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Act Against Your Attachments
FromBishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies
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15 minutes
Released:
Aug 23, 2022
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Friends, at the heart of what St. Ignatius of Loyola teaches in the “Spiritual Exercises” is the idea of detachment. If we are to do the will of God, then we have to become detached from the worldly goods to which we are addicted. A basic principle of this detachment is “agere contra,” which is Latin simply for “to act against.” The idea is simple: if you are attached or addicted to some worldly good, then the best thing is to act against it—to press, aggressively even, in the opposite direction.
Released:
Aug 23, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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