Day 14: Choosing Virtues (Introduction to the Devout Life)

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🗓️ 6 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Here in the third part of Introduction to the Devout Life, we are focusing primarily on virtue. Today, St. Francis de Sales is taking us through how to choose which virtues, in particular, we need to cultivate in our lives.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Gregory Pine.
0:05.0	And I'm Father Jacob Bertrand Jansick.
0:08.0	And you're listening to the Catholic Classics Podcast,
0:11.0	where we seek to grow our prayer lives by learning from the church's
0:13.7	greatest saints and teachers. Spiritual reading can be challenging for many Catholics
0:17.6	so this podcast is here to help. Each season will read through a great work
0:21.8	unpack its timeless wisdom, and encourage you with practical
0:25.2	tips for the pursuit of holiness. The Catholic Classics podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:30.4	This season we are reading Ascension's edition of Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales.
0:36.1	To get your copy of the book and download the reading plan for this season, visit ascension
0:40.6	press.com slash Catholic classics or text Intro to 3377.
0:47.0	Be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast app.
0:50.0	This is day 14.
0:52.0	Today we'll be reading part 3, which is certain councils on the practice of the virtues,
0:57.0	and we're reading chapters 1 and 2, which are pages 179 to 189 in the Ascension Edition of the book.
1:03.6	So before we get into today's reading, here's a quick look at what we're covering.
1:08.6	We just started, the third part, and the third part is the longest of the five parts. So here, after having talked
1:14.8	about prayer and sacraments, we're turning to the life of virtue and specifically those virtues
1:20.2	that we want to cultivate in order to grow in our devout life in order to grow in our
1:24.6	life of prayer. So these particular chapters kind of they set for us the lay of the
1:30.2	land they give us a sense of what we're about to do. And then when it comes to cultivating the life of virtue,
1:36.4	they're going to help us to choose those virtues which we practice. And what we'll see is that it's not a typical arrangement,
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