Day 5: The Goal of Devotions

Catholic Classics

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🗓️ 12 June 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Devotions are meant to lead us into loving communion with God. Fr. Gregory and Rebecca explain how practices like the Rosary, novenas, and spiritual reading can help lead us into God’s presence. They also encourage us not to lose sight of the One those practices are meant to draw us toward. Today, we are reading Part 2: Third Letter and Fourth Letter.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Rebecca Dockertie.
0:01.7	And I'm Father Gregory Pine.
0:03.0	And you're listening to The Catholic Classics podcast, where we seek to grow our
0:06.7	interior lives by learning from the church's greatest saints and teachers.
0:10.6	Each season will read through a great work, explain its spiritual principles, and help you
0:14.6	apply its timeless wisdom to your life.
0:16.7	The Catholic Classics podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:19.9	This season, we are reading Ascension's exclusive translation of practice of the presence
0:24.2	of God by Brother Lawrence.
0:26.2	This is day five.
0:27.6	Today we will be reading part two, third, and fourth letter.
0:31.2	A few reminders before we get started.
0:33.6	To get your own copy of Ascension's edition of practice of the presence of God, go to
0:37.8	ascensionpress.com slash presence.
0:41.0	Before we get into the reading, a quick look at what we're covering today.
0:44.4	Today we'll look at the third letter and the fourth letter where Brother Lawrence
0:47.7	talks about the ends and the means, the end being in the presence of God.
0:52.1	Let's get started.
0:55.0	Third letter, to the same. My reverend and most honored mother, I've received from
1:01.6	Mademoiselle de N, the rosaries that you entrusted to her. I'm surprised that you have
1:07.3	not written to me to tell me what you think of the book I sent you. I'm sure
1:11.4	that you have received it. Take up this practice diligently in your later years, better late than
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