Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic answers podcast for living, understanding, and

defending your Catholic faith.

I am Cy Kellett, your host, and today we talk about God the Father and about well first of

all coming closer to God the Father but also about opportunities with evangelization and apologetics, explaining and

defending and sharing the faith of sharing the love of the father, but

also obstacles that come from people's perhaps their relationship with the father or

media depictions of fatherhood and so these kind of messing up our image of

God our guest is Father Mark Mary Ames. He's with the Franciscan

friars of the renewal and he has a new book called The Father, 30 meditations to draw you into the heart of God.

Available now from Ascension Press.

Father Ames, thank you very much for being here with us.

Hey, Sigh, good to be with you.

Thanks for having me.

Did I get it all right, Franciscan friars of the renewal? You nailed it, yep. I

nailed it! I appreciate the affirmation. First of all, having a triune god, there's always going to be for each of us an emphasis on one

member of the Trinity or another and maybe in history over time there's an emphasis on one over the other

this doesn't seem to be the father's time. What makes you say that? Well I mean I think

that there were very much especially because of evangelical

Protestantism were very much about Jesus and often Jesus to the exclusion of any other consideration.

All the talk is Jesus talk and there's very little talk about the Father and

the Spirit and even among evangelicals, whether within or outside the Catholic Church, the Spirit will get a little better

press than the Father will.

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