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MYS208: Prayer is a human universal, but can you pray for something that’s already happened? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at prayer and time and God’s relationship to time, with a big twist in the reason perspective.

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Links for this episode:

• C.S. Lewis’s book Miracles
• Susan Tassone’s book Praying with the Saints for the Holy Souls in Purgatory (Padre Pio information)
• Diary of St. Faustina Kowalska
• Fr. John Nageleisen’s book Charity for the Suffering Souls
• Benedict XVI’s encyclical Spe Salvi
• Leonard Leibovivi’s paper from the British Journal of Medicine
• Astin et al.’s meta-analysis of distant healing in the Annals of Internal Medicine
• Jimmy’s article Praying Across Time
• Jimmy’s article on St. Faustina and Praying Across Time
• Jimmy’s article Praying for the Past: Another View
• Jimmy’s series on the nature of time:
• • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3

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