#12231 Are Temperaments Fixed or Fluid? Catholic Answers to Personality Questions - Rose Sweet
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🗓️ 9 June 2025
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Summary
Can your temperament shape your spiritual life? In this episode we explore how natural disposition, trauma, and personality types affect prayer, change over time, and whether they’re at odds with providence. Also—can you be a composite temperament?
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Questions Covered:
16:56 – Would my temperament have effect on my trouble with keeping focus on prayer life
30:34 – Can we have a composite of our temperaments?
42:33 – Can your temperament change during the course of your life?
49:40 – How do we square the idea of a temperament being “happy-go-lucky” with providence, when as Catholics we do not believe in luck?
52:37 – Is it possible to have early childhood trauma that shapes and forms your temperament?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers live. I am Sykelet, your host, as happy as can be to be back here with you on a Monday afternoon. |
| 0:22.0 | Thanks very much for being here with us. The number is 888-3-187-884, and you're probably going to want |
| 0:27.2 | to call at least one of the two hours. Second hour, Jason Everett, will be here with us and we'll talk |
| 0:32.9 | about chastity with Jason. Maybe if you are, if that's an issue in your own life, that's something you'd |
| 0:38.2 | like to help, you know, encourage in your children's lives, whatever. If you have chastity |
| 0:42.2 | questions, you're welcome to call second hour. This hour, I think we're pretty much just going to |
| 0:46.7 | have a ball talking about a fascinating subject with a wonderful person. Rose Sweet is here, |
| 0:52.9 | and she's got a new book called My Type of Holiness, |
| 0:57.0 | Striving for Sainthood with the temperament God gave me. So God gave each of us a temperament, |
| 1:04.7 | and he did it because he loves us and he loves the world, and he, a person like us in it. And there's a long |
| 1:12.8 | centuries-long study of the human temperaments. And that's what Rose's book is about. Rose, you can find |
| 1:19.6 | her at roseweet.com and get all her books and have her come to your event. Are you still going out |
| 1:27.3 | speaking, |
| 1:27.6 | Rose? I am. Yep. But mostly you can just pick up the phone and call if you want to talk to our |
| 1:32.1 | 8883-187-884. Rose Sweet, thank you for being here. I'm happy to be here. I feel sanguine |
| 1:38.8 | about having you here. Well, you can feel sanguine. A little melancholic, but it's also phlegmatic. |
| 1:44.9 | But what about your choleric? |
| 1:46.2 | I don't know about that. |
| 1:48.0 | You're very confused, isn't that correct? |
| 1:50.2 | That is, yes, that is my temperament. |
| 1:54.5 | Confused. |
| 1:55.4 | All right, so there's four temperaments. |
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