Keeping the Faith in Dry Seasons - The Inner Life - July 17, 2026

Father Bobby Blood joins Deacon Patrick Conley to discuss Keeping the Faith in Dry Seasons

• What is Spiritual Dryness
• (7:59) Importance of routines in our spiritual life
• Why would God let us go through dry times in our life?
• (12:16) Elias - If I feel like I am doing well in prayer life, how do I best prepare for when the dry season comes?
• Juan - I am enduring a heavy cross, and how to carry it.

(17:49) Break 1

• (19:15) Wade - A few months after Lent I lose my spiritual drive. Why is this a consistency every year? What can I do to alleviate this?
• (24:45) How are the Sacraments important or times of Dryness?
• What do you do when you aren’t getting anything out Mass?
• (30:59) Email from Dylan – I have been dealing with dryness for years now and I don’t know what to do.
• Email from Rose – How do you deal with the accusing voice of the Devil?
• (34:44) Teresa - I get very melancholic for no reason, accusing myself of sloth, and I am wondering if it is because God is trying to prepare me for a blessing?

(37:40) Break 2

• Email from Adrian – How does dryness relate to how we perceive God?
• (41:36) Maria - Spiritual Dryness: There are moments, I say, 'is there all there is to it?' What will happen?
• (44:03) Bonnie - Shame, regarding your life situation and shame as opposed to guilt and not feeling close to God b/c of shame.
• (47:54) Gianna - One thing that could help refresh the faith is something new, something different