Day 34: Consenting to Temptation (Introduction to the Devout Life)

Catholic Classics

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🗓️ 26 November 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Why does God allow temptation? When does experiencing temptation become sinful? St. Francis de Sales highlights the dangers of inviting temptations while pursuing the Devout Life. Fr. Gregory and Fr. Jacob-Bertrand explore practical ways to help us cling to Christ rather than temptation through setting boundaries and practicing prudence.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Gregory Pine.
0:06.0	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.
0:30.4	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
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0:50.0	This is day 34. Today we'll be reading part 4 necessary councils concerning temptations that occur frequently in the Christian life, chapters 4 through 6, which are pages
1:01.0	379 to
1:03.0	387 in the Ascension Edition of the book.
1:07.0	Before we get into the reading, a quick look then at what we are covering today.
1:11.0	As Part 4, or the title of of part four has given us to understand, we're going to be
1:16.2	talking about temptation for a while. So in this particular section he's going to start
1:21.1	with some illustrations of temptations so that way he can help
1:24.7	us to sort out what it means to kind of be posed with a temptation and then to
1:30.4	entertain or engage or consent to a temptation. So he goes on to describe these
1:36.7	different types of interactions and he gives us yeah different examples but also
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