Fr's 2nd installment of his series on acedia. This one on how to combat it. For more please visit www.princeofpeacetaylors.net/ & remember to say 3 Hail Marys for the priest
"Acedia is the temptation to draw away from the present and seek refuge in imagination." I've spent more than a decade daydreaming, thinking up a different reality because i did not want to make decision. No carrer, no wife, no family. My procrastination was catastrophic, and it sometimes still is. It's horrible. All my life i only moved on when the circumstances where brutally forcing me. I had no drive in life at all. Allways passive since my youth. Acedia is real
I wish we were taught about this as children. Praise Jesus that he is awaking me to this. Now I can implement remedies through the love of Christ. I am learning I need to live in the present moment. I always lived in the past or my imagination. My to do list is so long. I never really go any job done properly. Now I know that the noonday demon is afflicting me. God will help. I have trust in him.
Evagrius Ponticus proposes 5 remedies. Healing grace of God: 1- Turn to God in tears. We can not do it on our own, we need a Savior. Psalm 41-6. The gift of tears, our tears over our spiritual situation can soften our hearts for grace to overwhelm it. Quiet time we have with God in which our tears of sorrow can purify and actually strengthen us. 2- Persevere in work is the cure for acedia along with execution of all tasks with great attention, set a measure for yourself in every work and don't let up until you have completed it. Much less intentionally doing it well and as well as possible for the glory of God. When we do it to the best of our ability in a measured and prudent way we sanctify ourselves, the workplace and everything around us. 3- The way of contradiction. Psalm 137. Thoughts in our mind, we take them and crush them against the rock of Christ we take the thought and mentally crush it against Jesus the rock we rebuke the demons and seek refuge in prayer, those short little arrow prayers aspirations like "Jesus have mercy on me a sinner" or "God come to my assistance", to use constantly the Word of God, memorize Holy Scripture. 4- Meditation on death, time has a direction, it has a meaning, once a day we should imagine ourselves at the hour of our death and ask where would we go at that moment. 5- Increasing our faithfulness to our daily routine and daily life. We should not leave even for a second or try to escape the duties of our state in life and its demands, like don't come in late to church, persevere. We should do all of these things and do them in moderation. Evagrius writes a wandering mind is strengthened by reading in prayer, passion is dampened down by hunger and work and solitude, and anger is repressed by Psalmody, long-suffering and mercy but all these things should be done at the right times and in the proper measure if they are used at the wrong times and to excess they are useful for a short time, it is harmful in the long run. Acedia is the temptation to draw away from the present and seek refuge in imagination, these remedies keep us tied to the real and the spiritual life is an engagement with what is not with what we think things should be in an ideal world that we are just kind of making up
First, many thanks for writing this out! It’s immensely helpful. While I agree wholeheartedly, when you are so overwhelmed and spiritually arid, it’s hard to summon up the energy to do these things. That’s kind of the whole point I think.. ... and no I’m not trying to be snarky or nasty. I’m praying I have the energy to be the better person that I would be if I could do these things right now. As Father said, that healing must come from God.
My acedia makes me not care. = I don't care. about. anything. I struggle with this on a daily. I pray to Mary and Jesus and the Saints (Rita) for relief from this blasted accursed dis ease. Forgive me, O, Lord, for I am a sinner.
WANT to care, WANT to persevere and then do your duty. That's what I'm doing. Don't need to FEEL care, but just do it and trust. Hope this helps. I struggle with it too.
Thank you Holy Spirit for leading me to hear this video; just what I needed to hear today. Happy New Year, may 2018 bring peace and a deeper relationship with Our Lord.
This is spot on, regardless of your faith persuasion. Or even if you follow no specific faith. There was a time in my life when acedia haunted me, though I had no idea what it was called and that it's a form of spiritual torpor. It's an insidious, creepy but deeply buried feeling that life is, or might be, meaningless. It's the forlorn feeling of having no purpose in life and simply "going through the motions." Unfortunately, untended it leaves us especially *vulnerable* to dangerous distractions -- alcohol and drug abuse, thrill seeking (being an adrenaline junkie); rigidity and fundamentalism that seeks to control others; excessive sexual gratification; excessive gambling; excessive collecting of everything from quilts to guns; excessive gaming; stalking others obsessively...it goes on and on. The answer? To serve God by serving others while also taking care to respect and care for ourselves too. It is a lifelong journey, but well worth it.
