Into The Deep #54: The Spiritual Combat – Ch. 33-43
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.
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Into The Deep #53: The Spiritual Combat – Ch. 33
Paths to Virtue. Smooth segues – or not. Subduing our passions (discussed at length!) Are we habitually and firmly disposed towards the good? Infusion of the theological virtues: Faith, Hope, & Love.
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Into The Deep #52: The Spiritual Combat – Ch. 28-32
Episode #52. Tactics of the Devil. Darkness of running from sin to sin. Life without God is not any fun. Opportunities to sin. Living out the consequences of where we’ve been. Livin’ la viva chapter 29. Presumption. Bad thing. Agreeing to the value proposition of virtue rather than striving to increase it. It isn’t supposed [...]
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Into The Deep #51: The Spiritual Combat – Ch. 27
Episode #51. Dr. Lee semester recap. Three classes on the Trinity! That’s the kind o humor you have come to expect from Into The Deep… Relentless, varied attacks of the devil. Diviso Textus… Mmmm… Latin… Disbelief in the devil. Obsession with the devil. The devil trembles at the name of God. The best way [...]
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Into The Deep #50: The Spiritual Combat – Ch. 24-26
Episode #50. Shhhhhhh! “I have often repented for having spoken, but never for remaining silent.” Do we love the sounds of our own voices? Give careful governance to our habits of speech. Be Counter-Cultural: be Quiet. So… when we say we want “peace”… do we want OUR peace, or His peace. Or do we want [...]
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Into The Deep #49: The Spiritual Combat – Ch. 21-23
Episode #49. Sensitive 90s appetites. Pleasure itself isn’t bad; only when it is for its own sake… then Complete Corruption. Mmmmmm…. Aristotle. The True, the Good, and the Pleasurable. God is THE. ULTIMATE. CAUSE. We can’t reflect on those things about which we have no knowledge – so we need to get a clue. Mmmmm… [...]
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Into The Deep #48: The Spiritual Combat – Ch. 20
Episode #48. Sloth. It’s not all about the TV. Making war against sloth is of the greatest importance. Going to the big guns… St. Thomas! Sloth is a sluggishness of the mind and sorrow over doing something for God’s sake. Refusal to do the good that God wants us to do. [...]
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Into The Deep #47: The Spiritual Combat – Ch. 19
Episode #47. Lost luggage. Fighting impurity. Special tactics. Greater resolution. Sin against our own selves. Disunity with God through unity with something else. Sin of a different quality. Dangers of over familiarity. The phases of temptation: before, during and after. Avoid near occasions of sin. Don’t presume on your own strength. Examination of conscience. Attacking [...]
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Into The Deep #46: The Spiritual Combat – Ch. 14-18, Part 2
Fight or Die! Heaven Can Wait. Like Jimmy Buffet says, “… it could be my fault.” No really, we mention Star Trek this time! News Flash: History repeats itself, and we are fallen souls. Have we made our own Anti-Christs? Get spiritually vaccinated, it’s ALWAYS sin-fluenza season. Avoid unnecessary risk: Run Away! Run Away! (Brave, [...]
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Into The Deep #45: The Spiritual Combat – Ch. 14-18, Part 1
Where’s the beef, and tranquilized dogs. Fight, fight, fight! Are you just laying there on the couch, waiting for it to come to you? It’s just like Star Trek: The Next Generation, really! Do we have ears to hear?
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