119 A Powerful Introduction to the Spiritual Life with Brant Pitre
The Art of Catholic with Matthew Leonard
Matthew Leonard
4.9 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Matthew Leonard and Brant Pitre dive into a discussion of meditation and authentic Catholic spirituality that will leave you thirsting for God. The spiritual life is what Jesus calls the "one thing necessary" in Luke 10:42.
Topics covered include:
- What are the Jewish roots of prayer?
- How specific virtues oppose specific vices
- What are the Jewish roots of prayer?
- Why meditation is a key to happiness
- What does it mean to love the Lord with "all your mind"
- What is the difference between meditation and contemplation?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the art of Catholic. |
| 0:05.7 | Welcome to the art of Catholic podcast. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Matthew Leonard, so glad to have you with me. |
| 0:18.8 | And today we are going to talk about the sweetest subject of them all. |
| 0:22.8 | What Jesus Christ himself calls the one thing necessary, |
| 0:26.3 | Luke chapter 10, the spiritual life, our divine intimacy |
| 0:29.8 | with the God of the universe. |
| 0:32.1 | And if you have not done so already, click subscribe now. |
| 0:35.7 | You are not going to want to miss not just this conversation, |
| 0:39.6 | but the ones that are to come because my guest, |
| 0:42.4 | Grant Petri, as you're going to see in just a minute, |
| 0:44.7 | this is not the last time we're going to talk about this. |
| 0:46.6 | And there's a lot to discuss here. |
| 0:49.2 | And it's really exciting stuff. |
| 0:50.9 | So please go ahead, click subscribe, |
| 0:52.8 | and share the show as well. |
| 0:54.4 | Teaching the spiritual life and talking |
| 0:56.8 | about the spiritual life is what I have basically |
| 0:59.2 | dedicated my entire life to at this point. |
| 1:01.2 | I've spent three years building the science of sainthood.com. It seems like every time that I'm giving a talk at a |
| 1:06.9 | conference or a parish, it always ends up coming back |
| 1:10.2 | to the spiritual life. |
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