Glory to Jesus Christ. I'm Mother Natalia, a Byzantine Catholic nun from Christ to the Bridegroom

monastery and this is Pines with Aquinas. We're continuing on with our series about the

Eight Evil Thoughts and if you haven't seen the introduction to this series or you're not

familiar with the Eight Evil Thoughts I would recommend that you go back and listen to the

introduction episode that I did which I think came out three weeks ago.

And yeah, I think that's just a really helpful, it's helpful context for what I'm talking about with the evil thoughts and with the passions and things like that.

And I'm primarily using Dr Jean-Claude Larshe's therapy of spiritual illnesses, which is just an amazing compilation of different

teachings of the fathers about the Eastern ascetical tradition. And so much of what I'm saying is just paraphrasing him and and also quoting the fathers.

So today we're talking about Acadia and anger and I want to, so St. Gregory the Great,

I mentioned this in that introduction episode, but St. Gregory the Great, I mentioned this in that introduction episode but St. Gregory the Great

blends Acadia and sadness when he receives the medieval thoughts and in the process of them becoming the seven deadly

sins he he blends Acadia and sadness but the eastern aesthetical tradition

distinguishes between these two and And I think it's important for me to do that for you in part because

I'm simply trying to inform you about the eight evil thoughts and so I want to give you accurate information,

but also because I think if you're only thinking of the sadness aspect of Acadia, which is a part of it, then you're going to be locked

into just that part and you're going to miss another big part of Acadia, which is really

the part that I want to focus on.

So Dr. Larshei mentions that the fundamental difference between Acadia and sadness,

these two of the eight evil thoughts, is that Acadia has no precise motivation,

whereas sadness comes from very specific motivations. You can listen to the episode

I did on sadness if you'd like to hear more about that.

And St. John Cashin says that with Acadia there is an unreasonable mental turmoil

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