79: Learning to Say "I Need God" (with Fr. Michael O'Loughlin)
Do Something Beautiful
Leah Darrow
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Leah gets Fr. Michael O'Loughlin to explain what asceticism even is anyway, and why it's not just for seasons like Lent and Advent, but something we can (and should!) get in the habit of practicing all year. It's not just about detachment, but about coming to recognize how much we need God. Father Michael gives some great advice about learning how to start with small actions and grow into greater and greater freedom.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends welcome back to the Do Something Beautiful Podcast. I am your host Leodaro and |
| 0:07.1 | today we get to speak with Father Michael O'Lachlan. Father Michael Lachlan, you may be familiar with him. He's been on my podcast many times before. |
| 0:15.9 | He's a dear friend of mine. He's also pastor at the Byzantine Proto Cathedral of St Mary in Sherman Oaks, California, which is basically just Los Angeles. |
| 0:25.0 | And he's also, if you are one of my Lux ladies, then you know him quite well because he is the chaplain for our new Lux app which you can find out more at the Lux University.com |
| 0:37.1 | but he does an amazing amazing work there as well just a pretty all around cool dude. If you are one of my |
| 0:45.4 | looks ladies I you have told me many many times that Father Michael Lachlan is one of |
| 0:49.7 | your favorite things that we do inside the Luxap outside of the prayer and the community and all the courses inside Lutzue. |
| 0:55.0 | But he comes on almost every single night and face with us outside of all of his other duties and giving a Sunday life gospel reflection. So he's a pretty |
| 1:05.3 | great guy, a great holy priest, very very good friend and today we're actually |
| 1:11.6 | going to discuss a topic that we've been trying to discuss for a long time, which is asceticism. |
| 1:19.0 | And it's funny that it's taking us this long to talk about it. |
| 1:21.0 | You think there might be a problem in our life of why we can't talk about it you think it might be a problem in our life |
| 1:22.8 | of why we can't talk about it we'll get to that but we're going to talk about |
| 1:28.1 | asceticism and why it's unpopular why it should be popular and why we need it now more than ever. So welcome to the |
| 1:40.1 | podcast Father Michael. Hello, Leah, hello all. |
| 1:44.0 | Good to be here. |
| 1:45.0 | Oh, it's so good to have you back, Father. |
| 1:47.0 | Okay, so we are, we're talking about asceticism. |
| 1:51.0 | Let's just right off the bat, that so we all know what it is and where we can go from that point. |
| 1:59.0 | Sure. |
| 2:00.0 | So asceticism is at its core. |
| 2:04.0 | The word actually is related to the word for athletic training. |
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