Day 37: Receiving Consolation (Introduction to the Devout Life)

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🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Consolations are good, but they are not ends in themselves. Continuing his discourse on temptation, St. Francis de Sales warns against attaching ourselves to consolations and encourages us to instead attach ourselves to God. Fr. Gregory and Fr. Jacob-Bertrand guide us through discerning which consolations are evil and which consolations are fruitful and how to devote oneself to God in both circumstances.

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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
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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 3377.
0:47.0	Be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast app.
0:50.0	This is day 37.
0:52.0	Today we'll be reading part 4 necessary councils concerning
0:55.8	temptations that occur frequently in the Christian life chapter 13 pages
1:00.2	405 to 412 in the ascension edition of the book.
1:04.0	Before we get into the reading, a quick look at what we are covering today.
1:08.0	So, strangely enough, or perhaps not strangely enough,
1:12.0	while we're talking about temptations,
1:13.9	he will now turn, he'll pivot,
1:16.0	and start talking about consolations.
1:18.6	I think a lot of us would be like,
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