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"Be sure that wherever our lot is cast we may and must aim at the perfect life."
Written over 400 years ago, Introduction to the Devout Life is still one of the most popular books for those pursuing holiness. St. Francis de Sales explains how to turn that desire for sanctity into resolutions that yield grace-filled results.
Themes include:
Pursuing a devout life whole-heartedly Incorporating prayer and sacraments into a busy
schedule Growing in virtue Battling wisely against temptation Making spiritual progress through daily, monthly, and yearly exercisesWhether you are just beginning your spiritual journey or are more advanced in the spiritual life, youâll be able to apply this timeless wisdom immediately. Let St. Francis de Sales illumine the path to holiness and strengthen your desire to walk that road with the Lord.
St. Francis de Sales (1567â1622) was the Bishop of Geneva and a renowned spiritual director. Preaching during the Counter-Reformation, he is estimated to have converted 70,000 Calvinists in his lifetime. He was a fervent proponent of the universal call to holiness and spent much of his time guiding lay people on the road to sanctity. Declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius IX in 1877, St. Francis is still helping to form saints through his many writings, of which Introduction to the Devout Life is the most famous.
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Introduction to the Devout Life full text: https://watch.formed.org/introduction-to-the-devout-life-by-st-francis-de-sales
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Timestamps
00:38 Preface
12:26 Part 1 â Counsels and Exercises for the Guidance of the Soul from Its First Desire After a Devout Life unto a Full Resolution of Pursuing the Same
12:38 True Devotion Explained
18:19 The Nature and Excellence of Devotion
23:17 Devotion is Suitable to Every Vocation and Profession
27:26 The Need of a Guide for those who would Enter Upon and Advance in the Devout Life
33:35 The First Step: Purifying the Soul
38:22 The First Purification: From Mortal Sin
40:56 The Second Purification: From All Sinful Affections
44:17 How to Affect This Second Purification
46:56 First Meditation, On Creation
53:26 Second Meditation, On the End for Which We Were Created
59:26 Third Meditation, On the Gifts of God
1:05:20 Fourth Meditation, On Sin
1:11:39 Fifth Meditation, On Death
1:19:00 Sixth Meditation, On Judgment
1:24:59 Seventh Meditation, On Hell
1:29:02 Eighth Meditation, On Paradise
1:34:05 Ninth Meditation, On the Choice Open to You Between Heaven and Hell
1:39:26 Tenth Meditation, On How the Soul Chooses the Devout Life
1:46:40How to Make a General Confession
1:49:23 A Sincere Protest Made with the Object of Confirming the Soulâs Resolution to Serve God as a Cojnclusion to its Acts of Penitence
1:53:58 Conclusion of This First Purification
1:55:53 The Necessity of Purging Away All Tendency to Venial Sins
2:00:35 It Is Necessary to Put Away All Inclination for Useless and Dangerous Things
2:03:14 All Evil Inclinations Must Be Purged Away
02:05:29 Part 2 â Counsels as to Uplifting the Soul to God in Prayer and the Use of the Sacraments
2:05:38 The Necessity of Prayer
2:11:30 A Short Method of Meditation in the Presence of God: The First Point of Preparation
2:17:05 Invocation: The Second Point of Preparation
2:18:38 Representing the Mystery to Be Meditated to Your Imagination: The Third Point of Preparation
2:20:49 Considerations: The Second Part of Meditation
2:22:16 Affections and Resolutions: The Third Part of Meditation
2:24:01 The Conclusion and Spiritual Bouquet
2:25:44 Some Useful Hints on Meditation
2:30:40 Concerning Dryness in Meditation
2:33:15 Morning Prayer
2:36:05 Evening Prayer and Examination of Conscience
2:38:03 Spiritual Refreshment
2:42:42 Aspirations, Brief Prayer, and Holy Thoughts
2:53:34 Holy Communion, and How to Receive It
2:58:17 The Other Public Offices of the Church
3:00:13 How the Saints Are United to Us
3:02:58 How to Hear and Read Godâs Word
3:05:05 How to Receive Inspirations
3:10:31 Confession
3:17:35 Frequent Communion
