Fasting for Beginners, Spiritual Dryness, and the Engagement Season

Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)

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🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Fr. Josh answers questions about the importance of fasting and how to start fasting for beginners, how to navigate spiritual dryness, and how to prepare for the vocation of marriage as an engaged couple.

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0:00.0	What's up and welcome to Ask Father Jazz, the podcast bugget to listen to your questions,
0:08.4	pray with them and hopefully respond in such a way that it's helpful for you to become
0:11.9	a saint in your walk toward eternity.
0:14.4	Here's to the show goes, you hit me up with 3 to 5 questions dealing with anything and
0:17.6	everything from a reality to spirituality, relationship advice, evangelization, discipleship,
0:23.4	cataclycces, justice, charity, the list goes on.
0:26.9	I wouldn't spend time with your questions.
0:28.8	I pray with them, I'll study and hopefully I will respond to you in such a way that
0:33.6	it's helpful for you to become a saint in your walk toward eternity.
0:37.0	But my disclaimer is this, I'm not perfect.
0:39.8	Therefore the advice that I share with you, the responses I give to you might not be good
0:43.3	for you.
0:44.3	If that's the case, then I really want to encourage you to reject whatever it is that I say
0:48.5	that is not helping you to grow in holiness, that is not helping you to grow in your relationship
0:51.8	with Jesus Christ.
0:52.8	But if my advice is helpful or difficult, then I really want to encourage you to lean into
0:58.1	God so that God can give you the grace over time to fulfill the demands of discipleship.
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