Posted in Christian, The Fathers, tagged "On the Soul and the Resurrection", St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Macrina on March 4, 2010| 1 Comment »
On the Soul and the Resurrection concludes, as the dying St. Macrina speaks to her brother about the body as compared to the resurrected body as the seed compares to the ear of wheat, and compares this to the unfallen bodies of humans when first created.
18:55.
I apologize for how long it’s taken me to complete this book. Thank you for your patience with me.
Posted in Christian, tagged An Introduction to the Devout Life, St. Francis de Sales, St. Francois de Sales on January 30, 2010| 2 Comments »
An Introduction to the Devout Life continues, with some good advice on sadness and depression.
Book 4, Chapter 12: On Sadness.
7:21.
Posted in Christian, tagged Introduction to the Devout Life, St. Francis de Sales, St. Francois de Sales on January 30, 2010| 1 Comment »
An Introduction to the Devout Life continues, with some good advice on worries.
Book 4, Chapter 11: On Anxiety.
8:35.
Posted in Christian, tagged Introduction to the Devout Life, St. Francis de Sales, St. Francois de Sales on January 24, 2010| Leave a Comment »
An Introduction to the Devout Life continues with more chapters on the nature of temptation, and how to avoid or defeat it.
32:50.
Happy St. Francis de Sales’ Day!
Posted in Christian, tagged An Introduction to the Devout Life, St. Francis de Sales, St. Francois de Sales on January 18, 2010| Leave a Comment »
An Introduction to the Devout Life continues, as we begin Book 4. Our good bishop encourages us not to care what people will say, and to have courage.
11:00.
Posted in Christian, tagged An Introduction to the Devout Life, St. Francis de Sales, St. Francois de Sales on January 18, 2010| Leave a Comment »
An Introduction to the Devout Life continues, with a very short chapter for the unmarried.
1:31.
This winds up Book 3. So after this chapter, we move over to another detail page over at archive.org for the next book. This should make downloading and finding chapters faster, with any luck.
Posted in Christian, tagged An Introduction to the Devout Life, St. Francis de Sales, St. Francois de Sales on January 18, 2010| Leave a Comment »
An Introduction to the Devout Life continues, with a chapter for widows who don’t intend to marry again.
12:31.
Posted in Christian, The Fathers, tagged "On the Soul and the Resurrection", St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Macrina on January 18, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Christian, tagged An Introduction to the Devout Life, St. Francis de Sales, St. Francois de Sales on January 8, 2010| Leave a Comment »
An Introduction to the Devout Life continues, with two chapters of advice for married people. I think most people will agree with most of it. However, being French, our good bishop of course insists on explaining the Theology of the Body parts of marriage. (Several centuries before the current theology, of course; but it’s not as if JPII just made this stuff up on his own.)
So in Chapter 39 he explains this all by talking about good eating habits, and inviting the reader to learn by analogy. Completely decorous, completely obvious what he means. Very clever. Enjoy.
25:42.
Posted in Christian, tagged An Introduction to the Devout Life, Introduction to the Devout Life, Little Way, St. Francis de Sales, St. Francois de Sales on December 20, 2009| 1 Comment »
An Introduction to the Devout Life continues, with another chapter which helped inspire St. Therese of Lisieux’s Little Way. We also hear about not working ourselves up with currently-vain wishes, and about being fair to our neighbors while not giving ourselves too much slack.
18:06.
I’m done with Christmas preparations, and I’ve got some days off. So I’ll see about catching up a little.
Posted in Christian, tagged Introduction to the Devout Life, St. Francis de Sales, St. Francois de Sales on December 15, 2009| Leave a Comment »
An Introduction to the Devout Life continues. In these chapters, we hear about helpful and unhelpful forms of recreation and games.
13:53.
Yes, I know I’m falling behind something fierce. I’ll see what I can do.
Posted in Christian, tagged Introduction to the Devout Life, St. Francis de Sales, St. Francois de Sales on December 7, 2009| Leave a Comment »
An Introduction to the Devout Life continues, with more good advice on conversation, and a short course in how not to talk about people behind their backs.
17:54.
Posted in Christian, The Fathers, tagged "On the Soul and the Resurrection", reincarnation, St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Macrina on December 1, 2009| Leave a Comment »
On the Soul and the Resurrection continues. St. Greg and St. Mac finish talking about the soul and purgatory, St. Macrina tells everybody to quit complaining and just suck it up when it comes to the divine plan, we move onto talking about the resurrection of the body, and we learn why believing in reincarnation takes all the fun out of food.
24:55.
Posted in Christian, tagged Introduction to the Devout Life, St. Francis de Sales, St. Francois de Sales on November 29, 2009| Leave a Comment »
An Introduction to the Devout Life continues, with a chapter on judging other people. (Don’t do it.)
13:28.
Posted in Christian, The Fathers, tagged "On the Soul and the Resurrection", St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Macrina on November 24, 2009| Leave a Comment »
On the Soul and the Resurrection continues, as we learn about the life of the soul after its initial separation from the body. We also learn that St. Macrina was of opinion that Purgatory and Hell were pretty much the same thing – the love of God drawing out what was good and destroying what was evil in the soul. I don’t think this is the current view (Hell is the absence of God is the usual view today), but I’m not really up on the theology of Hell. (Other than “Stay out of it.”)
22:47.
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