What's up and welcome to Ask Father Josh, the pockets wagget delicious 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 toward eternity today.

I'm giving you a special Thanksgiving message.

A lot of you were praying for me while I was on my silent retreat a few weeks ago and

I know you've been anticipating a few comments from people here and there at the streets.

What happened on the eight day silent retreat?

So in gratitude for your prayers of an in session, I'm going to be sharing just a few of those

graces that I was able to receive and perceive from the Lord and I will attribute it to

your prayers of an in session.

This was the best eight day silent retreat of my life.

I do this every year, eight days of silence with the Lord, but this one, the Lord went deep,

he went so deep and he again, I think I mentioned briefly the last week or the week before

the he showed me some of my vices that I just wasn't even aware of and he doesn't accuse

me when he shows me these things.

It doesn't condemn me that he showed me so that I could find freedom from them so that

I could be the priest that he desires me to be, to serve his people, to be a through

and instrument for his people to fall in love with him and stand in love with him and

abide in his love on earth as it is in heaven.

So one of the graces that I've perceived there are so many, but I'll share this one for

the sake of Thanksgiving is this because around Thanksgiving, sometimes, the holidays in

general, we have a lot of expectations and expectations are the fruit of not being content

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