Father's own vocation story during his visit to Lourdes

30:25 Fierce faith of those approaching baths with terminal illness

31:00 Witnessing so many accept their fate of death at Lourdes

31:30 Death-bed confessions at a hospital with a fallen away father

34:00 Calling in a Catholic priest in dire moments, exorcism

34:50 "Court-side seats to the Lord's mercy"

35:50 Advice on how to pray the Rosary as a seminarian/priest