#12475 Do Guardian Angels Influence Non-Believers? Praying to Saints - Joe Heschmeyer

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🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“Do Guardian Angels influence non-believers?” This question opens a discussion on the role of angels in the lives of those who may not share the faith. Additionally, the episode addresses how confident Catholics should be in the belief that John died, the appropriateness of reading scripture during Adoration, and offers a Catholic perspective on praying to saints in light of 1 Timothy 2:5.

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Questions Covered:

25:00 – How confident should Catholics be in the belief that John died?
36:16 – Do Guardian Angels have an influence on the lives of those who don’t believe?
43:17 – Is it proper to read scripture during Adoration?
47:36 – Was the original Thanksgiving Catholic?
52:28 – What is a good Catholic response to 1 Timothy 2:5 for praying to Saints?

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0:35.9	It's not Thanksgiving yet, but I'm in the Thanksgiving spirit. People talk about getting in the Christmas. I'm in the Thanksgiving spirit already. I'm going to We call this preheating the oven. Preheating the oven. Yeah, I'm getting preheated. Joe Hesch, that's the voice of Joe Heschmeier, apologist here at Catholic Answers. He's our guest both hours today. 888-318-7-8-84. He'll also be our guest on Friday. We've got new shows for you all week, so we're not slacking. Well, we're kind of a little bit slacking off in this building today. I got to tell you, Joe. You're all the way over there on the East Coast in Kansas City. I don't know. Somewhere near Florida. Is it near Florida? Yeah, very coastal Kansas City on the coast of the Ozark River. I don't know. It was somewhere near Florida? Yeah, very coastal Kansas City
1:11.8	on the coast of the Ozark River. I don't know where things are. But okay, he, back,
1:16.8	all the way over there. But let me just tell you something here in the building, four people in the
1:22.9	building right now, all in this studio. We have Jeff, who is the, I should say five people in the building.
1:29.5	I apologize. Jeff is a person as well. No, I wasn't leaving you out. Jeff's running the soundboard.
1:34.9	Chavon, who's too, her job title is so far above us here in the radio department, but she came
1:41.9	down to be on the phones.
1:45.2	Luke Bender, almost a human being.
1:46.8	He is the, he's running the video cameras.
1:49.6	He came up.
1:50.5	Yeah.
1:51.4	And then we got Charlie, super fan Charlie, sitting in the seats over there.
1:55.3	That's it.
1:55.9	Other than that, this building is dark right now because everybody had to get home.
2:00.2	And they're, I don't know they're
2:01.9	probably stealing whipped cream they're shooting when when their spouse is not looking they're shooting
2:07.0	the whipped cream right into their mouth and putting it back into refrigerator if I know my colleagues
2:10.6	that's what they're doing right now yeah I mean they seem the type I don't want to profile but
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