How to Live an Ordered Life in Quarantine

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Education

4.8 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Today on the show we take a look at a beautiful prayer by Thomas Aquinas in living an ordered life and I get super amped and sound like Tony Robbins except I tell you how pathetic you are a bunch ... you'll love it ... I think. Please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mattfradd Prayer for the Wise Ordering of One's Life (Written by Thomas Aquinas, tranlated by Paul Murray OP, from his excellent book Aquinas at Prayer: The Bible, Mysticism, and Poetry.) O merciful God, whatever is pleasing to you, may I ardently desire, wisely pursue, truly recognize, and bring to perfect completion. For the praise and glory of your name put order into my life, and grant that I may know what it is you require me to do, and help me to achieve whatever is fitting and necessary for the good of my soul. May my way, Lord, be yours entirely, upright and perfect, failing in neither prosperity nor adversity so that, in prosperity, I give you thanks, and in adversity serve patients, neither exalted in the former not dejected in the latter. May I not rejoice in anything unless it leads me to you, nor be saddened by anything unless it turns me from you. May I not desire to please or fear to displease anyone but you. May all passing things become worthless to me on your account, and all things that are yours be dear to me, and you, God, above all things. May all joy without you leave me tired and weary, And may I not desire anything apart from you. May all work that is done for you delight me, Lord, and all repose not centered on your presence be wearisome. Let me, my God, direct my heart to you often and let me grieve over my failure with determination to change. Make me, my God, humble without pretense, cheerful without frivolity, sad without dejection, mature without heaviness, quick-witted without levity, truthful without duplicity. Let me fear you without despair, and hope in you without presumption. Let me correct my neighbor without hypocrisy, and without pride edify him by word and example: obedient without contradiction, patient without murmuring. Give me, dearest God, a vigilant heart which no distracting thought can lure away from you. Give me a noble heart which no unworthy desire can ever debase. Give me an unconquered heart which no tribulation can fatigue. Give me a free heart which no violent temptation can enslave. Give me an upright heart which no perverse intention can hold fast. Grant me, Lord my God, intelligence in knowing you, diligence in seeking you, wisdom in finding you, conversation pleasing to you, perseverance in confidently waiting for you, and confidence in finally embracing you. Grant that as penance I may be afflicted with your hardships, As grace, make use along the way, of your favors, as glory, delight in your joys in the fatherland. amen SPONSORS EL Investments: https://www.elinvestments.net/pints Exodus 90: https://exodus90.com/mattfradd/ Hallow: http://hallow.app/mattfradd STRIVE: https://www.strive21.com/ GIVING Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mattfradd This show (and all the plans we have in store) wouldn't be possible without you. I can't thank those of you who support me enough. Seriously! Thanks for essentially being a co-producer coproducer of the show. LINKS Website: https://pintswithaquinas.com/ Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/matt-fradd FREE 21 Day Detox From Porn Course: https://www.strive21.com/ SOCIAL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mattfradd Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattfradd Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattfradd MY BOOKS Does God Exist: https://www.amazon.com/Does-God-Exist-Socratic-Dialogue-ebook/dp/B081ZGYJW3/ref=sr_1_9?dchild=1&keywords=fradd&qid=1586377974&sr=8-9 Marian Consecration With Aquinas: https://www.amazon.com/Marian-Consecration-Aquinas-Growing-Closer-ebook/dp/B083XRQMTF/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=fradd&qid=1586379026&sr=8-4 The Porn Myth: https://www.ignatius.com/The-Porn-Myth-P1985.aspx CONTACT Book me to speak: https://www.mattfradd.com/speakerrequestform Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Gooday, welcome to Pints with Aquinas. My name is Matt Frad. If you could sit down over a pint of beer with Thomas Aquinas and ask him anyone question, what would it be? Well, today, we are going to be asking Thomas Aquinas, how on earth are we supposed to live an ordered life in quarantine?
0:33.0	Yeah. quarantine. Welcome back to Pints with Aquinas. This is the show where you and I pull up a barstall next to the angelic doctor to discuss theology and philosophy. And today we're going to be talking about
0:36.8	how to live an ordered life.
0:38.5	Let's face it.
0:39.7	I'd say at least, I think this is probably a conservative estimate,
0:42.4	for the next 30 days, you and I are going to essentially be in lockdown.
0:46.9	We might go to the store, we might go to a park where there's not many people if they're open.
0:51.7	We might hang out with our family in the backyard, but for many of us,
0:57.0	we're going to be in some way, shape or form pretty much stuck at home. Okay? What kind of person
1:04.3	do you want to be after these 30 days are over? I know, I know it sounds very Tony Robbins asking
1:08.9	a question like that, but it's still, that doesn't
1:10.9	mean that it doesn't have legitimacy. Maybe you were doing pretty good with your New Year's
1:14.8	resolution throughout January. Maybe you were doing a pretty bloody good job into February. This
1:19.4	coronavirus lockdown quarantine thing has the potential, not just to derail you from your resolutions,
1:26.9	but to train you in sloth, to train you in
1:32.8	trivial activities. So by the time this quarantine is over, you might be a far worse person
1:40.5	than you are now and then you could have been if you decided to live an ordered life
1:44.6	throughout this time. Fair enough. By the way, I'm okay. Many of you have written to me and have
1:52.3	asked me how I'm doing. I'm doing okay. For those of you who missed it, I was rushed to the
1:58.1	emergency room by ambulance the other day. It would appear that my wife and I
2:02.9	have coronavirus, so we are in full on lockdown here. We have these lovely people bringing food
2:09.1	to our house, dropping it by our doors and then running away as quickly as possible. If you want to
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