Day 41: Attachments and Desires (The Confessions of St. Augustine)

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🗓️ 11 November 2023

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Summary

Moderating our bodily attachments and desires is essential for spiritual growth. St. Augustine describes the ways our bodily desires and attachments can become distorted. From love of food to love of music, every earthly attachment can turn us away from God if we become overly reliant on them. Fr. Jacob Bertrand and Fr. Gregory invite us to consider a holy detachment from the things of this world so we can let God fill us completely. Today’s readings are Book 10, Chapters 31-34.

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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 interior lives by learning from the church's greatest
0:14.9	Saints and teachers. Each season will read through a great work, explain its spiritual principles,
0:20.3	and help you apply its timeless wisdom to your life.
0:23.0	The Catholic Classics Podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:27.0	This season we are reading Ascension's edition of Confessions by St. Augustine.
0:30.0	A few reminders before we get started. To download the reading plan for
0:34.1	Confessions, visit Ascension Press.com slash Catholic Classics or text Confessions to
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0:47.0	This is day 41.
0:48.0	Today we will be reading Book 10, chapters 31 through 34,
0:51.0	on the Ascension Edition of the book.
0:53.0	We wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped support this
0:57.1	podcast financially. Your support is so appreciated and helps us to reach as many
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1:08.6	Before we get into the readings,
1:09.8	a quick look at what we're covering today. So recall we have described this whole movement,
1:16.0	the latter half of Book 10, as a kind of general examination of conscience as
1:21.1	Augustine makes something of a general confession and he's
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