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You're listening to Episode 208 of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world.

We will look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about praying across time.

I'm Dom Bettenelli and joining me today is Jimmy Aiken. Hi Jimmy. Howdy, Dom.

Prayer is a human universal. All through human history, people have been praying to God or the gods.

But what if there's something important you would want to pray for and it's already happened?

Suppose your friend is coming to see you by airplane but then you learn that the airplane is crashed.

Your friend is either alive or dead but you don't know which.

Can you pray that your friends survive the crash or is it simply too late?

Well, that's what we'll be talking about on this episode of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world.

Jimmy, why did you want to do this episode?

I'm not going to answer that question just yet. We'll come back to it when we hit the

reason perspective because there's a twist coming in this story that you wouldn't expect.

A twist in the reason perspective despite the fact that this looks like a straight ahead

theological mystery? Absolutely. And unless you heard me mention it on Catholic answers live,

it'll be difficult to spot what the twist is going to be. I will say though that I've been

interested in this subject for a long time. But there's a specific reason I decided to do this

episode now. Okay, then let's get started with the background to this mystery. What do you mean by

praying across time? In essence, praying to God concerning things that have already happened.

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