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. The Catholic Classics podcast is brought to you by Ascension.

This season we are reading Ascension's edition of Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales.

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This is day 20. Today we'll be reading Part 3, certain councils on the practice of the virtues,

chapters 13 and 14, and that's pages 239 to 245 in the Ascension Edition of the book.

Before we get into the reading, a quick look at what we're covering today.

So we are picking up with what we treated in the last episode,

and again, we're talking about obedience, chastity, and poverty. So we covered

obedience and chastity and now we have one more section on chastity and then a

final section on poverty.

So again, recall that we're talking about those virtues,

which St. Francis de Sales thinks will benefit from

when it comes to living our devout lives,

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