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Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)

How Do We Overcome Deeply Rooted Vices?

Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)

Ascension

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🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It sometimes feels impossible to stop the deeply rooted sins of the heart. Fr. Mark-Mary joins Fr. Josh to offer advice and encouragement on overcoming persistent vices and allowing God to love us in our messiness.

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Sometimes, God doesn't perfect us right away because he wants us to experience his love while we are still imperfect.

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0:00.0

What's up and welcome to Ask Father Josh, the podcast why I get to listen to your questions, pray with them, and hopefully respond in such a way that is helpful for you to become a saint in your walk toward eternity here.

0:13.7

So the show goes, you hit me up with your questions, dealing with anything and everything from relationship advice, vices, virtues, evangelization, discipleship, catechesis, morality. The list goes on. I will sit with your

0:25.9

questions, whatever they are. I pray with them, study them, have conversations with

0:29.8

friends who I trust, and then try to respond in a way that gives you hopefully

0:35.0

wisdom inspired by the Holy Spirit to help you to grow in your

0:38.0

relationship with God, and freedom. The advice that I share is not helpful, you are certainly

0:42.3

free to disregard it. If it is helpful and difficult, I just encourage you to lean into prayer

0:47.6

and scripture and the sacrament so that God can continue to give you the graces that you need

0:51.8

to fulfill the demands of discipleship.

0:59.0

You can hit me up the own questions, comments, and critiques at www. www.com. slash askfatherjosh ask father Josh and also at ask father Josh at ascensionpress.

1:04.4

Dot com throughout this season, I'm going to be joined by a number of my friends as we talk about

1:08.5

the seven daily sins.

1:09.9

And the reason why we're talking about

1:11.1

the seven deadly sins is because I recently wrote a book for Ascension called Pocket Guide

1:16.8

to Overcoming the Seven Deadly Sins. Today I am joined by my buddy, my friend in Christ, CFR,

1:24.0

Father Mark Mary. Father Mark, Mary, what's up, bro?

1:25.9

What's up, Father Josh? Great to be back here with you.

1:29.2

Congrats on publishing another book here.

1:32.2

Thanks, bro.

1:32.7

Yeah, this one's, it was a gift to write.

1:35.4

As you know, we've talked about in the past whenever we oftentimes do these projects

1:39.5

with ascension, they end up being a blessing to us.

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