Do Not Be Anxious

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Do you easily get anxious about the concerns of this world, or about the future? Drawing from the work of St. Thomas Aquinas, Dr. Sri breaks down the roots of an anxious heart, and how we can overcome anxiety so we can live in Jesus’ peace.

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There are two demons that keep us from living in the present moment. The demon that reminds us of our past and fills our hearts with regrets, and the demon of “what if?”, that fills us with fear about the future.
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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life.
0:14.4	So you're driving down the highway on a beautiful day or you're running errands in your car
0:18.2	around your town and then suddenly it happens.
0:22.0	That little yellow light comes on, that yellow light on your dashboard, that yellow light
0:26.9	known as the check engine light.
0:30.3	You see that light go on in your heart sinks because you know it's telling you that there's
0:35.1	a significant problem potentially with your car that you need to get your engine checked
0:40.3	out.
0:41.3	It's an urgent matter.
0:42.3	You got to look into this or there could be more serious problems with your car.
0:47.0	If you've ever had that experience of seeing that check engine light go on and then you
0:50.8	have to go take care of this issue with your car quickly, I would suggest that there's
0:55.2	a parallel in the spiritual life that God gives us a check engine light in our soul.
1:01.3	And it's an experience that many of us have.
1:04.8	Sometimes we have it every week, maybe every day, every once in a while in life.
1:08.7	It may happen where you notice you're anxious about something.
1:12.3	You're really anxious about something.
1:13.6	You're not just concerned, you're not just thinking something through, you're anxious
1:18.6	about it.
1:19.6	It's really weighing on you.
1:21.3	There's this tension in your soul.
1:23.1	You're not at peace and you've got this anxiety overtaking you.
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