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Questions Covered:

 

06:51 - In the last 6 months I started a business. It has been very stressful and full of worry. How can I rely on God and get some peace of mind? 

13:25 - I have generalized anxiety disorder. Is there anything you can recommend for my prayer life that can help me with this? 

21:33 - I have bipolar and depression. I’ve been on medication. It hasn’t really worked, and my depression is really getting to me. What can I do? 

30:33 - Is it okay to take medication for anxiety?  

35:03 - Are there any saints who are patron saints of anxiety and worry? 

40:00 - I have bipolar and schizophrenia. How do I leave my financial anxieties with God?

Questions Covered:

 

15:44 - Why is it that when we start living a holy life, people sometimes start disliking us and our new lifestyle? 

19:25 - I am a Baptist and am wondering why Catholics pray the rosary. Does it make you holier? 

31:30 - What is your recommendation for how to make the most out of Eucharistic adoration?  

36:08 - I say the Rosary. Is that okay? Do my rosaries help someone? 

43:20 - I recently promised my dad that I would quit cigarettes if he would say the rosary every day. It has been very difficult for me. What is the Church’s teaching on smoking? 

46:30 - How should we handle everyday gossip?

On this week's show, we talk about learning our faith so we can share it with others in a conversation with Karlo Broussard, author of the new book Meeting the Protestant Challenge: How to Answer 50 Biblical Objections to Catholic Beliefs.

About Karlo Broussard:

Karlo Broussard, a native of Southern Louisiana, left a promising musical career to devote himself full-time to the work of Catholic apologetics. With undergraduate and graduate degrees in Theology, as well as a Masters in Philosophy, Karlo is a full-time staff apologist for Catholic Answers and travels the country giving talks on apologetics, the Bible, theology, and philosophy. 

About Meeting the Protestant Challenge:

Every Catholic has heard the challenge: "How can you believe that? Don't you know the Bible says..." It's a challenge we have to meet. If we can't reconcile apparent contradictions between Scripture and Catholic teaching, how can our own faith survive? And if we can't help our Protestant brothers and sisters overcome their preconceptions about "unbiblical" Catholic doctrines and practices, how will they ever come to embrace the fullness of the Faith? In Meeting the Protestant Challenge, Karlo Broussard gives you the knowledge and tools you need to answer fifty of the most common Bible-based objections to Catholicism.

For more information:

Karlo Broussard website

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I am pleased to have priest, author, and speaker on the program this week.  Father is the author of Lenten Journey with Mother Mary released by Sophia Institute Press.  In this episode we talk about Lent, Ash Wednesday, and how Mary always points us to her son. Fr. Edward Looney was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Green Bay in June 2015, and is an internationally recognized Marian theologian, writer, speaker, and radio personality. Author of the best-selling books, A Heart Like Mary s and A Rosary Litany, he has also written several works on the American-approved Marian apparition received by Adele Brise in 1859 in Champion, Wisconsin. He currently serves as Administrator of two rural Wisconsin parishes.

Today we welcome Scott Williams, founder of Sock Religious, who brings us a quote he came across while coaching youth hockey, from Coach Piggy Lambert.

“Ask me in 20 years and we’ll see how successful these boys are. Then I’ll be able to tell you if I succeeded as a coach.”

Here’s the book on Coach John Wooden in which Scott found this inspiration: Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization.

Whether or not you’re involved with youth in sports or ministry, listen in to have Scott’s quote help you embrace the present moment and be all God’s calling you to be right now. Your trust and faithfulness today will, with His grace, bear beautiful fruit in the future.

Other quotes we discussed:

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”–St. Teresa of Kolkata

“It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision.We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificententerprise that is God's work. Nothing we do is complete, which is a way ofsaying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us.No statement says all that could be said.No prayer fully expresses our faith.No confession brings perfection.No pastoral visit brings wholeness.No program accomplishes the Church's mission.No set of goals and objectives includes everything.This is what we are about.We plant the seeds that one day will grow.We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.We lay foundations that will need further development.We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, anopportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest.We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the masterbuilder and the worker.We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs.We are prophets of a future not our own.”

--Attributed to St. Oscar Romero

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Until next time, God bless you!

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The 1st reading from the Book of Sirach answers the questions we may have of eternal life.

To read this week's readings, go to: usccb.org

Callers choose the topics during Open Forum, peppering our guests with questions on every aspect of Catholic life and faith, the moral life, and even philosophical topics that touch on general religious belief. 

Questions Covered:

 

02:21 - Why does the Catholic Church still insist on using a priest for confession? Why do Catholics use priests when Jesus is our high priest? 

15:17 - How do I become a Messianic Jew? 

17:40 - Where do the ashes during Lent come from? Is there Scriptural evidence for this? 

22:35 - What is the biblical support for people being able to receive Communion but not remarry once they have divorced? Where does this teaching come from? 

33:25 - My non-Catholic friend said it’s okay to have multiple wives, using Scripture as evidence. How can I refute this? 

39:43 - Jesus talks about “whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven.” What did that mean in the original Greek? 

46:10 - Is it appropriate to change the images of Jesus and Mary to other races than their actual race? 

50:09 - What is the best translation of the Bible?