I'm seeing this all around me... restlessness, excitability and meanness. People just seem like they want to fuss, fight and argue. Staying calm and letting them spool away without reacting really freaks them out, ha.
DRIVE BY SCRIPTURE SHOUTING 🤣 Love it!!! Yes, may we not forget Jesus never had lengthy conversation with evil but only fed evil Thy Word of God! Amen.
I am almost throughly convinced that GOD only loves those who are doing well anyone that loved him and was ugly or fat or poor or anything that any human would turn away from he hates. If anyone thinks otherwise please let me know
Remember before you post they always refer to Mary as a beautiful lady. Mary was not someone who was raped, she was not someone who was poor her husband was a carpenter, she was not someone who suffered any of the things I see other men and women around me as well as myself suffer
@@SarahBaer-wd7iqdo not compare yourself to Mary! Mary, of course, was full of grace from the beginning. We are not. That is a first mistake. However, we are all made beautiful, regardless of physical appearance, because we are made in the image and likeness of God. This beauty is true beauty and can never be taken away from us. Also, Mary did suffer. She was a teenager tasked with giving birth to the Son of God. Could you imagine? She also suffered more intensely than describable by seeing her beloved Son suffer innocently and die and excruciating death. If anyone can relate to our griefs, tragedies and sufferings, it is our sorrowful Mother. Second, even if you were the only person on earth, Jesus would still have suffered the passion and cross for you alone. He loved us while we were His enemies. If He loved us even then, going through the incarnation and everything he went through for the sake of our healing, for his love for us, to restore and redeem us, whatever tragedies or faults or sufferings we have experienced mean nothing in comparison and do not disqualify us. He is infinitely greater than them. “Whoever comes to me I will never cast out” John 6:37. Perhaps find inspiration in Mary Magdalene. God bless!
Your analysis is insufficiently rigorous. Your remarks re Pelagius presuppose a static or non-developmental anthropology and in particular a fixed understanding of the self. If you allow that this self has the potential to unfold and evolve, that human consciousness passes through a series of overlapping stages or waves, then the Pelagian view that the self has the capacity to grow into the goodness that is intrinsic to its full nature, doesn't sound so implausible. As long as you maintain that theos is an objective entity that stands over and against humankind (a consciousness that everyone passes through on the spiritual journey but which not everyone leaves behind) you will remain stuck in the view that man's deeper destiny will always be a bridge too far.
Yes, we do believe in a 'static anthropology' and 'in particular a fixed understanding of the self' when it comes to human nature, so your darwinist, moral-relativist view has no bearing here. We believe that no matter how we much change or "evolve," in our exterior lives, whether they be cultural norms, technology, human systems, and etc, our nature will not, and objective moral truths do not. Our development comes from learning to embrace more and more the light of truths revealed to us by God, not from any Darwinian evolutionary sense. If you're a pelagian heretic, you should renounce it and repent. And if you're so far gone as to be a secular humanist, may God have mercy on your soul.
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"Acedia is the temptation to draw away from the present and seek refuge in imagination."
I've spent more than a decade daydreaming, thinking up a different reality because i did not want to make decision. No carrer, no wife, no family. My procrastination was catastrophic, and it sometimes still is. It's horrible. All my life i only moved on when the circumstances where brutally forcing me. I had no drive in life at all. Allways passive since my youth. Acedia is real
I wish we were taught about this as children. Praise Jesus that he is awaking me to this. Now I can implement remedies through the love of Christ. I am learning I need to live in the present moment. I always lived in the past or my imagination. My to do list is so long. I never really go any job done properly. Now I know that the noonday demon is afflicting me. God will help. I have trust in him.
