What's up and welcome to the Ask Father Joshua, the podcast where I get to listen to your questions, prayer with them, study them, and hopefully respond in such a way that it's helpful for you to become a saint and you walk toward eternity. On today's show, we have my good friend, Dr. Brian Pedraza. Dr. P. is a professor of theology at Franciscan missionaries of Our Lady University.

He is the founder of the Domino's Project.

He is a husband to Adrian.

He is a father to three sons.

He is a parishioner at Christ the King.

Dr. Brian Podraza, welcome to the show.

What's up, my father, my brother?

It's great to be with you again.

As always.

And so if you have any questions for me while I have these guests on the show, you can

him have the own questions, comments, and critiques at www.

at ascitiapress.com slash as Father Josh or ask Father Josh at ascentiapress.com.

Hit me up with an email there. And during this entire season, we've been talking about the vices and how we can grow on virtue. And so we have on the Ascission app an exclusive devotional series called Set Free, where I walk with you in learning about the seven daily sins, getting to the core of what your vice might be, and learning practical ways

that we can pray and fast together to overcome these sins. This devotional set free is only

and exclusively available on the Ascension app. Today, Dr. Brian Padraza and I, we're going to talk

about the deadly sin of sloth. Let's go. Sloth. I think we said that.

Sloth and slow.

Sloth, it can be defined as a disordered inclination.

I love how all the vices are either irrational or disordered.

I just love the terminology.

It's a disorder inclination to apathy or laziness in fulfilling one's duties.

And typically when we speak about sloth, we make a distinction between its physical and

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