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Questions Covered:

04:44 - My 7-year-old daughter wants to know why do we abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and on Fridays?

11:07 - What does “created” mean in Sirach 1:4. – “Wisdom was created before all other things, and prudent understanding from eternity”

14:56 - How is the bread consecrated without Jesus being sacrificed yet while he was in the upper room during the last supper?

17:41 - I was married outside the Church to a non-practicing Catholic. I was never Confirmed and we divorced 3 years ago. Are we technically still married?

21:55 - I was raised Pentecostal and I had a vasectomy, would this bar me from becoming Catholic?

29:16 - Is it a mortal sin to provide transportation for someone who doesn’t have a work visa to work?

32:43 - In Matthew 6 it says that Jesus goes back home and does not perform miracles because they don’t have faith. How does the people not having faith play into Jesus not doing miracles?

35:29 - I tend to be emotional over the grandkid and my mom who is elderly, why do I get emotional? I’ve talked to a priest in the past about this.

40:56 - I’m not able to attend Mass on Ash Wednesday because I’m a trucker. Am I going to hell?

45:25 - Follow up on Vasectomy: I got one and my wife had medical issues where it was risky for her to get pregnant. Can you help me sort through the logic and values associated with the vasectomy decision?

51:09 - How do I approach my 26-year-old son when he challenges me about the Church? He insinuates that religion is evil and brings up slavery, inquisition etc.