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#11086 Ask a Priest - Fr. Samuel Keyes

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Questions Covered: 02:07 – getting my marriage blessed by the church, should i go through the premarital counseling process? 07:22 – is it always a mortal sin to smoke mamajuana? Resource: https://www.catholic.com/video/what-is-the-churchs-position-on-marijuana 11:26 – What is your advice for discerning marriage with someone who comes from a family with a history of divorce and how to talk to potential children about divorce? 15:29 – what is a sin against the Holy Spirit? Resource: https://www.catholic.com/audio/caf/what-is-the-sin-against-the-holy-spirit 19:28 – What do we do with used bibles and rosaries? 22:31 – how do you approach the question from non-Catholics about asking for the saints intercession? 29:55 – does Father find it difficult to live out his priestly vocation not living in community with fellow priests? 34:58 – Why is it a sin to smoke mamajuana but not drink alcohol? 39:58 – how can someone in heaven look down on a sinful person– does that taint the glory of heaven? 46:24 – commenting on the power of praying for Mary’s intercession 48:08 – if an adult is not baptized why should they wait for Easter versus getting baptized right away? Why can (but shouldn’t) a lay person baptize someone else? …

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Catholic Cancer's Live. I am Sy Kiliger host and our guest, he's back

0:22.2

for another hour, Father Sam Kees, Chaplin here at Catholic Answers, in addition to

0:26.9

about a million other things he does. Thanks for coming back, Father. And for staying awake.

0:30.2

You're welcome. I'm awake. Do you get any, do you get any like radio adrenaline or anything

0:36.1

like that? I'm a little bit, a little bit. Like how much does a priest with all those

0:40.8

children sleep? I'm just, I just, like a typical light. Not well. Yeah. I remember Darren

0:47.8

saying one time, like he slept six hours one night and he was like, I don't know when

0:52.0

the last time I slept six hours straight was. Yeah, we've been okay lately. We're, yeah,

0:57.8

the baby, the youngest one is about 18 months or something. Or something. That's a true

1:04.0

father of five. I don't know how old that one is. Yeah, his grandmother keeps up with

1:10.9

it much more than I think his parents do. But the, yeah, he generally is, you know, not

1:18.1

waking us up in the middle of the night. It's usually the older ones who are having issues.

1:23.0

Do you know sometimes you fall asleep, you fall asleep right in the middle of your homily

1:26.0

and we just all go out and do stuff. And then we don't wake up. We come back when we'll

1:29.7

think you're waking back up. And we just continue the mass when you. That's true charity

1:33.3

and love. We're like, break, break from mass. Everybody go do some work for a while. Father

1:38.1

awake up. That's not really true father. That's never happened. Let's go down to Florida.

1:42.6

Xavier in Florida, listening on the Catholic Answers live app. Thanks for waiting, Xavier.

1:47.6

Go ahead with your question for father. Hello. Hi, gentlemen. Hello. So I, we, hello.

1:57.3

Hello. Go ahead. Hello, yes. Oh, yeah. We're all set for you. Go ahead, Xavier. Sorry.

2:03.7

I got confused. I don't know what I was doing there. Go ahead. We can hear you fine.

2:07.9

So we got married out. We got married civilly outside the church. We are Protestants for

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