Distractions in Prayer, Alcoholic Spouses, and Racism in the Church
Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)
Ascension
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🗓️ 16 October 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Fr. Josh answers questions about being distracted and easily bored by daily prayer, what to do if your spouse is a verbally abusive alcoholic, and how to respond to racism in the church. 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!
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| 0:00.0 | What's up and welcome to Ask Father Josh, the podcast market to hear you up. |
| 0:03.8 | Listen to your questions, pray with them, and hopefully respond in such a way that it's helpful |
| 0:08.5 | for you and your walk toward eternity. You can email me your questions at Ask Father Josh at |
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| 0:22.0 | you're first time listener what this does, it helps other people find out about the show. If the show |
| 0:26.8 | is a gift for you then potentially it will be a gift for them as well. |
| 0:35.1 | So today's show. Today's show we have some great great topics. We're going to talk about |
| 0:40.1 | distractions and prayer. We're also going to talk about racism and we're going to talk about |
| 0:47.7 | what to do whenever we're in difficult marriages. Before we get jumping into those topics, |
| 0:55.5 | I want to share with you all a glory story. A glory story this week comes from my time that was |
| 1:01.9 | spent in prayer and a CC in Rome this past week. I was able to go on a really really beautiful |
| 1:11.1 | pilgrimage to a CC and spend a lot of time in prayer. We're saying Francis and St. Clair would |
| 1:15.8 | have spent time praying and some of the first disciples of Francis and it was just so powerful |
| 1:21.2 | to get away and attach from everything here and go there and have time with the Lord and the |
| 1:26.4 | Eucharist and in nature and in the Word. It was beautiful, so easy to enter into prayer while I was |
| 1:35.1 | there. But one of the graces that I experienced was when I came back home. I was able to walk with |
| 1:41.5 | a lot of people. Very quickly a lot of people were ready to meet up with me and they share with |
| 1:46.8 | all the things that God did for them and end them while I was gone. While I was just a way, |
| 1:54.4 | spending time with Jesus, hanging out with him in the Eucharist, growing in my relationship with |
| 1:58.1 | the Lord, prioritizing him, he was doing all the work in my parish without me even being here. |
| 2:05.1 | It was just, man, I recognize I know I'm a necessary member of the Bite of Christ, but I don't have |
| 2:10.1 | to be here for him to work in these people's hearts and in their lives. I can be with Jesus |
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