3:23:09 How to Communicate
03:28:01 Part 3 â Counsels Concerning the Practice of Virtue
03:28:08 How to Select That Which We Should Chiefly Practice
03:36:56 The Same Subject Continued
03:43:55 Patience
03:53:08 Greater Humility
03:59:02 Interior Humility
04:08:28 Humility Makes Us Rejoice in Our Own Abjection
04:15:11 How to Combine Due Care for a Good Reputation with Humility
04:22:40 Gentleness Towards Others and Remedies Against Anger
04:31:05 Gentleness Towards Ourselves
04:35:35 We Must Attend to the Business of Life Carefully, but Without Eagerness or Over-Anxiety
04:40:18 Obedience
04:45:43 Purity
04:49:05 How to Maintain Purity
04:52:48 Poverty of Spirit amid Riches
04:58:28 How to Exercise Real Poverty although Actually Rich
05:06:08 How to Possess a Rich Spirit amid Real Poverty
05:09:50 Friendship: Evil and Frivolous Friendship
05:13:31 Frivolous Attachments
05:18:48 Real Friendship
05:24:40 The Difference between True and False Friendship
05:28:57 Remedies against Evil Friendships
05:35:47 Further Advice concerning Intimacies
05:40:22 The Practice of Bodily Mortification
05:50:59 Society and Solitude
05:56:24 Modesty in Dress
06:00:20 Conversation: First, How to Speak of God
06:02:52 Unseemly Words and the Respect Due to Others
06:07:18 Hasty Judgments
06:17:28 Slander
06:28:27 Further Counsels as to Conversation
06:32:24 Amusements and Recreations: What Are Allowable
06:34:56 Forbidden Amusements
06:36:53 Balls and Other Lawful but Dangerous Amusements
06:41:59 When to Use Such Amusements Rightly
06:43:49 We Must Be Faithful in Things Great and Small
06:49:23 - A Well-Balanced, Reasonable Mind
06:53:33 - Wishes
06:58:15 - Counsels to Married People
07:11:47 - The Sanctity of the Marriage Bed
07:13:15 - Counsels to Widows
07:22:31 - One Word to Maidens
07:23:51 Part 4 â Counsels Concerning Some Ordinary Temptations
07:23:58 - We Must Not Trifle with the Words of Worldly Wisdom
07:29:29 - The Need of Good Courage
07:32:09 - Temptations and the Difference Between Experiencing Them and Consenting to Them
07:37:19 - Two Striking Illustrations of the Same
07:40:56 - Encouragement for the Tempted Soul
07:43:26 - When Temptation and Pleasure are Sin
07:47:23 - Remedies for Great Occasions
07:50:15 - How to Resist Minor Temptations
07:52:26 - How to Remedy Minor Temptations
07:55:02 - How to Strengthen the Heart Against Temptation
07:57:40 - Anxiety of Mind
08:03:27 - Sadness and Sorrow
08:08:40 - Spiritual and Sensible Consolations and How to Receive Them
08:23:23 - Dryness and Spiritual Barrenness
08:33:49 - An Illustration
08:41:07 Part 5 - Counsels and Practices for Renewing and Confirming the Soul in Devotion
08:41:15 - It Is Well Yearly to Renew Good Resolutions by Means of the Following Exercises
08:43:58 - Meditation on the Benefit Conferred on Us by God in Calling Us to His Service
08:48:55 - Examination of the Soul as to Its Progress in the Devout Life
08:52 :13 - Examination of the Soul's Condition as Regards God
08:56:52 - Examination of Your Condition as Regards Yourself
08:59:16 - Examination of the Soul's Condition as Regards Our Neighbor
09:00:43 - Examination as to the Affectations of the Soul
09:03:10 - The Affections to Be Excited After Such Examination
09:04:36 - Reflections Suitable to the Renewal of Good Resolutions
09:05:23 - First Consideration, On the Worth of Souls
09:08:13 - Second Consideration, On the Excellence of Virtue
09:10:01 - The Example of the Saints
09:11:48 - The Love That Jesus Christ Bears to Us
09:15:05 - The Eternal Love of God for Us
09:16:36 - General Affections That Should Result from These Considerations and Conclusion of the Exercise
09:19:16 - The Impressions That Should Remain After This Exercise
09:20:53 - An Answer to Two Objections That May Be Made to This Book
09:23:45 - Three Important and Final Counsels
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âLove is the lightâand in the end, the only lightâthat can always illuminate a world grown dim and give us the courage needed to keep living and working. Love is possible, and we are able to practice it because we are created in the image of God. To experience love and in this way to cause the light of God to enter into the worldâthis is the invitation I would like to extend with the present Encyclical.â
