Voting, Spiritual Direction, and Fasting

Ask Father Josh (Your Catholic Question and Answer Podcast)

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🗓️ 6 November 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Fr. Josh answers questions about voting when not one candidate’s platform aligns totally with Catholic teaching, how to discern finding a spiritual director, and the correct way to approach fasting. If you have a question, comment, or response for Fr. Josh, email us at [email protected]. You may hear your question or comment in an upcoming podcast episode!

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When we fast from things that bring us pleasure, we feel what we are missing. That feeling should remind us how much we ought to be longing for Jesus. Turn to Jesus instead of turning toward passing pleasure to fill your desires.

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0:00.0	What's up, and welcome to Ask Father Josh, the podcast where I get to hear you out
0:04.2	listen to your questions, pray with them, and then hopefully respond in such a way that
0:08.5	it's helpful for you and your walk toward eternity.
0:12.4	If you're a first time listener, I would encourage you to invite you to hit me up with your
0:17.0	questions and your comments on today's episode and your critiques as well, and ask Father
0:22.6	Josh at ascensionpress.com.
0:24.4	And you can also rate us and review us on iTunes, and this helps other people discover
0:32.0	this show, and this show is a gift for you, then potentially it can become a gift for
0:35.7	them as well.
0:41.6	On today's show, our topics are going to be about spiritual direction.
0:46.4	How do I discern a spiritual director?
0:48.2	What is it supposed to be like?
0:49.6	What is it not?
0:50.8	We're going to talk about fasting and how ought I fast, depending on my state of life,
0:55.5	the season of life that I'm currently in, and also voting.
0:58.7	And our voting is coming up, and so how do I vote as a disciple of Jesus Christ as someone
1:02.8	who wants to be a saint in my walk toward eternity?
1:08.4	Before we get jumping into those topics, I want to share with you a glory story.
1:12.6	So last week we talked about a glory story about me and my buddy Father Ruben Dykes, whenever
1:17.2	we accidentally broke into somebody's house and God saved us from dying, from doing that
1:23.3	it was an accident, but it was a memorable accident.
1:26.9	And so this is the next entry into the adventures of Father Josh and Father Ruben.
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