All About Lent: What's Best for Your Soul This Year?

Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)

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🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Josh answers the question, “What’s the point of Lent?" He then asks a set of questions to help you determine which Lenten practices will be best for your soul this year.

Snippet from the Show

When we enter into the Lenten season, we enter into spiritual warfare. Expect Satan to discourage you, but don’t talk to the snake … go directly to Jesus.

Glory Story (3:10)

What’s the Point of Lent? (5:40)

Figuring Out What Your Soul Needs This Lent

Add more silence to your day: give God some extra time to speak to your heart, teaching you to become more like him (we become like those we hangout with).
Choose your fast wisely: make sure you’re picking a fast that will really challenge you and that you’ll feel all of Lent.
Stop hitting the snooze button: replace those extra few minutes of sleep with a few minutes of prayer each morning.
Get off social media: we can waste a lot of time on social media that could be spent with God or our brothers and sisters. Kick that habit during Lent.
Make sure you have accountability: find a close friend you can be vulnerable with and hold each other accountable this Lent.
Replace a good for a greater good: whatever you’re fasting from, find a prayer or spiritual practice to replace it with during Lent.

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Pocket Guide to Adoration by Fr. Josh Johnson
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0:00.0	What's up and welcome to Ask Father Jazz to podcast.
0:03.0	I get to listen to your questions, pray with them and hopefully respond in such a way
0:06.7	that it's helpful for you to become a saint in your walk toward eternity.
0:10.5	Here's how the show goes.
0:11.5	You hit me up with three to five questions for episode dealing with anything and everything
0:15.4	from prayer, the interior life, evangelization, catechesis, doctrine, dogma, relationship,
0:21.0	advice, morality, etc.
0:22.7	The list goes on and I was been timing to your questions, pray with them, study and
0:27.4	hopefully respond in such a way that it's helpful for you to become a saint.
0:31.7	However, the disclaimer is this.
0:34.2	I'm not perfect, I'm not impalable and every now and then my advice might not be good
0:38.2	for you.
0:39.2	If that's the case, then I want to give you the freedom to reject.
0:42.8	Whatever it is that I say that is not help you to grow in holiness, to grow in virtue,
0:47.5	to conform your life to Jesus Christ crucified to think with the mind of Christ and feel
0:51.6	with the heart of Christ.
0:52.9	However, if my advice is helpful for you, the difficult that I really want to encourage
0:58.2	you to lean deeper into relationship with Jesus so that Christ can give you the grace
1:04.2	that you may need to fulfill the demands of discipleship in your walk toward eternity.
1:10.4	You can hit me up with your own questions, comments and critiques on today's episode
1:14.2	and past shows and ask for the Josh at ascensionpress.com.
1:17.6	You can also rate us and review us on iTunes and other pockets, formats whenever you do
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