What's up and welcome to Ask Father Josh, the podcast, why I get to listen to your questions, pray with them, and hopefully respond in such a way that is helpful for you to become a saint in your walk toward eternity.

Here's how the show goes.

You're keeping up with their questions regarding anything from prayer to fasting to almsgiving, evangelization, discipleship catechises, relationship advice,

how to find freedom from our bad habits and grow in virtues. Whatever your questions are,

I will receive them. I will pray with them, study them, and talk to holy friends about them,

and then hopefully respond to you with wisdom that is good for you to grow in your relationship

with God. I'm not perfect. The guests on the show, we're not perfect, we're not infallible,

and we're not always inspired by the Holy Spirit.

So if the advice we give us is good for you, please reject it.

But if it is good and difficult, then just lean into prayer.

More so God give you the grace to fulfill the demands of discipleship.

If you have your own questions, comments, and critique,

you can send them to me at www. www.escentiapress.com

or ask Father Josh at essentialpress.com. Throughout this season, we're going to be

addressing the vices, the seven-dly sins, and the virtues that oppose those vices.

And I have a number of different friends who are joining me. We had Father Mark Mary on the show

already. We have Sister Joseph Mary on the show already.

We have Sister Josephine Garrett, one of my best friends, Sister Josephine Garrett, as well as

Dr. Mara Sacasa and Dr. Brian Padrazo will join us as well throughout the season. But on today's show,

we are joined by the one and only, the beloved daughter of God, the father, the spouse, the bride

of Jesus Christ, the spiritual

mother of the people and the diocese of Tyler, Texas, and the sister of the holy family

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