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Methods for Increasing Virtue. For real this time. Really. Wishing to mortify one’s passions. Are we avoiding opportunities for virtue? Hey, that’s pretty mild for a 16th century guy! Is my hair-shirt showing? Loving our enemies implies humility. Blab it and grab it – uh… no.

Seamless editing – did you hear it? Whole, ungrained wheat… mmmmm? Shun disordered pleasures so that we can really enjoy “The Good.” Practicing the opposite virtue… of the vices with which we struggle. We don’t get virtuous without acting virtuously. Next, on Fr. Scupoli Live: Seeking Crosses or Accepting What is Given… Caller? We suffer out of obedience, not just for the sake of suffering. Exactly don’t do that – there are plenty of crosses out there, inherent to conforming ourselves to God’s will. Isn’t there some other vice I could work on? You don’t have to come to Calcutta, you have people to love right around you, right now. Where the Rubber of virtue meets the road. The holy life is NOT an “easy” life. Two steps forward is not progress, unless it is followed by two more, and two more…. Ergonomic crosses? Remember, though: when you know you are headed for a fall, in other words, if you are at the point of “dude, if I stay here any longer, I’m toast” then run away. The examples of the Saints are examples of the Saints; we may emulate and imitate what they did, but we don’t always copy their exact actions. We have to be careful not to get ourselves ahead of ourselves, and then in trouble – you know? Vicious men are most inclined to think others like themselves. Three great axioms: Location, location, location; Marsha, Marsha, Marsha; and humility, humility, humility. Light that couch on fire!

Resources mentioned in this episode:
CCC 1803
The Spiritual Combat
The Imitation of Christ
Interior Castles
Introduction to the Devout Life

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