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#122010 What If You Pray and Still Feel No Response From God? - Jimmy Akin

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 24 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

You’ve invited God into your heart, prayed sincerely, and still feel silence. What does that mean? We explore how to respond when God seems distant—even when you’re doing everything right. Join The CA Live Club Newsletter: Click Here Invite our apologists to speak at your parish! Visit Catholicanswersspeakers.com Please help support our mission by donating! Catholicanswersradio.com Questions Covered: 01:01 – I kind of want to convert but Eucharistic ministers’ hands touching hands and tongues and sharing the chalice are so yucky!  What can I do about this hang-up?  12:49 – Do you have a response to Dr Mark Miravalle’s response about Medjugorje?  18:22 – I heard you state on a recent podcast that you have a particular interest in linguistics, so I’m hoping you can comment on the following issue.  Why are some Old Testament names so familiar in modern English and others so foreign to us?  Is it a matter of translation, the importance of the person, or something else?  24:45 – What’s the best evidence that psi phenomenon exist?  39:50 – If Angels have been around since creation, but they don’t reproduce, does that mean that it’s the same number of angels since the beginning? No more and no less?   44:52 – How do those who desperately want a relationship with God, including prayers inviting all three persons of God to come into their heart, deal properly with an apparent lack of response from God.   48:21 – How can ‘days off purgatory’ be understood in the hereafter since we live in a different ‘time zone’ AND isn’t the timeframe of the purging a discretionary matter ONLY God can determine?   50:52 – The Copenhagen experiment where they shot photons through slits (I think I have that right?) and the particles behaved differently when they were observed vs unobserved – does this offer any proof for God? Also how does this work with Weeping Angels?

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Catholic Answers live, Jimmy Aiken with us this hour.

0:19.9

Of course, the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World and the Jimmy Aiken podcast and

0:24.2

you know them from a lot of other things.

0:26.4

Sometimes we get all the questions, not all the questions, but lots of questions together

0:30.1

from the internet and we ask them of Jimmy, and that's what we're going to continue to do

0:34.7

this hour.

0:35.2

Thanks for coming back, Jimmy.

0:37.4

Oh, my pleasure. Happy to be here. I'm really glad to see this next question comes from

0:41.4

High King Turgon, the King of Gondland. Don't get to hear, yeah, don't get to hear from him too often.

0:46.9

No, especially since the big war. It's nice to hear from Turgon again. And Turgon says this is from a friend. All right. Another elf wants to know.

0:57.3

I kind of want to convert. Oh, the friend says, I kind of want to convert, but Eucharistic

1:01.8

minister's hands touching hands and tongues and sharing the chalice are so yucky. What can I do about

1:07.6

this hang up? Get over it.

1:13.5

I mean, that's kind of the fundamental answer,

1:17.5

but I can build that out a little bit to try to be of more help,

1:18.6

which is what I want to be.

1:24.9

Now, High King Turgon's friend says that he's concerned about Eucharistic minister's hands.

1:27.0

And I'm not sure if... that he's concerned about Eucharistic ministers' hands.

1:34.4

And I'm not sure if there's a kind of preliminary issue I need to address.

1:38.0

Now, the proper term is not Eucharistic ministers, but what most people mean by that term is extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, as opposed to the ordinary ministers,

1:46.9

which are priests, bishops, priests, deacons, and instituted acolytes. And so I'm not sure,

1:56.0

this is the first issue. I'm not sure if King Turgon's friend is drawn a distinction here between the hands of

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