Day 4: Focus on God (Introduction to the Devout Life)

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🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Gregory and Fr. Jacob-Bertrand continue through four more meditations from St. Francis de Sales. These meditations focus primarily on sin, death, judgment, and hell. Fr. Gregory and Fr. Jacob-Bertrand explain how to keep these things in mind while also keeping our focus on God and his mercy.

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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 tips for the pursuit of holiness.
0:27.0	The Catholic Classics podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:30.5	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.
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0:50.0	This is day four.
0:51.0	Today we'll be reading part 1 on the councils and exercises
0:54.2	chapters 12 through 15 pages 61 through 74 in the ascension edition of the book
1:00.1	Before we get into the reading though a quick look at what we'll be covering today.
1:05.0	So as we highlighted in the last episode, we are now in the midst of a series of 10 meditations
1:11.0	on different aspects of the devout life or just of the Christian life more
1:14.4	broadly. So this section gives us four more meditations and there are still more to come so
1:19.7	you can enjoy those in their turn. These would be what we might consider the quintessentially, that's to say, the kind of, as we might expect,
1:29.2	dower meditations.
1:30.9	So perhaps you've read the spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and you know that there's considerable
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