Acadia is my biggest sin that I need to overcome. Please pray for me.
Evagrius Ponticus proposes 5 remedies. Healing grace of God:
1- Turn to God in tears. We can not do it on our own, we need a Savior. Psalm 41-6. The gift of tears, our tears over our spiritual situation can soften our hearts for grace to overwhelm it. Quiet time we have with God in which our tears of sorrow can purify and actually strengthen us.
2- Persevere in work is the cure for acedia along with execution of all tasks with great attention, set a measure for yourself in every work and don't let up until you have completed it. Much less intentionally doing it well and as well as possible for the glory of God. When we do it to the best of our ability in a measured and prudent way we sanctify ourselves, the workplace and everything around us.
3- The way of contradiction. Psalm 137. Thoughts in our mind, we take them and crush them against the rock of Christ we take the thought and mentally crush it against Jesus the rock we rebuke the demons and seek refuge in prayer, those short little arrow prayers aspirations like "Jesus have mercy on me a sinner" or "God come to my assistance", to use constantly the Word of God, memorize Holy Scripture.
4- Meditation on death, time has a direction, it has a meaning, once a day we should imagine ourselves at the hour of our death and ask where would we go at that moment.
5- Increasing our faithfulness to our daily routine and daily life. We should not leave even for a second or try to escape the duties of our state in life and its demands, like don't come in late to church, persevere. We should do all of these things and do them in moderation. Evagrius writes a wandering mind is strengthened by reading in prayer, passion is dampened down by hunger and work and solitude, and anger is repressed by Psalmody, long-suffering and mercy but all these things should be done at the right times and in the proper measure if they are used at the wrong times and to excess they are useful for a short time, it is harmful in the long run.
Acedia is the temptation to draw away from the present and seek refuge in imagination, these remedies keep us tied to the real and the spiritual life is an engagement with what is not with what we think things should be in an ideal world that we are just kind of making up
Thank you, God Bless You.
Thanks! This is so helpful!
Much appreciated... thank you !
First, many thanks for writing this out! It’s immensely helpful. While I agree wholeheartedly, when you are so overwhelmed and spiritually arid, it’s hard to summon up the energy to do these things. That’s kind of the whole point I think.. ... and no I’m not trying to be snarky or nasty. I’m praying I have the energy to be the better person that I would be if I could do these things right now. As Father said, that healing must come from God.
One can also pray the Rosary. Ask Our Lady for the grace to persevere. She will help you..
My acedia makes me not care. =
I don't care. about. anything. I struggle with this on a daily. I pray to Mary and Jesus and the Saints (Rita) for relief from this blasted accursed dis ease. Forgive me, O, Lord, for I am a sinner.
WANT to care, WANT to persevere and then do your duty. That's what I'm doing. Don't need to FEEL care, but just do it and trust.
Hope this helps. I struggle with it too.
I know the feeling
I highly recommend the book Spiritual Depression! It is an old book but so current. It addresses this struggle beautifully. God bless you
Did you get out of acedia, my friend?
ID call you a fucking sloth but you wouldn't care. Fucking sloth
What a wonderful sermon! I have needed this for so very long.
Me too
Thank you for this beautiful sermon Fr. God's grace for leading me here.
Pray I apply the remedies and get rid of my sluggishness and procrastination.
What does it mean? SidiaWhat is asedia
learning to weep with rosary, ,good one
Thank you Holy Spirit for leading me to hear this video; just what I needed to hear today. Happy New Year, may 2018 bring peace and a deeper relationship with Our Lord.
This is spot on, regardless of your faith persuasion. Or even if you follow no specific faith. There was a time in my life when acedia haunted me, though I had no idea what it was called and that it's a form of spiritual torpor. It's an insidious, creepy but deeply buried feeling that life is, or might be, meaningless. It's the forlorn feeling of having no purpose in life and simply "going through the motions." Unfortunately, untended it leaves us especially *vulnerable* to dangerous distractions -- alcohol and drug abuse, thrill seeking (being an adrenaline junkie); rigidity and fundamentalism that seeks to control others; excessive sexual gratification; excessive gambling; excessive collecting of everything from quilts to guns; excessive gaming; stalking others obsessively...it goes on and on. The answer? To serve God by serving others while also taking care to respect and care for ourselves too. It is a lifelong journey, but well worth it.
