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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Acedia- The Noonday Devil

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.97.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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My gosh, like a fan like a vampire,

0:05.0

right, because vampires aren't coffins dumb dumb stupid.

0:13.0

Hi, my name is Frother Mike Schmitts

0:14.0

and this is a sense of presence.

0:15.0

So I know that a lot of us,

0:17.0

a lot of people struggle with procrastination.

0:19.0

And when I say procrastination,

0:20.0

you probably know what I know is that

0:22.0

procrastination does not mean I'm doing nothing.

0:25.0

Praccination doesn't mean I'm doing nothing.

0:27.0

Praccination means I'm doing everything except for the one thing I'm supposed to be doing.

0:30.0

Doesn't it? Right, that's it.

0:32.0

If that's you, then you are struggling with something that's bigger than simple procrastination.

0:37.0

You're struggling with something that virtually every Christian has struggled with

0:41.0

all the way back to the time of Jesus and from then on in the early church.

0:45.0

So actually maybe 300 years after Christ.

0:48.0

In the early church, you had some people when Christianity became like the religion of the Roman Empire.

0:53.0

You had some people who went, were called to enter into the wilderness,

0:57.0

literally who go into the desert and live a little hut.

1:00.0

They were hermits and they just devoted their lives to penance,

1:03.0

they devoted their lives to prayer.

1:05.0

And those desert fathers and mothers, they call them desert fathers and mothers,

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