E335: Why This Priest Says Social Media Was Built By The Enemy w/Fr Daniel Seo | Lila Rose Show
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🗓️ 17 July 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Fr Daniel Seo should have died--several times. But God spared his life, and changed everything. Today he shares the miracles in his life that led to his priesthood and the great joys he has discovered since then. He also shares how he got started in social media work and gives us advice and warnings about that field.
Fr Daniel’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fr_danielseo/?hl=en
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| 0:00.0 | I should be dead right now multiple times. |
| 0:02.2 | And the fact that I'm not is all my guardian angel. Suspended in midair, I knew I'm done. I prayed and I told God, in your mercy, if you choose to spare me, then I'll give you my life. How did it go from my life is yours God to my life is yours God and I'm gonna be a priest? My dad asked me if I ever thought of being a priest when I was in eighth grade. And without a split second of thought, I told him hell no. |
| 0:25.1 | Towards the end of my college rear, there was one week when God literally called me to be a priest. |
| 0:30.2 | It was so clear, there was no way of backing out. |
| 0:33.8 | Do you think that social media today is God's tool to reach this generation? |
| 0:39.0 | I don't think it is, |
| 0:46.9 | but I think we need to be in it anyway. Whose tool is it then? Father Daniel, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:52.4 | Thank you. Thanks for having Lila. You went to public school your entire life, not Catholic school. |
| 0:55.3 | Was God on your raider back then, or did you even think about him? Yeah, I grew up going to a Korean Catholic center. So I say center because it's |
| 1:02.1 | different from a parish. You're not tied to a certain region. So the priest focuses on a certain |
| 1:08.5 | group and ethnic group in my situation. |
| 1:12.2 | And I grew up going to Sunday Mass. |
| 1:15.8 | And on the weekends, I was actually like living at church because we had Korean school and religious ed. |
| 1:23.2 | So I was very involved, but my formation was really poor. |
| 1:27.4 | And then not going to my formation was really poor. |
| 1:33.2 | And then not going to a Catholic school really affected my catechesis. |
| 1:35.2 | And so it is true. |
| 1:43.1 | I was practicing the faith, but my knowledge of the faith was definitely lacking. |
| 1:46.2 | When you say your catechises was poor, your formation wasn't that great, you didn't have a lot of the knowledge of the faith. What did that mean? What is |
| 1:50.1 | that, what's an example of what that looks like? In the Korean centers, we don't have formal catechists |
| 1:55.8 | who've been trained to teach. So when you have boys and girls that are just kind of on their own, in other words, |
| 2:02.9 | you have the older boys and the older girls that are teaching whatever they think is the |
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