Day 23: Council on Friendship (Introduction to the Devout Life)

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🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Completing his examination of friendship, Saint Francis de Sales offers advice on companionship for those seeking to live the Devout Life. He discusses the presence of imperfection and sin within friendship. Fr. Gregory and Fr. Jacob-Bertrand encourage us to analyze the good and evil of our own relationships.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Jacob Bertrand Jansick.
0:07.0	And I'm Father Gregory Pine.
0:08.6	And you're listening to the Catholic Classics Podcast, where we seek to grow our prayer lives by learning from the
0:14.0	Church's greatest Saints and teachers. Spiritual reading can be challenging for
0:18.2	many Catholics so this podcast is here to help. Each season will read
0:22.4	through a great work, unpack its timeless wisdom, and
0:25.2	encourage you with practical tips for the pursuit of holiness. The Catholic Classics Podcast
0:30.3	is brought to you by Ascension. This season we're reading Ascension's edition of
0:34.6	Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales. To get your copy of
0:39.2	the book and download the reading plan for this season, visit Ascension Press.
0:43.0	Com slash Cathic Classics, or text Intro to 33 777.
0:49.0	Be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast app.
0:52.3	This is day 23. Today we'll be reading part 3
0:55.3	certain councils for the practice of the virtues chapters 21 through 22 pages
1:01.0	271 through 177 and the Ascension Edition of the book.
1:06.0	Before we get into the reading though, let's take a quick look at what we're covering today.
1:11.0	Over the course of the last few chapters, we've been reading about relationships, about friendships in particular.
1:17.0	We've talked about their importance and their role in the about life, how we are made to go to God together and to help lead and strengthen one another in our pursuit of holiness and devotion.
1:28.0	St Francis is also cautious here about the different types of friendships we keep. It's probably easy enough for us to identify
1:35.4	friendships or relationships in our lives that haven't been best for us. St Francis too is concerned that we pursue
1:41.1	friendships that are conducive to holiness and the devout life.
1:45.7	So to that end, we're going to look at some identifying differences between true and false friendships. Let's say a prayer and start friendships.
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