Acedia, Episode 8: The Ultimate Remedy
God Himself becomes the cure: the Incarnation heals the distance and heaviness that the noonday devil exploits.
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Acedia, Episode 7: The Mother and Her Daughters
The daughters acedia breeds: restlessness, despair, the wandering mind and the cure that begins by staying put and acting against the impulse to flee.
Acedia, Episode 6: Beatitude Is an Activity
Beatitude is not rest but an activity, and acedia’s disgust with it turns out to be a fixation on the effort rather than the reward.
Acedia, Episode 5: How Friendship with God Is Possible
Charity is friendship with God and God makes that friendship possible by sharing His own beatitude with the creature.
Acedia, Episode 4: The Circular Movement of Love
St. Thomas Aquinas gives acedia its two defining marks: a sadness about a spiritual good, and a disgust with activity.
Acedia, Episode 3: The Two Definitions
St. Thomas Aquinas gives acedia its two defining marks: a sadness about a spiritual good, and a disgust with activity.
Acedia, Episode 2: The Remedies of the Desert
From the desert come five remedies for acedia, the weapons by which Cassian, Syncletica, and St. Benedict held their ground against it.
Acedia, Episode 1: The Noonday Devil
Father Nicolás Despósito introduces Acedia, the noonday devil that drove the desert monk from his cell and the temptation every Christian shares as a solitary before God.
The Spiritual Exercises, Episode 28: Rules for Discernment of Spirits – The Second Set
Fr. Trauner explains the eight rules for discernment proper to the Second Week and beyond, addressing consolation without preceding cause, the devil’s disguise as an angel of light, and the careful scrutiny of spiritual...
The Spiritual Exercises, Episode 27: Making a Sound Decision
Fr. Trauner presents St. Ignatius’s practical instruction on making good decisions, covering the three occasions for a sound choice, two complementary methods of discernment, and the reformation of life within an already chosen state....
