Day 2: Preparing for the Journey (Introduction to the Devout Life)

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🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

What do we need in this journey towards the devout life? Fr. Gregory and Fr. Jacob-Bertrand share that some of the essentials for this journey are accompaniment, purgation, and the sacraments. However, one of the greatest essentials is the sacraments.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Gregory Pine.
0:06.0	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 tips for the pursuit of holiness.
0:27.0	The Catholic Classics podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:30.0	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 two.
0:52.0	Today we'll be reading part 1 on the Councils and Exercises,
0:55.6	chapters 4 through 7, pages 35 through 46 in the Ascension Edition of the book.
1:01.3	Before we get into the reading, a quick look at what we'll be
1:04.0	covering today. So after our first official episode where we described what the
1:08.5	devout life is and how the beginnings of the devout life kind of look in your interior life.
1:14.0	Now we're going to tease out what the beginning stages of conversion
1:18.3	are going to look like or how they're going to take shape.
1:21.6	So in this particular one, in this particular
1:23.9	reading section, we'll focus on what it means to be in conversation about your
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