Day 5: Choose Heaven (Introduction to the Devout Life)

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🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In the final meditations from St. Francis de Sales, he takes time to meditate upon Heaven. Fr. Gregory and Fr. Jacob-Bertrand explain how this leads us to a point where we must choose between Heaven and Hell.

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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, 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.
0:30.0	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 five.
0:52.0	Today we'll be reading part 1 on the Councils and Exercises Chapter 16 through 19,
0:58.0	pages 75 through 88 in the Ascension Edition of the book.
1:02.0	Before we get into the reading, a quick look at what we are covering today.
1:06.0	So a couple of episodes, we began this series of 10 meditations,
1:10.0	and in this section we'll pick up the final three meditations as we consider heaven and then we pose
1:17.0	ourselves with St. Francis sales between heaven and hell and renounce hell and choose heaven.
1:23.0	So it's a kind of decisive point
1:25.0	that permits us to kind of lay firmer grasp on our own conversion.
1:31.0	And he's also going to use it practically as a way to
1:34.0	transition into the final main theme of part one which is preparing a general
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