#11300 Ask a Priest - Fr. Matthew Spencer

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🗓️ 26 August 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Question Covered: 04:53 – How do I respond to someone who asks why we pray to Mary? 10:05 – How do we move forward from infidelity and regain the trust that was lost? 14:56 – The bible says to give to Cesar what is Cesars. Who decides what belongs to Cesar? 18:59 – I grew up a reformed Baptist and looking into Catholicism. Where do I start? 30:36 – My daughter has been missing for 10 months. How do I keep my faith during this hard time? 34:33 – I had a dream about being reprimanded by a priest for not holding the patent correctly during mass. What should I make of this? What are your thoughts on a general confession? 40:54 – How do I reconcile the two bible verses: picking up your cross daily and taking up Jesus’ yoke because it’s light? 45:38 – I want to encourage Carson, I was on a similar path and now I’m Catholic. 50:10 – Parable of the talents had 100% success rate how would this apply for those who aren’t always successful? …

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Catholic Dance with Live. If you've got a question, you've been wanting
0:20.5	to ask a Catholic priest to this hour is for you ask a priest. Father Matthew Spencer
0:25.1	is our guest. 888-318-7884 is our number. There's a couple lines open so it's a good time to call.
0:32.1	Maybe you have a theological question, but maybe you have something that's more pastoral,
0:36.4	something about family life or prayer life or the sacraments. Whatever it is, if it's an appropriate
0:41.8	question for a Catholic priest, 888-318-7884. Father Matthew Spencer was a long-timer radio host
0:51.0	himself on the Mac of the Heart Radio Network and then that became the relevant radio network.
0:57.1	But now he works in what ministers, I should say, as the head of the Oblits of St. Joseph here in
1:04.8	the United States. And I can't remember what the name of the head is, so I will say Kamandante of
1:11.0	the Oblits of St. Isaac. Is that correct? Kamandante? I like it. I'll go with it. I mean...
1:15.8	Are you willing to be called Kamandante Matthew Spencer? You're the third calling all of my brother
1:20.3	priest, my comrades. What do you call, what is your, I'm sorry that I forgot it. That's quite
1:26.9	right, the provincial, that's the provincial. No, I definitely go with Kamandante. Bring that up
1:33.0	at the next meeting. See if you can get a change. I should get a hat. Yeah, you're definitely
1:37.6	going to need a hat with that one. 888-318-7884 is the number, triple eight 31 truth.
1:45.5	So how long have you been a priest? I never asked you that on the year. How long have you been
1:49.3	even doing this? Just last month, I celebrated my 14th anniversary. Oh, congratulations.
1:55.5	14 years, yeah. Yeah, thank you. It's flown by. It's been the greatest joy of my life,
2:02.2	so I have to say. And it has not been, it was not something I anticipated. I really didn't,
2:09.0	in my high school and college years, really did not imagine myself as a priest. And then even when
2:14.2	I started to feel this tug towards religious life and later the priesthood, I resisted.
2:22.2	You know, I wasn't really open because I, to be honest, I didn't think it would make me happy.
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