Latest Episodes and Posts
Acedia, Episode 6: Beatitude Is an Activity
Beatitude is not rest but an activity, and acedia’s disgust with it turns out to be a fixation on the effort rather than the reward.
Acedia, Episode 5: How Friendship with God Is Possible
Charity is friendship with God and God makes that friendship possible by sharing His own beatitude with the creature.
August 7 – TR Live: The Early Modern Era & Beginnings of Colonization
The next TR Live livestream is August 7 at 7pm Eastern Time on the True Restoration Youtube Channel.
Modernism in the Church – Book Review
Modernism in the Church: Commentary on Lamennais’ letters (1881) by Charles Périn (Translated into English for the first time.) The tragic and turbulent life of a once-faithful Catholic priest, Father Hugues-Félicité Robert de Lamennais,...
Acedia, Episode 4: The Circular Movement of Love
St. Thomas Aquinas gives acedia its two defining marks: a sadness about a spiritual good, and a disgust with activity.
Here We Go Again – Those Terrible Homeschoolers!
The other day, the article, “Podcaster Says Home Schooling ‘Crazy Christian Problem,’ DOE Responds” came to my attention, and I thought “here we go again.” Then I wondered why people who don’t homeschool get...
Acedia, Episode 3: The Two Definitions
St. Thomas Aquinas gives acedia its two defining marks: a sadness about a spiritual good, and a disgust with activity.
Acedia, Episode 2: The Remedies of the Desert
From the desert come five remedies for acedia, the weapons by which Cassian, Syncletica, and St. Benedict held their ground against it.
Acedia, Episode 1: The Noonday Devil
Father Nicolás Despósito introduces Acedia, the noonday devil that drove the desert monk from his cell and the temptation every Christian shares as a solitary before God.
July 3 – TR Live: The Manosphere
The next TR Live livestream is July 3 at 6pm Eastern Time on the True Restoration Youtube Channel.