What's up and welcome to Ask Father Josh the Pogas Wigget to listen to your questions, pray with them and hopefully respond in such a way that it's

helpful for you to become a saint in your walk to war eternity here so the show goes you hit me up 3 to 5 questions dealing with anything and everything from morality to spirituality,

relationship advice evangelization discipleship catacletes dogma and doxer you can talk to me about acts of justice and works of charity we can talk about politics all that and what I'll do is as I get your questions I will sit with them and I will pray with them and I will study and hopefully I will respond in such a way that it's helpful for you to become a saint and you walk toward eternity but my disclaimer is this I'm not perfect I am not valuable and I have been wrong many times my life therefore the advice that I share with you

the response that I give to you might not be good for you therefore I want to give you the freedom to reject whatever it is that I say that is not help you to become a saint and your walk toward heaven however if my advice is helpful and good but difficult then I will encourage you to lean into Jesus Christ in prayer and study and worship and in sacrament so that God can give you the grace over the time to fulfill the demands of discipleship if your first time listen to you give me up with your own questions at www.assetsandpress.com

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on today's show we're going to be talking about receiving the Holy Communion when we're not in a state of grace we're going to be talking about Colin Priest father like why do we do that when there's a clear biblical passage it says call no man father and we are going to address some tips on how to be present when we are in the presence of other people especially whenever we might be addicted to the cell phone but before we get into those good topics I want to share with you a glor store

I'll read some of the glor stories this one of my good friends

Jennifer I call her J-Mo she works at a pharmacy and she was sharing this really really cool story one day she just felt called by the Holy Spirit to take her blessed salt and her holy water and to with her coworker like go around her campus of her pharmacy that she works it and put the

blessed salt on that land and the water on that land as well and I'm been out to them later that week or that day I don't know if it was that day or that week there's a huge fire that broke out in the like the shopping center where their pharmacy is located in every building in this like shop in center began to catch on fire

boom boom boom boom the fire is going from building to building the building but guess where it did not go it did not touch anywhere where the blessed salt or the holy water was sprinkled from the parking lot to their business where everywhere they walk with the salt and water they were protected y'all there is power in grace that guy communicates through blessed salt and holy water through blessed metals through blessed

through blessed by bishops in my priest so I really want to encourage you like please get your sacramentals in your home and in your workplace environment and in your schools and in your neighborhoods bring sacramentals there like there is power and grace that

works to have so many experiences of going to somebody's home or their workplace environment and blessing it with holy water a blessed salt and literally like stuff happens like stuff because demons are aware of that stuff and they don't like it the real enemies do not like that the real enemies are people the real enemies of us are demons powers and principalities the minions and in all those different

fires of demons like they are the enemy and they are inspiring so many people in our secular world to do so many things that are not good to put in to practice so many unwritten rules that discriminated against people for no other reason because the color skin still to this day and that that put policies in place of written rules in such a way that it's kind of like is that really what they're trying to say but no matter what they're trying to say that the effect is always that that like people are discriminated against and like this is not good and those people who do this are being inspired by the enemy and so we can

we can not only pray for those people and fast for their conversion we cannot only have conversations with them and invite them to be corrected invite them to be informed on why they're doing and what they're doing is wrong and to encourage them to rewrite their practices and policies that are affecting in a negative way a whole second of people and our community but we can also bring some holy water to those places in spaces and some blessed salt we can bring some blessed metals some same Benedict metals and some reckless metals and put them into some

above the doorpost and under the desk and under the carpet and we can bring those sacramentals into those places and spaces

And I can guarantee you that on many times when we do this

We will see change and we will see

Mines becoming open to

Reformation and hearts being open to transformation because the grace of God works through sacraments sacraments are not some like

Pious thing that only like the super holy old ladies do and like no, they actually are efficacious

God communicates his grace in some powerful ways through sacramentals and so I'd encourage you if you do not have any

Like please go to your priest and ask your priest to bless your medals in your rosaries

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