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Episode 2: Naming Acedia - What is it?

Episode 2: Naming Acedia - What is it?

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 Episode 2 Transcript (includes links for further reading)[00:00:00] Okay, welcome to the Moderate Catholic, where we discuss topics that deepen faith and inspire action. I am your host, Christina Gebel, and this is episode two. So, it's been a little bit since episode one. I know that I left y'all on kind of a cliffhanger of sorts. Life has really been life’n lately, so I haven't had time to record the next episode, but I've been thinking a lot about it and it's been highly anticipated.So, my sincere apologies for leaving you for such a long time and also on such a cliffhanger, and I hope that you will enjoy this episode that we have today. So, if you remember from the very first episode, what I had been talking about is essentially what [00:01:00] led me to do spiritual direction, namely the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola with my spiritual director. And that was around a six-month process where we very slowly went through those exercises, and I was trying to gain some insight into how I was feeling, which was somewhat new to me, I guess you could say, in the sense that I hadn't quite felt that way before.And while it was perhaps a close cousin of other feelings I had had in the past, like maybe depression, it was somewhat different. And the way that I described it in episode one, in telling other people about it, was that I [00:02:00] think I had a spiritual problem that needed to be solved as opposed to a medical problem or a mental health problem, of which I was really familiar with up until that point in my life.So. I laid out that whole scene and promised to tell you what I would eventually come to know that it is, and that's what we're gonna focus on today. So today we are going to name it, and we are going to do that in the next episodes where we really unpack what it is. It's nature. And ultimately how to overcome it.I do wanna mention that most of my research around this not only came from my conversations in spiritual direction with Becky Eldredge, but also from [00:03:00] two texts that I read subsequently to learn more about it. And I'd like to share those with you because one, you might be interested in reading them and two, I want to give credit to the authors that wrote them and they have informed me of so much of its history and how it can manifest in our lives.So the first text that I wanna draw to your attention, and we will be going over these in multiple episodes, is called The Noonday Devil: Acedia and the Unnamed Evil of our Times. So that's kind of a bit of a foreboding, somewhat, Uh, interesting title. It talks about the devil. It talks about evil. And if you know me, and you know how I talk about spirituality, I don't tend to bring up those two things [00:04:00] frequently. I prefer to use a different word for the devil, which is one that I learned during spiritual direction, which is the False Spirit, and that's something that St. Ignatius kind of coined, if you will.And this text is written by Jean Charles Nault. Nault is spelled N-A-U-L-T, and he is with the Order of St. Benedict, (Benedict is a saint in the Catholic church) and he resides at the Abbott of Saint-Wandrille. And if you're noticing my very poor French accent that I've tried to salvage from my time in high school, though I doubt it was ever actually there, he resides in France. And [00:05:00] he is a monk there at this Benedictine Abbey in Normandy, France.His book is one that I read, actually second after the next one I'll tell you about, and I will say it is a little more academic in its writing, so. I would not consider it to be kind of an entry level read to this topic. It is definitely a lot more theological, and also just academic in its approach to the topic, but it is really excellent. So if you're up for that, definitely check it out.The second book that I wanna bring to your attention, and the first one I read. At the recommendation of Becky while I was going through direction is actually a New York Times bestseller, so that bodes well, and it is called Acedia [00:06:00] and Me: A Marriage, Monk’s, and Writer's Life. And that author is Kathleen Norris. And she is an American poet and essayist. She currently is Episcopalian, so that's one denomination of Christianity within the United States, but she also became what's called a Benedictine Oblate at the Assumption Abbey in North Dakota, which sounds like a really intriguing place to visit.A Benedictine Oblate is essentially when a layperson, and by layperson we mean somebody who's not a priest or an ordained religious person, comes to an order like the Order of St. Benedict and says, I'm not going to become a monk [00:07:00] or an ordained follower of this St. Benedictine order, if you will, but I'm going to remain a lay person, and I want to live my life in accordance with the values and teachings of this saint. So, she is essentially a lay person like me and you. I would imagine not many of the people listening are priests or ...
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