Beautifully put it, my friend. God bless you.
I'm seeing this all around me... restlessness, excitability and meanness. People just seem like they want to fuss, fight and argue. Staying calm and letting them spool away without reacting really freaks them out, ha.
Wonderful sermon!
Beautiful, thank you!
DRIVE BY SCRIPTURE SHOUTING 🤣
Love it!!! Yes, may we not forget Jesus never had lengthy conversation with evil but only fed evil Thy Word of God! Amen.
Can I ask a question, What is this Asedia.
perfect!
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
What's the name of the priest? ❤️
Unfortunaely volume too low..my only gripe
Looking at my dirty laundry now 🧺 😳
I am almost throughly convinced that GOD only loves those who are doing well anyone that loved him and was ugly or fat or poor or anything that any human would turn away from he hates. If anyone thinks otherwise please let me know
Remember before you post they always refer to Mary as a beautiful lady. Mary was not someone who was raped, she was not someone who was poor her husband was a carpenter, she was not someone who suffered any of the things I see other men and women around me as well as myself suffer
@@SarahBaer-wd7iqdo not compare yourself to Mary! Mary, of course, was full of grace from the beginning. We are not. That is a first mistake. However, we are all made beautiful, regardless of physical appearance, because we are made in the image and likeness of God. This beauty is true beauty and can never be taken away from us. Also, Mary did suffer. She was a teenager tasked with giving birth to the Son of God. Could you imagine? She also suffered more intensely than describable by seeing her beloved Son suffer innocently and die and excruciating death. If anyone can relate to our griefs, tragedies and sufferings, it is our sorrowful Mother.
Second, even if you were the only person on earth, Jesus would still have suffered the passion and cross for you alone. He loved us while we were His enemies. If He loved us even then, going through the incarnation and everything he went through for the sake of our healing, for his love for us, to restore and redeem us, whatever tragedies or faults or sufferings we have experienced mean nothing in comparison and do not disqualify us. He is infinitely greater than them. “Whoever comes to me I will never cast out” John 6:37. Perhaps find inspiration in Mary Magdalene. God bless!
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This Pelagius sounds like Rousseau. So misleading and wrong.
I was looking for spiritual maturity but all that's said here is lifeless, inspid and bland.
Ray Kaelin you must have acedia!
Tou'che
Just go to sleep, No point, give up.
Give up what ?
Boring
Your analysis is insufficiently rigorous. Your remarks re Pelagius presuppose a static or non-developmental anthropology and in particular a fixed understanding of the self. If you allow that this self has the potential to unfold and evolve, that human consciousness passes through a series of overlapping stages or waves, then the Pelagian view that the self has the capacity to grow into the goodness that is intrinsic to its full nature, doesn't sound so implausible. As long as you maintain that theos is an objective entity that stands over and against humankind (a consciousness that everyone passes through on the spiritual journey but which not everyone leaves behind) you will remain stuck in the view that man's deeper destiny will always be a bridge too far.
Can you write more?
Peter Dobbing oh dear!
Thats deep. Like, stepping in deep doo.
Are you a Christian at all??
This video is from a Christo-centric POV. Your comment is devoid of anything to do with Christ...
Yes, we do believe in a 'static anthropology' and 'in particular a fixed understanding of the self' when it comes to human nature, so your darwinist, moral-relativist view has no bearing here. We believe that no matter how we much change or "evolve," in our exterior lives, whether they be cultural norms, technology, human systems, and etc, our nature will not, and objective moral truths do not. Our development comes from learning to embrace more and more the light of truths revealed to us by God, not from any Darwinian evolutionary sense. If you're a pelagian heretic, you should renounce it and repent. And if you're so far gone as to be a secular humanist, may God have mercy on your soul.