Dreams: Meaning & Church Teaching
Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
The Marian Fathers
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🗓️ 23 September 2023
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Dreams are as old as mankind itself, are biblical, and are part of everyone's life. But what do they mean? Does the Church actually have any teaching about this topic? Are dreams more psychological or can they be messages from God? Hear Fr. Chris Alar explain this important topic.
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| 0:00.0 | So thank you everybody for joining us. I'm Father Chris. I'm honored to have you with us for another |
| 0:05.6 | explaining the faith talk. I think this is like our 148th or something like that. And so praise be to God. |
| 0:13.1 | We're excited to have you with us. And today we have, I feel, one of the most interesting topics, and that is dreams. |
| 0:25.2 | What do dreams mean? And I've done a lot of research on this. I've talked to some experts. And also, what does the church teach on dreams? Do we |
| 0:32.1 | always follow them? Do we never follow them? Sometimes follow them. And so we're going to share all that with you today. |
| 0:39.4 | I'm really excited about this topic because it affects everyone. |
| 0:42.7 | And as you can see, I have my sleeping St. Joseph here. |
| 0:46.1 | We're going to show you how you can get that. |
| 0:48.9 | And so we do ask that myself included to turn our volumes down on our cell phones and praise me to god that |
| 0:56.4 | you're with us and we're getting to you know we've had a few videos move down pulled down from our |
| 1:04.2 | web page so you can always also find us on divine mercy plus.org divine mercy plusorg. Let us begin with a prayer in the name of the |
| 1:14.3 | Father and to the Son, into the Holy Spirit. Amen. Heavenly Father, we ask you send the Holy Spirit down |
| 1:20.8 | upon us to open our minds and hearts. Share your wisdom with us. Allow us to discern your will, |
| 1:30.0 | be it in through other people, through dreams, |
| 1:34.7 | or however that you speak to us, but mostly through the church and the scriptures. |
| 1:41.5 | And Mother Mary, we ask that you guide us in our journey and always help us to your son. |
| 1:46.6 | We ask all this through Christ, our Lord. Amen. Name of the Father, |
| 1:52.2 | into the Son, into the Holy Spirit. Amen. Okay, so you saw in your slide. Today we're talking about dreams. This is a topic. I was shocked. I could find so little information out there on the |
| 1:59.9 | web about the Catholic viewpoint. There's just a couple |
| 2:03.4 | videos and a few articles. It doesn't really justify the importance of this. So we're going to |
| 2:10.7 | talk about it today. Dreams. Okay, each night during sleep, and we all encounter this, right, we enter into an altered state of consciousness, all right? |
| 2:25.0 | As our dreams subject us to amazing things, switches of times and places. We can have dreams about the past, we can have |
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