#122010 What If You Pray and Still Feel No Response From God? - Jimmy Akin

Catholic Answers Live

You’ve invited God into your heart, prayed sincerely, and still feel silence. What does that mean? We explore how to respond when God seems distant—even when you’re doing everything right. Join The CA Live Club Newsletter: Click Here Invite our apologists to speak at your parish! Visit Catholicanswersspeakers.com Please help support our mission by donating! Catholicanswersradio.com Questions Covered: 01:01 – I kind of want to convert but Eucharistic ministers’ hands touching hands and tongues and sharing the chalice are so yucky! What can I do about this hang-up? 12:49 – Do you have a response to Dr Mark Miravalle’s response about Medjugorje? 18:22 – I heard you state on a recent podcast that you have a particular interest in linguistics, so I’m hoping you can comment on the following issue. Why are some Old Testament names so familiar in modern English and others so foreign to us? Is it a matter of translation, the importance of the person, or something else? 24:45 – What’s the best evidence that psi phenomenon exist? 39:50 – If Angels have been around since creation, but they don’t reproduce, does that mean that it’s the same number of angels since the beginning? No more and no less? 44:52 – How do those who desperately want a relationship with God, including prayers inviting all three persons of God to come into their heart, deal properly with an apparent lack of response from God. 48:21 – How can ‘days off purgatory’ be understood in the hereafter since we live in a different ‘time zone’ AND isn’t the timeframe of the purging a discretionary matter ONLY God can determine? 50:52 – The Copenhagen experiment where they shot photons through slits (I think I have that right?) and the particles behaved differently when they were observed vs unobserved – does this offer any proof for God? Also how does this work with Weeping Angels?

Chapters

1. I kind of want to convert but Eucharistic ministers’ hands touching hands and tongues and sharing the chalice are so yucky!  What can I do about this hang-up? (00:01:01)

2. Do you have a response to Dr Mark Miravalle’s response about Medjugorje? (00:12:49)

3. I heard you state on a recent podcast that you have a particular interest in linguistics, so I’m hoping you can comment on the following issue.  Why are some Old Testament names so familiar in modern English and others so foreign to us?  Is it a matter of translation, the importance of the person, or something else? (00:18:22)

4. What’s the best evidence that psi phenomenon exist? (00:24:45)

5. If Angels have been around since creation, but they don’t reproduce, does that mean that it’s the same number of angels since the beginning? No more and no less? (00:39:50)

6. How do those who desperately want a relationship with God, including prayers inviting all three persons of God to come into their heart, deal properly with an apparent lack of response from God. (00:44:52)

7. How can ‘days off purgatory’ be understood in the hereafter since we live in a different ‘time zone’ AND isn’t the timeframe of the purging a discretionary matter ONLY God can determine? (00:48:21)

8. The Copenhagen experiment where they shot photons through slits (I think I have that right?) and the particles behaved differently when they were observed vs unobserved - does this offer any proof for God? Also how does this work with Weeping Angels? (00:50:52)