The ashes may be gone, but the decision to take Lent seriously begins now.

In a world filled with confusion and spiritual fatigue, this episode calls Catholics to move beyond minimum observance and step into real spiritual discipline.

If you’ve ever sensed that Lent should be more than giving up chocolate, this conversation will meet you right where you are.

In this episode, we discuss why fasting every Wednesday and Friday can transform your prayer life, how simple meals and small sacrifices sharpen spiritual focus, and why the Holy Spirit leads us deeper into truth through discipline. Lent is a gift — and the desert is where saints are formed.

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Lent isn’t meant to be comfortable - it’s meant to be transformational.

In this episode, I invite you to rethink Lent as a holy adventure, not a box to check or a season to endure.

When we approach Lent with intention, fasting, and trust in God’s grace, it becomes one of the most powerful seasons of growth in the Christian life.

We explore why fasting matters, how planning for Lent changes everything, and what The Hobbit can teach us about sacrifice, courage, and spiritual warfare.

This episode connects Catholic tradition, redemptive suffering, and the hope of Easter, reminding us that the fast always comes before the feast - and that we are designed for both.

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Hard situations don’t ruin us - avoiding them does.

In this powerful episode of the Delay and Pray Podcast, you’ll hear a real coaching session that shows how clarity, faith, and disciplined thinking can transform even the most emotionally charged circumstances.

This is not theory; it’s lived experience rooted in Catholic truth.

In this episode, Beth coaches a client through a difficult work situation using the Delay and Pray thought model, journaling, redemptive suffering, and the sacraments.

You’ll learn how separating facts from drama, sitting with discomfort, and fasting spiritually restores peace, self-control, and freedom - one faithful step at a time.

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An unlikely football championship stirred something far deeper than sports emotion - and it has everything to do with fasting, faith, and obedience to God.

In this episode, I share how Indiana University’s miraculous football season became a powerful lens for understanding spiritual discipline and God’s supernatural timing.

If you’re working hard with little visible fruit, this episode will encourage you to keep going.

We talk about the connection between athletic training and spiritual fasting, how suffering fuels motivation, the role of Catholic faith in true success, and why fasting and praying for others invites grace into the world.

This is a story about discipline, humility, and how God turns impossible situations into testimonies when we trust Him fully.

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Epiphany is the Church’s doorway into the new year - a feast that turns Christmas from a celebration into a mission.

In this episode, we reflect on Christ revealed to the nations, the journey of the Wise Men, and how January invites us to respond with intention, sacrifice, and love refined by prayer.

Beth explores how Epiphany reveals Jesus as Lord for all people and asks how we will respond now that He has been made known to us, how the gifts of the Magi—gold, frankincense, and myrrh—teach us to offer love, continual prayer, and fasting as participation in Christ’s life, and how spiritual fasting reorders desire, transforms suffering into gift, and sends us home by another way, changed by encounter with Christ.

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January is full of hope - and pressure.

New plans, new promises, and resolutions that often fade by mid-month.

In this episode, Beth Bubik explains why resolutions fail and what actually brings lasting change.

In this episode, we discuss why behavior-based resolutions don’t work and why formation does, how temperance transforms desire at the root, not just actions, and why spiritual fasting succeeds where dieting always fails.

This is not about motivation or willpower. It’s about order, virtue, and peace in body and soul.

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Late afternoon and evening eating is one of the most common struggles in spiritual fasting—and it’s not a failure of willpower.

In this episode, Beth teaches why the 4–8pm window is so challenging and how to plan ahead so fasting becomes an act of love instead of a daily battle.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to understand what’s really happening biologically, emotionally, and spiritually between 4–8pm, plan your afternoons and evenings in advance to eliminate decision fatigue and grazing, and turn late-day hunger into powerful prayer, intercession, and spiritual fasting

Your 4pm struggle is not a character flaw—it’s a transition hour. When you plan it intentionally, the battle shifts in your favor.

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Happy New Year and welcome to 2026!

On this episode, Beth reflects on the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God, and what it means to begin the New Year the Catholic way—with gratitude, trust, and a faithful yes.

Looking back at the graces of 2025 and stepping forward into 2026 with faith, Beth uses It’s a Wonderful Life to explore how holiness is often lived quietly through obedience, family life, and daily surrender.

This episode invites you to embrace spiritual fasting as mission and to begin the year under Mary’s mantle with joy and purpose.

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