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Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)

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🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Father Josh shares four things he’s grateful for and wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving! He also encourages you to send all your Advent and Christmas related questions to him at askfrjosh@ascensionpress.com for a special themed episode in the coming weeks.

SHOWNOTES
What I’m Grateful For:
Sickness: being sick allowed me to draw closer to the Lord and spend more time with him
My Brother Priests: they were so kind and helpful to me while I was sick
My community: and its beautiful support of religious vocations
You! Thank you for supporting the show and sending me your wonderful questions and messages

Next week’s episode will be all about Advent, so please send me all of your questions and stories on Advent!

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0:00.0	What's up and welcome to Ask Father Josh the Pack
0:04.0	as you're ready to listen to your questions, pray with them and hopefully respond in such
0:07.7	a way that it's helpful for you and your walk toward eternity and your walk toward becoming
0:12.0	a saint.
0:13.0	For this show, I'm actually not going to do a whole show because I'm just getting off
0:17.3	of being really, really sick.
0:19.4	I was in isolation almost for a week and I was laid up because I got a virus from one
0:29.2	of my parishioners and so it was pretty bad.
0:32.5	It was pretty bad.
0:34.2	But I am recovering and the graces that I was able to spend almost a whole week alone
0:41.8	apart with Jesus with the Word of God and also an adoration of the blessed sacrament.
0:47.6	I had so much time away from people who I love, right?
0:51.1	I love everybody.
0:52.1	I want everybody to be a saint.
0:53.5	But it was just good.
0:54.5	It introvert me was really happy to just be away from everyone else and be alone in
1:01.4	solitude with God with Jesus.
1:03.6	It was absolutely amazing to get to just be with Him and because I was contagious, I couldn't
1:08.9	be around people.
1:09.9	I could not be with people and so I could only be with the Lord.
1:14.1	He and I had a beautiful time in solitude with each other.
1:18.6	So I am very, very grateful for my illness because it gave me some good time with my Christ
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