Fr. James Martin, S.J.

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2,283 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 4d ago

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Yeah, I think certainly God speaks to people in dreams in the Bible, right?

And Joseph's dream and there's lots of experiences of people having dreams in the Bible that we trust.

But I also, um, you know, from a

maybe more contemporary point of view, um, think that there's sometimes things that our conscious minds really can't accept or can't hear.

And it works better for God, I guess, you know, to work through our unconscious minds.

And I found particularly on retreat, I'll have dreams.

That are really revelatory.

Now look, the the key is to remember not every dream is a big message from God.

Right?

I mean you could just have a dream about

and you know, I'm I'm I didn't study for a test or I didn't prepare a homily or something like that.

Those are anxiety dreams.

But from time to time, you know, as Andrew was saying.

in his dream.

we get this sort of glimpse of um, you know, I would call a little bit of a revelation from God.

So the way I look at it is,

You really have to test it out.

Um one of my spiritual directors likes to say it's a very nice, neutral question.

What occurs to you?

What occurs to you in this dream?

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