Day 19: The Need for Chastity, Poverty, and Obedience (Introduction to the Devout Life)

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🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

After covering patience, humility, and meekness, St. Francis de Sales shifts the conversation towards poverty, chastity, and obedience. Fr. Gregory and Fr. Jacob-Bertrand help us to understand why these virtues are not reserved only for religious or clergy, but are important for all pursuing the Devout Life.

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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
0:45.0	3.377. Be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast app. Today is day 19 and
0:52.0	today will be reading part 3 certain councils on the practice of the virtues
0:55.9	chapters 10 through 12 and those would be pages
0:59.3	227 to 238 in the asc Edition of the book.
1:04.0	Now, before we get into today's reading, a quick look at what we'll be covering today.
1:09.0	So here, we're at a kind of hinge point in this part in part three because we're
1:15.8	beginning with humility and then we're touching on meekness as a part of
1:19.9	humility and then now at this stage we're transitioning to obedience, chastity, and
1:25.3	poverty. So remember we began this part by saying all right let's treat the
1:29.6	different virtues which will help us in our devout lives to become prayers, to become worshippers of God.
1:35.0	And St Francis said, we're going to highlight those things which might not show up on your radar but are going to prove super important.
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