Fr. James Martin, S.J.
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first heard Jun 2026
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And thank you for your time.
I know you're very busy and also thank you especially for sharing
Some of your own spiritual life with us.
We're very grateful to have had you on.
So Maggie, what did you uh take away from that wonderful interview?
Yeah, well it's funny you should ask that 'cause I just came back from my annual eight day retreat, um, which is the time that I really would say that I feel God the most.
I mean real kind of emotions and tears and consolation.
And you know, I would say
In my prayer, um, sometimes, not all the time, you know, daily prayer, sometimes during the Mass.
But, you know, most of the time I don't think you're really feeling stuff.
Uh at least that's how I feel.
I mean, I trust in God's presence, but I I think that was a really great quote that he had, you know, Blessed are they who haven't felt anything and still believe, because I think in the spiritual life and even in spiritual direction circles, as you know.
We can privilege emotions over so many things, right?
And um if you pray for example and you don't get an emotion, you don't get joy or sorrow or whatever.
And you maybe have an insight, I talk about this in my book, Learning to Pray, that's fine, right?
So I think, you know, not to be too attached to that, to to be open to that, to be open to the way that God works through your emotions.
You know, like if you're uplifted during a sacrament or during a hymn, a Matt Marr hymn, you know, you're moved to tears, that's great.
But if you're not, it doesn't mean that God is not present to you.
Right.
So a lot of it really is about showing up.
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