Hi, I'm Father Jim Martin and Jesuit priest.

Much of my ministry focuses on helping people to pray.

One of my own daily prayer practices is the examine, which helps me to pay attention to how

God is working in my daily life.

On days when I'm feeling joyful or at peace, and on days when I'm feeling anxious or worried I can always rely on the

examine to ground me. Now I'm excited to share 10 brand new sessions of the

examine with you in a new collaboration between America Media and the Ritual app.

Join me in praying the examine. Download the Ritual app to start listening for free. Hello and welcome to Jesuitical, a podcast by the Young Hip and Lay editors of America

Media.

That lay part means we aren't Jesuits, but we work with them.

Join us each week for a smart Catholic take on faith, culture and the news often over drinks I'm

Ashley and I'm joined by Zach Davis. Hey good to be with you Ashley excited

for the special edition of Jesuitical I'm a little nervous, it's you know it's funny we whenever we branch out of our

Our format we work really hard to keep it within the format when we do the show normally right like signs of the times interview as one friend speaks to another and anytime we do anything different in like bonus episodes,

I always feel like it's a bit of a risk.

Yes, and this time it's extra risky

because we don't get to shape the show

listeners you have with your questions for Zach and I.

We're really grateful we've got a mail bag episode.

We haven't done one of these.

If you listen to other podcasts, this is a regular feature sometimes.

But basically we're opening up the floor to you to talk about really anything.

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