When the Turkey Is Gone — The Leftovers
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The turkey may be gone, but the spiritual leftovers can linger. Jeff breaks open the two struggles that often emerge after family gatherings—unforgiveness and envy—and shows how the Gospel invites us to something better.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, |
| 0:05.5 | videos, and resources, to help you live your faith every day, visit ascensionpress.com. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to the Jeff Kaven Show, where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and |
| 0:17.1 | evangelization, putting it all together and living as activated disciples. |
| 0:23.7 | This is show 459 when the turkey is gone, the leftovers. |
| 0:34.1 | Wow, what a big week that was last week. |
| 0:37.2 | Thanksgiving here in the United States. |
| 0:40.0 | And it is always such a big deal in so many ways, isn't it? |
| 0:45.4 | Especially when you put into the mixed travel problems and everything that we've gone through in the United States. |
| 0:52.2 | They say that the Sunday after Thanksgiving |
| 0:55.7 | was a record as far as TSA screenings and people traveling around the world. Just a big day. |
| 1:03.4 | But the thing that happened on Thanksgiving that doesn't happen on every day throughout the year |
| 1:09.4 | is you get together with family. |
| 1:12.4 | You get together with those that came from across the country you haven't talked to in a while, |
| 1:17.5 | and there might even be reasons why you didn't talk to them for a while. |
| 1:21.2 | But I want to talk to you about that today, and that is when the turkey is gone, the leftovers, |
| 1:26.1 | what happens after Thanksgiving? |
| 1:28.5 | And I want to talk specifically about two things that can happen at Thanksgiving when family gets together. |
| 1:35.6 | Now, I know a lot of good things can happen. |
| 1:38.5 | And no doubt, there are a lot of good things that have happened. |
| 1:41.2 | And your family might be one of those where you get together and everything is just, you know, great. |
| 1:47.0 | It's just great. |
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