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.
That Great Leap towards the World
Easter Wednesday Rorate has re-published a cracker jack Il Foglio piece by Alessandro Gnocci that describes what the novus ordo sect lost as represented by traditional vestments like the maniple and amice. “Funeral Etiquette:...
