How to Respond to Spiritual Drought

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever experience dryness in your spiritual life? Throughout our journey in the spiritual life, there may be times without consolation or feeling the nearness of God. Dr. Sri explains why this might happen and how to respond to it.

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Sometimes, our wounds are so deep and our attachments are so strong that God has to step in in a profound way.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life.
0:14.0	What's happening when your prayer life is dry?
0:18.1	When God just doesn't seem close to you in prayer when you don't really enjoy doing spiritual
0:23.0	things like you used to, maybe you've had those thoughts before where you're saying
0:26.7	yourself, I used to love going to pray, and I remember getting so much out of it.
0:30.5	I remember going to the Adoration Chapel or being in a prayer group, and now doing prayers
0:36.7	is like a chore.
0:37.7	It's just hard.
0:38.7	I don't get as much out of it anymore.
0:42.2	It doesn't feel like God is close.
0:44.6	My prayer life who seems so dry, it seems so arid.
0:48.4	Is it worth me going to pray anymore?
0:51.5	If you've ever had those thoughts, I just want to encourage you once you know that you're
0:54.5	not alone, that this is what happens in life of almost all faithful Christians who
0:59.9	really love Jesus, who are committed to pray.
1:03.6	They pray every day, and then eventually they reach a time when the prayer gets hard,
1:08.2	it gets difficult, it gets dry, and there's different seasons in someone's prayer life
1:13.4	where that may happen.
1:14.8	But sometimes it's a more poignant darkness that someone is going through, a real painful
1:20.9	emptiness in prayer.
1:23.0	Why does that happen?
1:24.9	I don't want us to think of it as God is moving away.
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