Rediscovering the Art of Living
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Pope Benedict XVI once said that we have lost the “art of living,” but what does that really mean? Today, Dr. Sri dives into what it means to rediscover the art of living, and how we can pass it on to our friends, family, and loved ones. The world likes to tell us that the highest form of enlightenment is thinking for ourselves and ridding our lives of traditions, but in doing so we’re also ridding them from the teachings of the Church, and of the summation of our faith.
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_ _The secular world likes to tell us that we can pave our own way through life, only using our own resources and making our own truths, but by living according to our own judgement we are blocked off to the classical roots of our faith and what this life is meant to be.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:14.4 | You can be a very devout Catholic, and still not know how to live life well. |
| 0:20.4 | You might have tremendous faith, you may pray the rosary, but be a little uncertain, how |
| 0:24.7 | do you raise children in this world? |
| 0:27.8 | How do you build a strong marriage with your spouse? |
| 0:30.8 | You can be someone who does a Eucharistic adoration, you watch EWTN, you read good Catholic |
| 0:36.6 | books, and still be a little uncertain, how do you live friendship and Christian community with |
| 0:41.9 | others? I think the challenge today, Pope Benedict once said, it's not simply a crisis of faith, |
| 0:48.5 | you know, out there in the world, but as the world has turned away from gospel values, |
| 0:53.2 | people grow up in a secular world and they no longer know how to live. We don't know the basics |
| 0:58.6 | anymore. We know the basics of friendship, marriage, family life. We have lost the art of |
| 1:03.9 | living, Pope Benedict once said, we have lost the art of living. I have to tell you, from my own |
| 1:09.3 | experiences, I am blessed to travel in different parts of the world and give different presentations |
| 1:14.2 | that the kinds of talks that tend to resonate with my audiences, the most are the ones that really |
| 1:19.0 | touch on how to live life, how to live friendship, dating, how to live marriage, how to raise children. |
| 1:26.1 | People are hungry for this. They're wanting to know how do we do this? I want to do this well, |
| 1:30.5 | and these are from devout people. They love Jesus. They know their Catholic faith, |
| 1:35.1 | but something has not been passed on to them. You see, my friends, there's been a great tradition |
| 1:40.9 | on how to live life well and how to be a good friend, how to be a good husband or wife, |
| 1:46.5 | how to be a good mother or father, and that tradition of the virtues and how to live these most |
| 1:52.0 | fundamental relationships was passed on from generation to generation, from many, many centuries. |
| 1:57.6 | But in our modern secular world, we've turned away and have broken away from not just the gospel |
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