0:00.0	Glory to Jesus Christ. I'm Mother Natalia, a Byzantine Catholic nun from Christ the
0:04.7	bridegare monastery and this is Pines with Aquinas. Last week I introduced the
0:09.3	concept of the Eight Evil Thoughts which was brought about by Evagres the solitary and then developed by
0:16.3	Kachen and St. Gregory the Great and then even Thomas Aquinas
0:27.5	and then this week I wanted to start diving into the Eight Evil Thoughts themselves. But I'll start by just admitting that this is actually a re-recording. I recorded this episode yesterday and
0:37.0	after recording it I just was really convicted that I needed to
0:41.5	to change it and to try again, which I don't really have time for it.
0:45.0	So this is a great act of love for all of you.
0:48.0	But the reason I was convicted that I needed to try again is,
0:52.0	I feel like the first time I recorded.
0:55.0	There was a lot of information about gluttony and lust which are the evil thoughts that I'll go through today.
1:03.2	But I want these episodes to be more than just information
1:09.5	because I don't want it to be about having a list that you follow or checking boxes. I really want to even
1:18.8	more than go into the details about the adable thoughts to just kind of start to go into them and to
1:26.1	teach you to ask the right questions to try to help you a little bit in your discernment of what are the areas that you need to be working on.
1:37.0	But I will say that I can try to aid in that discernment but you really need to be doing that
1:44.5	discerning yourself and particularly with a spiritual director or at the very
1:48.8	least with someone who is further along in the spiritual life than you who you feel knows your heart well.
1:55.0	Because in part you might just be not seeing yourself clearly, not seeing your struggles, addictions your sins clearly but also because even the ones that you are seeing
2:10.4	we can't change everything at once and so maybe you're going to try to tackle all of the
2:15.8	eight evil thoughts at once and change everything in your life and never eat anything
2:19.8	again so that you're never gluttonous. But yeah, it's helpful to have someone to help you,
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