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Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)

How Can I Be Happy in This World?

Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Violence and war are just some of the evils that are present in our world today. If you watch the news or scroll on social media, it can seem like there is nothing but bad in the world. So, how can you be happy in such a place? Is it possible or even right to be happy? Fr. Josh addresses this question and offers advice on how to find happiness even in the storms of life.

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When we focus more on the storm than on Jesus, we will be overcome with anxiety.

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Today's show we're going to talk about happy because I'm happy, clapp along if you feel like

1:00.1

something, something, something, and we're going to talk about happiness, right?

1:04.3

And how can we be happy whenever we live in a world that has so many injustices in a world

1:10.3

where there's so much obvious evil, where there's so much division?

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How can we be happy?

1:15.7

But before we begin today, really good question about happiness and how can we experience

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