What the Church Says About New Age Practices

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🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Is it ok to participate in new age practices like tarot cards, reiki sessions, or the use of crystals? Fr. Josh shares what the Church teaches when it comes to new age practices. He also describes the harm that can come from participating in these practices. Fr. Josh shares what the Church recommends to combat the evil in our world.
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These practices have the capacity and potential to open us up to things that are not good for us or our community.

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0:57.9	On today's show we're going to be talking about some pretty serious spiritual warfare type
1:03.3	stuff we're going to be talking about the new age movement and tarot card readings and
1:07.7	rakey sessions and sage and all that stuff.
1:14.4	But before we get into the question which comes in from one of our Louisiana members of
1:20.7	our audience I want to share with you a glorious story.
1:50.7	My glory story is so simple.
1:58.6	As a priest we all got stuff going on.
2:01.8	No matter who we are, what our state of life vocation is there's always going to be stuff
2:07.7	and drama and unnecessary stuff too.
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