Day 42: Considerations When Moving Onward (Introduction to the Devout Life)

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🗓️ 4 December 2022

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Summary

To strengthen our resolve in pursuing the Devout Life, Saint Francis de Sales offers 5 meditations on the excellence of our souls, the greatness of virtues, the example of the saints, and the eternal love that comes from both Jesus and God the Father. Fr. Gregory and Fr. Jacob-Bertrand assure us that God will faithfully give us what we need to continually transform our lives and draw closer to his divine life.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Jacob Bertrand Jansick.
0:07.0	And I'm Father Gregory Pine.
0:09.0	And you're listening to the Catholic Classics Podcast,
0:11.5	where we seek to grow our prayer lives by learning from
0:14.0	the Church's greatest Saints and teachers. Spiritual reading can be challenging for
0:18.2	many Catholics so this podcast is here to help. Each season will read through a great work, unpack its timeless
0:24.8	wisdom and encourage you with practical tips for the pursuit of holiness. The
0:29.1	Catholic Classics podcast is brought to you by Ascension. This season, we are reading Ascension's edition of Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis DeSales.
0:38.0	To get your copy of the book and download the reading plan for this season,
0:42.0	visit Ascension Press.com slash Catholic
0:44.3	classics or text intro to 33 777. Be sure to follow us on your favorite
0:51.1	podcast app. This is day 42. Today we'll be reading
0:55.6	Part 5 exercises and councils for renewing the soul and strengthening her
1:00.0	devotion chapters 10 through 14, pages 455 through 463 in the Ascension edition of the book.
1:08.6	Before we get to the reading, let's take a review of what we'll be covering today. Over the last couple of episodes,
1:14.4	St Francis de Sales has been leading us to the end of his book by way of making
1:18.7	preparation to continue to live the devout life both in the short and the long term. This is an important
1:25.2	section because it calls our attention back to how he began introduction to the
1:29.6	devout life. By explaining that as many of us have experienced in our own ways, we often have the desire for the
1:35.8	devout life, but less often put those desires into action.
1:39.8	Through the first four parts of the book, St. Francis has given us the tools to be able to put these desires into action,
1:46.0	and now he's giving us the tools to keep these desires in action.
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