Introduction to the Devout Life: Third Part--Chapter 23

Journeying With The Saints · Aug 5, 2024 · 16m

Hello, Catholic Pilgrims. Thank you for joining me today as I read St. Francis' words. We've moved out of the section on friendship which was excellent and today we are reading about external mortifications.

This is a longer reading, but an important one as a lot of people are freaked out by external mortifications and in a world that preaches self-indulgence, mortifications are utterly foreign to many.

My daughter was recently in Miami for just a bit and she said to me, "Mom, I've never seen so much plastic surgery in my life. It's insane."

What's interesting is that we have, on the one…