S07 Episode 5: The Power of Holy Hour with Fr. Josh Johnson
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🗓️ 17 February 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The Power of Holy Hour
In this episode we have our dear friend Fr. Josh Johnson back on the podcast to discuss how to have a fruitful Holy Hour. Through his humor and reflections, Fr. Josh shares practical tools as well spiritual insights about how to pray in silence and grow in intimacy with Jesus.
Fr. Josh's one thing - The Liturgy of the Hours
Sister Miriam's one thing - Calming Christian playlist on Spotify
Michelle's one thing - Priscilla at The Little Catholic shop
Heather's one thing - The movie The Peanut Butter Falcon
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Additional Resources
The Pocket Guide to Adoration by Fr. Josh Johnson. Listeners in Canada, shop here. Listeners in the UK, shop here.
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Discussion questions:
- What struck you from the podcast?
- Do you make adoration a regular practice? Why or why not?
- What has been your experience of adoration?
- What are some ways you've learned to avoid distraction in adoration?
- What are some ways you like to pray in adoration?
Journal Questions:
- Reflect and journal about this scripture: Jeremiah 19:12-14. What does it speak to you personally?
- Take some time in adoration this week: What do you hear the Lord saying to you while you spend time with Him?
- What's holding you back from spending time in adoration? How do you think the Lord wants to respond to that?
Quote to Ponder - "Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord. Never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you'll be fine." ― St. Teresa of Calcutta to Henri Nouwen
Scripture for Lectio Divina - Jeremiah 19:12-14: "Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you," declares the Lord.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Abiding Together podcast. Abiding together is a place where you can |
| 0:13.4 | find connection, rest and encouragement on your journey with Jesus Christ. My name is |
| 0:18.2 | Sister Miriam James Heidlund and every week I am joined by two of my dearest friends, |
| 0:23.1 | Michelle Benzinger and Heather Kim. This podcast is born out of our friendship of sharing |
| 0:28.4 | all kinds of things together. Our walk with Christ, our insights, our joys, sorrows, tears |
| 0:34.2 | and laughter and you are most welcome on the journey with us. So grab a cup of coffee, settle |
| 0:40.5 | in and welcome home. |
| 0:47.3 | Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the Abiding Together podcast and we are delighted, |
| 0:52.8 | we are delighted to welcome a guest we've had before that we can't wait to spend time with again |
| 0:58.0 | that you're going to love very much. So today we're going to talk about the power of the Holy |
| 1:02.0 | Hour, the power of a Holy Hour and how do you make a Holy Hour, the power of adoration and so |
| 1:06.4 | but before we introduce our guest, I want to talk to Heather and Michelle, hello ladies, how are we, |
| 1:12.2 | we got our guest back again so it's the four of us actually. And just like before we've had |
| 1:17.6 | nothing but trouble because I don't know I'm anticipating this is going to be... So we had trouble |
| 1:22.8 | the first time. I know. Do we have trouble the first time? We're having the most epic trouble ever. |
| 1:26.2 | Yeah, we're having like we're about to have such a great conversation, you know, we're just |
| 1:29.6 | having all this trouble with all the tech stuff but we got it, we got it. So we're good to go. I'm |
| 1:34.2 | really happy to see you all. Yeah and we can finally hear each other also because we couldn't hear |
| 1:39.2 | we couldn't see but not here and then we could hear but not see and now we're seeing and hearing |
| 1:42.4 | and we're... How are you Michelle? I'm great. I just got off of a four day retreat with a bunch of |
| 1:46.5 | young adult women and they were awesome. I came home and fell asleep at 815. I was so tired |
| 1:52.9 | because I can't hang that long but anyway it was great and I'm glad to be with you and I'm glad |
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