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#11096 Can a Demon Intercept My Prayers? - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Open Forum – Questions Covered: 04:22 – What can I tell my mom who makes comments about hypothetically wanting to be taken off life support instead of suffering? 13:39 – Who really was Mary Magdalene? The woman who was delivered from demons or the woman caught in adultery? 15:39 – Regarding Pope Francis’ recent statements on the TLM and German bishops. It seems imprudent with how he handles both situations? What can we lay people do in a situation like this? 19:41 – Can a person change one’s confirmation name? 22:05 – Mt 27:52-53. It seems like a singular event and why isn’t it recorded in the other gospels? 24:37 – My friend recently converted to Christianity. How do I explain to my friend the need to confess our sins to a priest? 32:11 – Sorry but Jesus didn’t create the Catholic Church. Show me in the Bible please. He told his disciples to go spread the Good News. 39:13 – Is it possible for a demon to intercept a petition prayer? 44:43 – Is the Easter Vigil Mass mandatory to attend? 46:29 – How would one respond to the claim that you’re not supposed to baptize babies because Jesus was baptized at 30? 50:02 – How specific does a person need to be in the confessional? If you remember a sin while the priest is giving absolution, what should you do? …

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Welcome back, Cather Gants was live on Sci-Cal at your host.

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Thanks so much for being here with us during this holy week.

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Tomorrow, holy Thursday, good Friday, then Friday will be good Friday, and we're heading

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on towards Easter.

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As many people know, we do talk about it here on the Easter Vigil, is when many people,

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not all of the people who come into the Catholic Church come in on the Easter Vigil, what many

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do.

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So, please, as you're saying, your prayers this week, remember those who are coming into

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the church.

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It can be a time of all kinds of different emotions, sometimes challenges, and they are in need

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of our prayers.

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Please remember them.

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You're welcome to call this hour.

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It's an open forum.

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If you've got a question, we'll try to get you an answer, and we've got just one of

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the best answers here with us to do that.

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Jimmy Aiken, of course, Senior Apologist here at Catholic Answers, the proprietor of Jimmy

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Aiken's mysterious world.

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Hello, Jimmy Aiken.

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Hello, Cyril Kelly.

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And Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world, I know you told me yesterday, but what's dropping

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