Hi, I'm Edwards Sari and welcome to All Things Catholic, where real faith meets real life.

Hi, and welcome to All Things Catholic. I'm your host, Edward Sari, and in this short Christmas week episode, I want to offer you just one important practical point

to help you maintain your spiritual focus in these beautiful but sometimes stressful days around Christmas.

Christmas is awesome, but maybe you experience a little bit of feeling overwhelmed.

It's stressful. There's so much going on. You've got to pack up. You're traveling. You're getting presents. It can just be a little stressful. Maybe you're visiting

relatives and family members and old friends that are stressful for you. Maybe there's some

dysfunction in your family and something happens and you're triggered easily. And that could be

really hard. Or maybe you're just sad this time of year. You feel a little lonely. They're

wondering where your life is going. What are your next steps? Or maybe you lost someone you love this last

year. Whatever the case may be, if you want to maintain your spiritual focus, maintain your

interior peace, relying on the strength of God day to day in the midst of the

busyness of the Christmas week. If you want to maintain your connection with God, there's just

one really simple thing you can do, one simple thing that you need in your life. And that's

simply finding time for prayer when you're out of your normal routine. And that's what I want to talk about here. And it can be really hard. I get it. You know, when you're out of your regular rhythm, maybe you're not even at home, you're traveling. So you're not at your own place. You're not on your own schedule. Or maybe even if you are at home, but you're getting up early in the morning because there's so much to do and you're staying up late at night, socializing. It can be hard. You know, you're hosting people and you're hanging out with old

friends and family members and so many Christmas activities going on. It could be hard to find

that time for prayer. But do you ever notice how sometimes during this season you could be a little

more impatient sometimes? Maybe there's a stressful

thing that happens and you don't respond the right way. It's often because we're not maintaining

our focus in prayer. But how do you find that time? That's what I want to offer you. Just a couple

practical tips. Here we go. Really short here. How do you find that time for prayer in the midst

of being out of your normal routine, and maybe even out of your

own home. The first thing I might say is, you know, sometimes if there's just a lot going on,

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