{"podcast":{"title":"Delay and Pray","slug":"delay-and-pray-5848647","podcast_index_feed_id":5848647,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/delay-and-pray/","website_url":"https://thecatholicfastingcoach.com/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/5df063d8-0095-4b9d-baf1-f6ce0d188243/u3C7C9Ng-AsEiaE40oW8RUhn.jpg","author":"Beth The Catholic Fasting Coach","episode_count":198,"summary":"Delay and Pray® is a weekly podcast about Spiritual Fasting especially true when it comes to losing weight permanently. Beth Bubik is the The Catholic Fasting Coach and she is an expert on the subject of Spiritual Fasting: Why to do it. How to do it. And, when to do it. It's all about delaying food for a spiritual purpose--especially sugar, flour, and alcohol. She coaches Catholics how to spiritually and physically fast to utilize their weight and food struggles as a gift to explode their own prayer lives while helping the souls of others. Every week, Beth will teach you how to literally live out St. John's scripture in every way: \"He must increase, but I must decrease.\" (John 3:30) Lose the weight and gain faith! Everyone is called to Spiritually Fast. Let's get going! Find Beth's Programs and Content on her website: www.thecatholicfastingcoach.com Keep up with the latest posts and information on a daily basis by joining her on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @thecatholicfastingcoach","last_synced_at":"2026-09-10T16:17:42.348841+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/delay-and-pray-5848647"},"episode":{"title":"Technology Is Advancing Faster Than Our Virtue","slug":"technology-is-advancing-faster-than-our-virtue","published_at":"2026-08-20T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/delay-and-pray-5848647/technology-is-advancing-faster-than-our-virtue","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/delay-and-pray-5848647","url":"https://thecatholicfastingcoach.com/Technology-Is-Advancing-Faster-Than-Our-Virtue","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/4948a6b5-ef2b-4d7a-9c4e-b8a21790470e.mp3","summary":"Technology is advancing faster than our virtue—and that should concern us. We live in a culture that can satisfy almost every appetite instantly, from food and entertainment to shopping, screens and endless information, but the Catholic life was never meant to be a life devoted to comfort. The question we need to recover is not simply, \"What do I want?\" but \"Who am I becoming?\" In this episode, I unpack the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity and the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance, while examining how gluttony and sloth have quietly become normalized in modern life. We also talk about smartphones, AI, food, medicine, suffering, spiritual buffering and why prayer, fasting, the sacraments and learning to \"waste time with Jesus\" may be exactly what we need to become free again. Help Beth reach her goal of bringing 1 Million Catholics back to the Church: Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Delay and Pray® Links: $1000 Delay and Pray Group Coaching Experience $10 Delay and Pray® Book Bundle The Catholic Fasting Coach Instagram Facebook LinkedIn","meta_description":"Technology is advancing faster than our virtue—and that should concern us. We live in a culture that can satisfy almost every appetite instantly, from foo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3421,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/delay-and-pray-5848647/episodes/technology-is-advancing-faster-than-our-virtue/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/delay-and-pray-5848647/technology-is-advancing-faster-than-our-virtue.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}