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Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)

Addicted to Social Media, Helping the Homeless, and Communion on the Tongue

Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)

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🗓️ 20 November 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Josh answers questions about overcoming addictions to social media and phones, helping the homeless, and whether receiving Communion on the tongue or hand is better. If you have a question, comment, or response for Fr. Josh, email us at [email protected]. You may hear your question or comment in an upcoming podcast episode!

Glory Story (2:28)

Listener Feedback (6:41)

Helping the Homeless (10:00)

Communion on the Tongue (15:55)

Addicted to Social Media (22:02)

Universal Points (30:17)

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0:00.0

What's going on and welcome to Ask Father Josh, the podcast why I get to hear you out,

0:04.2

listen to your questions, and then hopefully respond in such a way that is helpful for you

0:09.0

in your walk toward eternity. The reality is this, your life, my life, our lives are very messy

0:15.9

and there's not always going to be that easy, philanthropic link, go to Catholic answer to

0:20.9

life's problems. And so the purpose of this show is for me to pray with whatever it is you send me

0:27.0

so that I can accompany you to Jesus and together we can respond to Jesus' invitation for us to

0:33.0

become saints. I can't promise you that my advice will always be helpful, but I can assure you that

0:38.9

when I pray with your questions, dealing with everything from morality to spirituality to

0:43.7

apologetics, discipleship, evangelization, catacletes, whenever I pray with them, I do spend a lot

0:50.0

of time for the Lord and then also in conversation with other people and in study. But even still,

0:55.9

I'm imperfect and I'm broken and so I might not respond in the way that is best for you to become

1:00.8

a saint, right? And if that's the case, if my advice is not helpful for you to grow in virtue and

1:06.0

holiness, then I want to give you the freedom to just straight up reject it because I'm imperfect

1:11.1

and I don't always perceive what God is saying very clearly. However, if the advice is helpful for

1:17.6

you, then I really want to invite you to lean into Jesus and ask him to give you the grace to live

1:24.4

out the demands of discipleship and your walk toward eternity. I really want to encourage you to

1:31.4

send me your questions, your comments, your critiques of this episode and for future episodes,

1:37.2

and ask Father Josh at ascensionpress.com. Let's ask Fr Josh at ascensionpress.com and also

1:45.6

please rate us and review us on iTunes and on other podcasts outlets because that helps

1:52.0

other people find out about the show. If this shows up for you, it could potentially be helpful

1:56.2

for them as well. Today's topics are about helping the homeless and just questions about what are

2:03.5

our obligations because we know that Jesus seems pretty clear in the gospel that he is present in the

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