Deus Caritas Est, or âGod is Love,â was the first encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, released on December 25, 2005. This letter focuses on the nature of Christian love, particularly examining the relationship between Godâs love for humanity and the love Christians are called to show others. Benedict grounds his reflections in Scripture and tradition, aiming to clarify misunderstandings about Christian love in a contemporary world marked by both cynicism and sentimentality.
This episode comprises the second part, titled âCaritas: The Practice of Love by the Church as a Community of Love,â and the encyclical's conclusion.
Links:
Full text: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20051225_deus-caritas-est.html
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"They are the class of feelings we should haveâyes, have in an intense degreeâif we literally had the sight of Almighty God; therefore they are the class of feelings which we shall have, if we realize His presence."
This sermon appears among a collection of sermons originally written and preached by St. John Henry Newman before his conversion to Catholicism. In it, Newman emphasizes that true reverence arises from a deep, abiding awareness of God's presence.
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Reverence, a Belief in God's Presence full text: https://newmanreader.org/works/parochial/volume5/sermon2.html
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"You thought perhaps when learned Campion dies,
His pen must cease, his sugared tongue be still;
But you forgot how loud his death it cries
How far beyond the sound of tongue and quill."In 1581, a young Englishman named Henry Walpole attended the execution of the Jesuit Edmund Campion. As Campion was hung, drawn and quartered, Walpole stood close enough to be spattered with his holy blood. Though Campionâs fame in England was already great, Walpole would amplify it further with a splendid, lengthy poem, which became enormously popular among English Catholicsâso popular that the man who printed the book had his ears cut off as punishment.
In his poem Walpole wrote:
We cannot fear a mortal torment, we,
This martyrâs blood hath moistened all our hearts,
Whose parted quarters when we chance to see
We learn to play the constant Christianâs parts.This was more than wordplay: Two years after Campionâs death, Walpole became a priest, and was himself hung for the faith in 1595.
LinksLyra Martyrum: The Poetry of the English Martyrs: https://www.clunymedia.com/product/lyra-martyrum/
Catholic Culture Podcast #69âThe Poetry of the English MartyrsâBenedict Whalen https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/ep-69-poetry-english-martyrs-benedict-whalen/
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âThis is love in its most radical form. By contemplating the pierced side of Christ, we can understand the starting-point of this Encyclical Letter: âGod is loveâ. It is there that this truth can be contemplated. It is from there that our definition of love must begin. In this contemplation the Christian discovers the path along which his life and love must move.â
Deus Caritas Est, or âGod is Love,â was the first encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, released on December 25, 2005. This letter focuses on the nature of Christian love, particularly examining the relationship between Godâs love for humanity and the love Christians are called to show others. Benedict grounds his reflections in Scripture and tradition, aiming to clarify misunderstandings about Christian love in a contemporary world marked by both cynicism and sentimentality.
In this first part, titled âThe Unity of Love in Creation and in Salvation History,â Benedict explores two distinct yet intertwined dimensions of love, eros and agape, arriving at the newness which biblical faith brings to man's understanding of loveâa new understanding that finds its ultimate fulfillment in Jesus Christ, the incarnate love of God.
