Dr. Edward Sri
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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And he just keeps laughing.
And he goes, I'm checking it all the time.
Just constantly looking at my phone.
And I suggested, you know, I just smiled and said, you know, maybe the way you live your life outside of prayer is disposing you internally, and that's going to affect the way you live your time in prayer.
And so maybe if you're wanting to have a little more of that experience of being able to sit in silence, can I find some times in the day where I'm not checking my phone?
Where I want to, but I resist.
Because if I'm always wanting to click and be entertained and have something in front of me to grab my attention, it's going to be hard just to sit in silence.
Maybe before...
you know you go to bed at night maybe you just say okay i'm gonna i'll i'll use my phone while i'm downstairs or i'm in my kitchen but when i go up to bed i'm just gonna unplug just to be a little bit like not and i'm not praying i'm just brushing my teeth but if i can practice a little bit of like finding some spaces without the constant noise and distraction in the midst of my day then i think we'll find that when i actually do pause to try to string a few decades together
It'll be just a little bit easier.
But I also would just say not to be discouraged either, you know, that we're human beings.
We're not angels.
Even before the iPhone and social media, people got distracted.
Their minds wandered.
And, you know, and that's going to happen.
And this is one of the big things I took from JP, too, in his letter on the rosary was just how –
Like the words we're saying themselves are holy.
And I know we want to contemplate.
We do want to enter into more meditative prayer on the mysteries of Christ's life.
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