Day 9: Dryness in Prayer (Introduction to the Devout Life)

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🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

How do you enter into prayer when you don’t want to pray? Fr. Gregory and Fr. Jacob-Bertrand continue to explore the advice offered by St. Francis de Sales on how to enter into prayer. In particular, this episode deals with the difficulty of dryness in prayer and how to persevere through it.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Father Jacob Bertrand Jansick.
0:07.0	And I'm Father Gregory Pine.
0:08.7	And you're listening to the Catholic Classics Podcast, where we seek to grow our prayer lives by learning from the
0:13.7	Church's greatest saints and teachers. Spiritual reading can be challenging for
0:17.8	many Catholics so this podcast is here to help. Each season will read
0:21.9	through a great work, unpack its timeless wisdom, and encourage
0:25.2	you with practical tips for the pursuit of holiness. The Catholic Classics podcast is brought to you by
0:30.5	Ascension. This season we're reading Ascension's edition of
0:34.0	Introduction to the Devout Life by St Francis de Sales. To get your copy of the book
0:38.8	and download the reading plan for this season visit Ascension Press.com slash Catholic Classics or text intro to
0:45.6	33 777. Be sure to follow us on your favorite podcast app. This is day nine. Today we'll be reading part two instructions for elevating the soul to
0:56.2	God through prayer and the sacraments. Chapters 9 through 12 pages 131 through 139 in the
1:02.3	Ascension edition of this book.
1:05.0	Before we get into the reading, a quick look at what we'll cover today.
1:10.0	In this episode, we'll continue from St. Francis and his advice for mental
1:15.9	prayer or meditation how to enter into this type of prayer. Recall that all this
1:21.2	begins by putting ourselves in the presence of God, as St Francis says.
1:26.0	We do this only by God's grace, asking him for the grace to pray.
1:31.0	I think something that we all experience in prayer in this spiritual life is dryness, dryness in prayer.
1:36.6	Perhaps nothing seems to be happening.
1:38.0	I don't hear or feel anything.
1:39.8	I don't want to pray.
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