Coping with Grief, Naming Children, and Discerning the Contemplative Life

Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)

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🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Josh answers questions about how to cope with grief from a Catholic perspective, how to choose patron saint names for your child, and how to discern a vocation to the contemplative life.

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"Our Lady is called Our Lady of Sorrows for a reason, because she grieved at the foot of the Cross. Grief is human, healthy, and holy."

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0:00.0	What's up and welcome to Ask Father Josh the pockets where I get to listen to your
0:07.7	questions.
0:08.7	Pray with them and hopefully respond in such a way that it's helpful for you to become
0:11.7	a saint in your walk toward eternity.
0:13.8	Here's the show goes.
0:14.8	You hit me up at three to five questions dealing with anything and everything from
0:18.2	morality to spirituality, relationship advice, evangelization, discipleship, cataclycases,
0:23.6	justice, charity and the list goes on.
0:25.8	I would then sit with your questions.
0:27.6	Pray with them and hopefully respond in such a way that it's helpful for you to become
0:30.6	a saint in your walk toward eternity.
0:33.4	But here is my disclaimer.
0:34.6	My advice is not perfect because I'm not perfect, right?
0:37.6	So I'm not in fallible.
0:39.0	I'm not without error.
0:40.0	Therefore the advice I share with you, the response I give to you might not be good for
0:43.7	you.
0:44.7	If that's the case, please reject whatever it is that I say that doesn't help you to grow
0:47.8	in your relationship with Jesus.
0:49.4	But if my advice is helpful to difficult, I really want to encourage you to lean into Jesus
0:53.8	Christ in prayer, study, fellowship, worship so that God can give you the grace that you
0:57.1	may need to fulfill the demands of discipleship over time in your walk toward eternity of
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