Acedia, Episode 8: The Ultimate Remedy
God Himself becomes the cure: the Incarnation heals the distance and heaviness that the noonday devil exploits.
Tagged: Spiritual Life
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 8: Self Examination
In this week’s lecture Father moves on to a more practical topic, self examination. As fallen human beings we have a tendency to sin, and if we are to progress in the spiritual life...
The Spiritual Exercises, Episode 7: The Use of Creation
“Everything else on earth has been created on earth has been created for man’s sake to attain the purpose for which he was created.” This week in our study of the Spiritual Exercises Father...
