Hi, I'm Father Gregory Pine.

And I'm Father Jacob Bertrand Jansick.

And you're listening to the Catholic Classics podcast,

where we seek to grow our prayer lives by learning from the church's greatest saints and teachers.

Spiritual reading can be challenging for many Catholics, so this podcast is here to help.

Each season will read through a great work, unpack its timeless wisdom, and

encourage you with practical tips for the pursuit of holiness.

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This season we are reading Ascension's edition of Introduction

to the Devout Life by St Francis de Sales.

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for this season,

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Well, a big welcome to the season introduction, so this is the first episode

episode. I guess we had one previously, but was more like a commercial. So we're very

delighted to have you joining us here. Today we'll be sharing a little bit about

what we'll be doing on the podcast in general and then give you a brief overview

of this season which is dedicated to our reading of and commenting on the Introduction to the Devout Life which is written by St. Francis de Sales and you're about to learn more things about it all in nice little bite-size episodes. So yeah, we're very excited.

So let's go ahead and get started.

First, let's just talk a little bit about the podcast itself,

maybe the inspiration for it and what you might hope to come away with it. So each season and

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