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

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This is day three.

Today we'll be reading part 1 on the councils and exercises

chapters 8 through 11 pages 47 through 59 in the ascension edition of the book.

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

In the last episode, we acknowledge those two main obstacles to our growth in conversion,

our conversion in conversation, and we identified them as mortal sin, habitual

mortal sin and then the attachment to sin are sometimes called the desire

for sin. So rather than just waiting for habitual sin, mortal sin to come to us,

we want to take the fight to everything that issues from sin or everything that draws us

into the life of sin. So in order to do that, we're going to start

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