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Full text: https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20051225_deus-caritas-est.html
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"For we don't invent marriage... any more than we invent human language. It is part of the creation of humanity and if we're lucky we find it available to us and can enter into it. If we are very unlucky, we may live in a society that has wrecked or deformed this human thing."
Elizabeth Anscombe was a prominent 20th-century British philosopher, known for her influential work in ethics and her deep commitment to Catholic doctrine. In her essay 'Contraception and Chastity'âone of the earliest defenses of Pope Paul VI's encyclical, Humanae VitaeâAnscombe expertly explains the evil of contraception and contrasts its use with that of methods of natural family planning.
Read by Karina Majewski
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Contraception and Chastity full text: https://global.uwi.edu/sites/default/files/bnccde/PH19B/conchastity.html
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My oldest friend, mine from the hour When first I drew my breath; My faithful friend, that shall be mine, Unfailing, till my death...
"St. Michael" full text: https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/st-michael
"Angelic Guidance" full text: https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/angelic-guidance
"Guardian Angel" full text: https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/guardian-angel-2
Happy feast of the Guardian Angels!
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"In proportion as we lean to our own understanding, we are driven to do so for want of a better guide. Our first true guide, the light of innocence, is gradually withdrawn from us; and nothing is left for us but to 'grope and stumble in the desolate places,' by the dim, uncertain light of reason."
This sermon appears among a collection of sermons originally written and preached by St. John Henry Newman between 1825 and 1843, before his conversion to Catholicism. In it, Newman warns against the dangers of intellectual pride and underscores that the path to true wisdom lies in humble submission to God's commandments, not in self-reliant reasoning.
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The Self-wise Inquirer full text: https://www.newmanreader.org/works/parochial/volume1/sermon17.html
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"But to experience the gift of married love while respecting the laws of conception is to acknowledge that one is not the master of the sources of life but rather the minister of the design established by the Creator. Just as man does not have unlimited dominion over his body in general, so also, and with more particular reason, he has no such dominion over his specifically sexual faculties, for these are concerned by their very nature with the generation of life, of which God is the source."
Issued in 1968, Humanae Vitae is the final encyclical letter of Pope Paul VI. In it, he rejects the conclusions of the 1966 majority report of the Pontifical Commission on Birth Control, and instead reaffirms the Church's longstanding opposition to artificial contraception while promoting natural family planning as a moral alternative. The document remains a significant source text for Church teaching on responsible parenthood, marital love, and the sanctity of life.
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Humanae Vitae full text: https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae.html
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"For there are two, O emperor Augustus, by which the world is principally ruled: the sacred authority of pontiffs and the royal power."
Pope St. Gelasius I reigned as pope from 492 to 496 AD and is best known for articulating the doctrine of "the two swords." This doctrine explains that man is subject to two powers: the temporal and the spiritual. Whereas the temporal power wields natural authority to promote the common good, the spiritual power wields supernatural authority for the care of souls. While recognizing that these two powers complement one another, Gelasius asserts the ultimate primacy of the spiritual authority over the temporal.
Pope Gelasius' contributions helped shape the relationship between church and state in medieval Europe, and to this day the Church's position remains what he first described in this famous letter to the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I.
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Famuli Vestrae Pietatis full text: https://thejosias.com/2020/03/30/famuli-vestrae-pietatis/
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"And just as the all-holy body of God's Son, which was taken from her, rose from the dead on the third day, it followed that she should be snatched from the tomb, that the mother should be united to her Son; and as He had come down to her, so she should be raised up to Him."
John of Damascus, also known as St. John Damascene, was an influential monk and theologian of the 8th century. He is considered the last of the Greek Fathers and is primarily known for his definitive defense of icons against the iconoclast heresy. His influential body of work includes sermons, hymns, and an encyclopedia that summarizes the philosophical and theological developments of the Patristic era. His significant contributions to the Church's understanding of her doctrine and liturgy have earned him the title "Doctor of the Church."
