Jennifer shares how by reflecting more deeply on the Scriptures, and understanding Mary as the first disciple of Jesus who saw through his mission from the Annunciation to Pentecost, helped her see that there was much more to Mary than she’d ever noticed before.

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Is it possible to read and interpret the Bible objectively?

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In this final installment of our series on prayer, we look further at what the Catechism of the Catholic Church has to say about overcoming distractions in prayer.

The proper response to the inevitable reality of distractions is summed up well in Paragraph 2729:

“To set about hunting down distractions would be to fall into their trap, when all that is necessary is to turn back to our heart: for a distraction reveals to us what we are attached to, and this humble awareness before the Lord should awaken our preferential love for him and lead us resolutely to offer him our heart to be purified.”

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But in studying history — not just world and Church history, but the history of his own spiritual trajectory — he began to see that the God he had pushed to the side for years had been with him all along.

Derek shares how his faith and his marriage have helped him to see that despite all the wounds of his family experiences and mistakes of his background, he was always being called to be part of God’s family in the life of the Church.

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Kenny Burchard joins Matt Swaim and Ken Hensley to share the story of how he finally ended up becoming Catholic.

Having left Pentecostal ministry, Kenny ended up looking at a few possible church environments that he thought he and his family might be able to call home.

But at the end of all of it, he found that God was calling them to the last place he ever expected: the Catholic Church.

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The Catechism of the Catholic Church identifies some of these: discouragement, dryness, hesitancy about what God may be calling us to do, and even the darkness within our own hearts.

However, it is by exposing these things to the light that we can seek healing and forgiveness. The Church reminds us that it is crucial to anticipate and meet these apparent “failures” in the journey of prayer with a right mind and heart, ready to turn these obstacles into greater victories of humility and faith.

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Later on, that got him thinking: if we give a special honor to our own mothers, how much more honor should we give to the mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, who he himself honored by following the commandment to honor father and mother more perfectly than any of us?

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Kenny shares the series of experiences and the process of discernment that led him to step away from ministry as a pastor in the Foursquare Church.

He discusses three watershed moments that led him to believe that whatever God had in store for him, it was somewhere besides a Pentecostal pulpit.

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When you begin to make a more conscious and intentional commitment to the journey of prayer, you will become more aware of the spiritual battle that is always raging outside of you as well as inside.

The sections of the Catechism that we cover in this episode address some of the common “objections” that will spring up from time to time as temptations to give up in the battle of prayer; but it is a battle that we cannot afford to stop fighting.

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He shares how experiencing their love and concern for his well-being has helped him to understand the role that Mary plays in the life of Christians: as a loving mother who prays that all people will come to know her son, Jesus.

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