#12249 From the Early Church to Calvary: Catholic Insights on Worship, Recovery, and Scripture - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Can Catholics attend 12-step recovery programs? Are we less spiritually zealous today than the early Church? What’s the proper posture for laity during the Our Father at Mass? And how do ancient texts like the Book of Jubilees align with Catholic tradition on Adam’s burial? In this episode of Catholic Answers Live, we dive into these thoughtful questions from listeners across the country. Discover what the Church teaches about appropriate behavior during Mass, explore how Catholic spirituality has changed over time, and examine intriguing connections between biblical traditions and apocryphal writings.

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Questions Covered:

07:08 – Is it appropriate for a Catholic to attend 12-step recovery programs?
20:57 – Compared to the early Church and the saints, have modern Catholics lost some of their spiritual fervor?
29:07 – Are laypeople supposed to raise their hands during the Our Father at Mass? Is there a resource that explains what’s appropriate for the laity?
46:30 – The Book of Jubilees says Adam was buried next to his son and had a proper funeral. How does this relate to the tradition that Adam’s skull is buried under Calvary?

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0:35.1	I am president at Catholic Cancer sitting in for the great Cy Kellett, who is off with his lovely wife, Missy, celebrating 30 years of marriage.
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1:01.1	Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, the great Jimmy Aiken. Welcome, Jimmy.
1:06.5	Hey there, how's it going, Sykelet, Chris Chegg. It's a reflex.
1:11.3	It is.
1:12.4	Right.
1:12.9	Well, alas, I will struggle to do half as well as Cy does in this role.
1:19.5	But it's actually pretty easy with you.
1:21.0	You all do, you do the heavy lifting.
1:23.6	Well, I do what I can.
1:25.9	I sometimes throw it to sigh to clarify or to illustrate certain points.
1:34.3	So I might throw part of the question to you occasionally.
1:37.1	You can try that.
1:38.3	We'll see how badly that fails, but that'll be good for my humility anyway.
1:42.8	It doesn't fail with sigh.
1:44.2	I tend to toss the easy stuff, and it breaks things up a little bit.
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