In this sermonâone of three on the Dormition of MaryâSt. John reflects upon Mary's participation in the mysteries of salvation, describes the gathering of the apostles and angels to honor her departure from this world, and exhorts all to celebrate the great feast of her Assumption.
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"Constantine's submission of his power to the Church has been a pattern for all Christian monarchs since, and the commencement of her state establishment to this day; and, on the other hand, the fortunes of the Roman empire are in prophecy apparently connected with her in a very intimate manner, which we are not yet able fully to comprehend. If any event might be said to call for a miracle, it was this."
In this chapter from Newman's Essays on Miracles, written in his Anglican period, Newman evaluates the historical and evidential support for the miraculous event which led to Constantine's conversion to Christianity around A.D. 311-312.
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Appearance of the Cross in the Sky to Constantine full text: https://www.newmanreader.org/works/miracles/essay2/chapter5-4.html
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"So the man whom Satan has smitten ought not to be ashamed to confess his sin, and depart from it, and entreat for himself the medicine of penitence. For gangrene comes to the wound of him who is ashamed to show it, and harm comes to his whole body; and he who is not ashamed has his wound healed, and again returns to go down into the conflict."
St. Aphrahat is known in the tradition as âthe Persian Sage.â Born in the late third century in the Persian Empire, he flourished amid persecution and is the earliest prominent witness to Syriac Christianity. He wrote in a dialect of Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus, and maintained close contact with Judaism, demonstrating a profound knowledge of Hebrew Scriptures and Jewish customs. He is best known for his collection of twenty-three writings called the "Demonstrations."
Demonstration VII concerns penitents. Composed in 336-337 A.D., it is the earliest work to treat of the early Church's approach to the sacrament of penance and pastoral care with such precision.
Links
Demonstration VII, On Penitents full text: https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/aphrahat_dem7.htm
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"Your very perplexity in reconciling the surface of things with our Lord's announcements, the very temptation you lie under to explain away the plain words of Scripture, shows you that your standard of good and evil, and the standard of all around you, must be very different from God's standard."
In this sermon from his Anglican period, Newman reflects upon the challenging truth proclaimed uniformly throughout Scripture: the chosen are few, though many are called.
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Many Called, Few Chosen full text: https://newmanreader.org/works/parochial/volume5/sermon18.html
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âKeep his commandments, and you will have a cure for sin.â
The Shepherd of Hermas is an apocryphal text written in Rome in the 2nd century. It belongs to the category of "apocalyptic" literature, as it relates a series of revelations given to its titular character, Hermas, who may or may not also have been the work's author.
The Shepherd of Hermas was widely read and respected in the early Church, with some Church Fathers (such as Irenaeus and Origen) even considering it part of canonical scripture.
The text is divided into three main sections: Visions, Mandates, and Parables. Taken together, they serve as an exhortation to repentance.
Part 4: Conclusion
00:00 Intro
00:39 Ninth Parable - Chapter 1 03:35 Chapter 2 05:27 Chapter 3 06:40 Chapter 4 09:12 Chapter 5 11:18 Chapter 6 13:12 Chapter 7 15:15 Chapter 8 17:39 Chapter 9 20:07 Chapter 10 21:59 Chapter 11 24:58 Chapter 12 27:45 Chapter 13 30:38 Chapter 14 32:54 Chapter 15 35:21 Chapter 16 37:36 Chapter 17 39:31 Chapter 18 41:44 Chapter 19 43:28 Chapter 20 44:46 Chapter 21 45:56 Chapter 22 47:10 Chapter 23 48:37 Chapter 24 50:00 Chapter 25 50:36 Chapter 26 53:06 Chapter 27 53:50 Chapter 28 56:08 Chapter 29 57:30 Chapter 30 59:11 Chapter 31 01:01:05 Chapter 32 01:02:48 Chapter 33 01:04:14 Tenth Parable - Chapter 1 01:05:45 Chapter 2 01:07:21 Chapter 3 01:09:14 Chapter 4This work was released in its entirety in episodic format.
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