Catholic Answers Focus: Distraction in Prayer

Understanding what prayer is goes a long when when tacking problems with distraction in prayer. Father Hugh and Cy discuss how to start praying, and what distraction in prayer means, which is maybe less than you think.

Transcript:

[jspike]

I love listening to this show while playing computer games. I've played so much minecraft with you guys on my other screen.

[jeffthomas]

I love listening to these short discussions. I work on the computer quite a bit for work so it's really great to learn more about my faith while I'm working throughout the day. I love the work y'all are doing, Catholic Answers.

[BenHarris]

I’m not “distracted” I’m simply, well... Yeah I’m distracted. This talk was great!

[marymccannfrancis]

Amen beautiful explaining father thank you

[solangemarie]

I've learnt alot thank you Father

[Josiebydarn]

Me? Distracted? No way. What did you just say? 😂

[brendanquinn]

I loved the way he made the point about, um, argh, oh, never mind.

[AstonMonks]

You could say I just needed a bit of Catholic Focus 😂

[henrymalinowski]

I feel called out with that pizza thumbnail. I do really like a good pizza, though.

[deb]

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed."
–St. Francis de Sales

[maxand.]

watching a distraction video on youtube, with all the Catholic recommended videos on the right of this video...oh dear...

[eugene-leveque]

Tʜᴀɴᴋ ʏᴏᴜ ғᴀᴛʜᴇʀ. 💘🇻🇦
Exᴄᴇʟʟᴇɴᴛ. As ᴀʟᴡᴀʏs.

[magicedutainer]

I don’t know about being distracted by thinking of pizza. That is more during lent …

[ibatan]

Too much theoretical, nothing practical