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Nov 2023
17m 12s

What Will You Do for Love?

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What are you willing to do for someone you love? Very often, love requires us to make sacrifices and experience difficulties. Such is the case with prayer so often. In order to have time with God in prayer, we may need to make sacrifices. Fr. Josh shares what these sacrifices may look like and why it is so worth it.

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Prayer is not always a comfortable thing. But it is always worth it because in prayer we encounter God and his love.

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