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Catholic Answers Live

#11356 When You Pray - Edward Sri

Catholic Answers Live

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Questions Covered: 14:23 – How am I supposed to get answers from God or my guardian angel? 20:37 – When I pray sometimes I feel like I’m talking to myself. How do I approach prayer while feeling like God is listening? 33:21 – How do we do mental prayer correctly? 38:06 – Why does the Our Father say “lead us not into temptation?” It makes it sound like God is the cause of our temptation. The Spanish version doesn’t translate the same? 48:17 – Could you elaborate more on Pope Benedict’s prayer that you just quoted? Where can we find it? 49:46 – Could you talk about how important it is to just “show up” when it comes to prayer life? …

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The world's greatest radio program in all of all time.

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Eight, eight, eight, three, one, eight, seven, eight, eight, four, eight, eight, eight,

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thirty-one, truth. My name is Chris Check. I am president of Catholic Answers. I am not the

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host of Catholic Answers Live. I'm sitting in for the great sigh, Callett, who is in New Zealand,

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bringing the gospel to New Zealand just because Pope Francis said, bring the gospel to the four

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corners of the earth and you can't get much more four-cornerier than the New Zealand, I think.

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My guest, this hour, this second hour is Dr. Edward Sree. There's no H in there, right?

1:00.1

You got it. And so I think I've settled that question. One's for all of you who have been

1:06.4

pronouncing Ed's name incorrectly, Ed or Ted. What's your nickname? What's your diminutive?

1:12.9

Yeah, my nickname is Ted. Ted. But I go by Edward. That's what I published under. And so here's

1:18.4

what happens. When people introduce me at an event or an interview like this, they say, hey,

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this is Ted Sree, then people will call and say, oh, tell your brother I like his books.

1:29.0

I had that happen that so many conferences when Scott Hahn or Curtis Martin,

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somebody a friend introduces me as Ted. They're like, oh, you're the brother of Edward. I really like

1:37.9

his books. All right, we're going to stick with Edward for the entire broadcast for the sole reason

1:42.8

of selling more Edward's free books. That's our reason. 888318784, we're talking about prayer

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this second hour. Any questions you have about what it's called when we pray?

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So any questions that you have about prayer, why do we do it? How do we do it? I find it difficult

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to pray. Set us up here. Ed, what kind of questions are we looking for?

2:09.6

Yeah, well, let me tell you the background of this Edward. Edward.

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Christopher. Yeah, very good. So this book as flows out of a class that I've taught for many years

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with undergrad students at Benedictine College. And then at the Augustan Institute recently,

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