Day 26: The Simplicity of Prayer (Story of a Soul)

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🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Not many people would describe prayer as something simple. However, the way in which St. Thérèse describes it conveys the possibility of simplicity in prayer. Fr. Jacob-Bertrand and Fr. Michael-Joseph reflect on prayer as friendship with God and how prayer may not be easy, but it can be simple.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Jacob Bertrand Jansick.
0:07.0	And I'm Father Michael Joseph Paris.
0:09.3	And you are listening to the Catholic Classics Podcast, where we seek to grow our interior lives
0:14.3	by learning from the church's greatest saints and teachers.
0:17.1	Each season will read through a great work,
0:19.3	explain its spiritual principles,
0:21.2	and help you apply its timeless wisdom to your life.
0:24.1	The Catholic Classics Podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:27.8	This season we're reading Ascension's edition of Story of A Soul by St. Torres of Liseu.
0:33.0	A few reminders before we get started.
0:35.0	To download the reading plan for Story of a Soul,
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1:02.8	This is day 26. Today we will be reading chapter 11 pages 309 through
1:10.2	317 in the ascension Edition of the book.
1:13.4	Before we get into the reading though, a quick look at what we're covering today.
1:16.7	So we're continuing as I just mentioned with Chapter 11, the final chapter of the story of a soul and in this final chapter
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