11/7/23 - Fr. Joseph Dalimata, FSSP

Fr. Joseph Dalimata, FSSP serves as Parochial Vicar at Immaculate Conception Church in El Paso, Texas. He was ordained in May of 2021.   In Today's Show  What advice would you give to someone suffering serious illness for many years who feels in some way like God is punishing them for their past sins and they can at times feel abandoned by God, even though they know this is not the case? Is it the custom at a TLM to bow to the priest and to the Processional Cross as they process past our pew? If asked, both the Orthodox church and the Roman Catholic church will say "Come worship here; we have apostolic succession; we are the true church founded by Jesus down to the current day." Can they both actually trace back to that time? If yes, is one "more right" than the other? Is it correct that, as Catholics, using pronouns should be discouraged as it somehow entails subscribing to the dominant gender-theory culture for which anybody can pick their gender, and thus moving away from what God has chosen? If this is discouraged, is doing so a venial sin or a mortal sin? What is the origin of the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus? How do I go about practicing this devotion? Where did the word "sacrament" come from? I can't find it in the Bible! Before God there is no mediator except Jesus. So, where do the saints and Mary come in?   Visit the show page at thestationofthecross.com/askapriest to listen live, check out the weekly lineup, listen to podcasts of past episodes, watch live video, find show resources, sign up for our mailing list of upcoming shows, and submit your question for Father!