How Martha Found Freedom from Anxiety

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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How do you handle the stress and anxieties of life? Does it frequently overwhelm you and rob you of your peace? Martha is a character from Scripture that many can relate to. She struggled with anxiety and became overwhelmed. Dr. Edward Sri examines the stories of Martha from the Bible and reveals what we can learn from her about overcoming anxiety and finding interior peace.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life.
0:07.0	Do you ever find yourself anxious and troubled by many things? It could be things
0:18.4	that work, it could be something going on in a certain relationship, maybe something
0:21.9	happened in family life, what do we do when we find ourselves
0:24.9	stressed out, overwhelmed, and especially anxious? I think there's a great saint, the great saint that can help us in those moments in life in her name is Martha.
0:35.2	You know the story of St. Martha.
0:36.8	Jesus rebukes her for being anxious and troubled by many things and yet she was changed. She was freed from those anxieties. She was
0:46.6	freed from being weighed down by the burdens of life and the various crosses and
0:51.6	trials that come up.
0:52.6	How did she find that interior freedom?
0:55.3	How did she live in peace?
0:56.2	How did she live in trust of God's provenance and care
0:59.7	for her life?
1:00.6	How did she come to find freedom from anxiety? That's where you take a look at in
1:05.3	this week's podcast. So welcome to all things Catholic. I'm your host Edward Sri and
1:10.0	it has been so fun getting to meet so many of my listeners out there.
1:14.3	Thank you for coming up at the various conferences I've been presenting at here this
1:17.3	Lent, whether it was in St. Louis or Monroe in Peacht,
1:20.8	Georgia, really excited. And I'm hoping to get to meet many of you up in the Twin Cities area in the great state of Minnesota, because I'm going to be there later this week, March 13th or 14th in St. Michael's Parish, just north of the Twin Cities and I'll be on the 15th
1:34.8	down in the new Olde diocese for their Eucharistic Congress on Friday during the
1:40.0	day with the school teachers and parish leaders but then I'll be with all the Lee people in the evening down there all together on Friday night on the 15th.
1:49.0	If you're in the Miami area, I look forward to seeing you as well March 20th and 21st in Columbia, South Carolina.
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