Day 40: Renewing Resolutions (Introduction to the Devout Life)

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🗓️ 2 December 2022

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Summary

As we commit to living the devout life, how do we renew our resolutions along the way? St. Francis begins this final part of the book by offering us practical advice for persevering in the spiritual life as we inevitably experience trials, personal failures, and changing seasons. Fr. Gregory and Fr. Jacob remind us to never give up when we fail because God can use our imperfections to perfect us in holiness.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Jacob Bertrand Jansick.
0:07.0	And I'm Father Gregory Pine.
0:08.8	And you're listening to the Catholic Classics podcast where we seek to grow our prayer lives by learning from the Church's
0:14.1	greatest Saints and teachers. Spiritual reading can be challenging for many
0:18.0	Catholics, so this podcast is here to help. Each season will read through a
0:22.1	great work, unpack its timeless wisdom, and encourage
0:25.1	you with practical tips for the pursuit of holiness. The Catholic Classics podcast is brought to you
0:30.3	by Ascension. This season, we're reading Ascension's edition of
0:33.9	Introduction to the Devout Life by St Francis de Sales. To get your copy of the book and
0:38.4	download the reading plan for this season, visit Ascension Press.com
0:41.9	slash Catholic Classics or text intro to 3.377.
0:47.6	Be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast app.
0:50.9	This is day 40.
0:52.1	Today we'll be reading Part 5 exercises and councils for renewing the soul and
0:57.1	strengthening her devotion. Chapters 1 through 3, pages 431 through 439 in the Ascension edition of this book.
1:05.0	Before we get into the reading, let's take a look at what we'll be covering today.
1:10.0	In this final part of Introduction to the Devout, St. Francis de Sales begins to prepare us to sort of go forth with all of the lessons that he has taught us.
1:19.0	The temptation might be to think that we're walking away with a checklist or a sort of to-do list in the life of devotion,
1:25.9	that if I do X, Y, and Z, then I'll be set in the devout life.
1:30.3	But St Francis, he warns against this, not just in this part, but throughout, that this is not his intention.
1:36.0	His intention at the beginning and his intention at the end is that he is trying to form our lives, not give us a to-do list. So in these opening chapters St Francis
1:46.1	encourages us to recognize that we will need to continually renew our dedication and intention
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