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.
Charity is friendship with God and God makes that friendship possible by sharing His own beatitude with the creature.
St. Thomas Aquinas gives acedia its two defining marks: a sadness about a spiritual good, and a disgust with activity.
St. Thomas Aquinas gives acedia its two defining marks: a sadness about a spiritual good, and a disgust with activity.
From the desert come five remedies for acedia, the weapons by which Cassian, Syncletica, and St. Benedict held their ground against it.
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.