Day 22: The Necessity and Caution of Friendship (Introduction to the Devout Life)

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🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Today we return to the theme of friendship. Saint Francis de Sales describes the necessity and danger of communion, arguing that a true friendship communicates in virtue. Fr. Gregory and Fr. Jacob-Bertrand discuss friendship between men and women, pointing out concrete and practical examples of how to approach such relationships virtuously.

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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.
0:30.5	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.
0:50.0	This is day 22. Today we'll be reading part 3, which is certain councils on the practice of the virtues,
0:57.0	chapters 18 through 20, and that's pages 259 through 269 in the Ascension Edition of the book.
1:04.0	Before we get into the reading,
1:06.0	we'll take a quick look then at what we're going to be covering today.
1:09.0	So in the last episode,
1:11.0	we described some of St. Francis to Sales meditations on friendship and
1:14.7	today we're going to return to the theme of friendship. So here we see how St
1:20.0	Francis to Sales is nervous not inordinately nervous but just nervous about
1:24.7	unchassity so the subtle and small ways that unchassity can arise in
1:29.1	relationships so he'll devote sometime in this section to healthy friendship, specifically those healthy
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