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Hey there, Spouts. Today is Friday, September 23rd, 2022. Today is also the feast day of an incredible saint, Saint Padre Pio, who was an Italian priest, beloved in his own time, who displayed remarkable holiness.

He had the wounds of Christ, we refer to as stigmata.

He also was able to read people's minds and the confessional.

Beyond these things, he just was marked with incredible personal

holiness and just an attachment to Jesus Christ. Many miracles have been attributed to him,

and he is a powerful example for us all. Now this week on the Catholic Express podcast,

we are, of course, still in September under the patronage of

Blessed Carlo Vakudis. So let's once again pray the morning offering, which we are memorizing.

In the name of the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Amen. O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary,

I offer you my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day, for all the

intentions of your sacred heart and union with the holy sacrifice of the Mass throughout the

world, for the salvation of souls, the reparation of sins, the reunion of all Christians,

and in particular for the intentions of the Holy Father this month, amen.

So we have been talking about distraction,

and there's one final piece that we need to talk about.

We have already talked about how when we give into distraction,

we are allowing our heart to be divided, especially if we're giving into distraction during

prayer. We're telling Jesus, you can't have all of my heart because I'm going to let this part

of my mind think about that. We also talked about some simple ways to fight distraction, that when a random

thought pops into our mind that that is not a sin, but we have a moment to choose then, whether

we're going to give into this distraction or we're going to fight it. And we fight distraction by

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