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Spiritual Assault Weapons

A Lecture Given by Fr. Ermatinger

Outline Of Talk

Spiritual Assault Weapons

  • Introduction:0:00-0:41
  • Life is Combat: 0:41-2:00
    • A Choice to Be a Victim or Victor
    • Join with Christ: 1:06-1:44
      • Laughing into Battle: 1:30-1:44
    • The World the Flesh and the Devil: 1:44-2:00
  • Discussion on Catholic Culture: 2:00-3:33
  • Connection Between Cultivation, Cult, and Identity: 3:33-4:30
    • Try to Live Out an Existence that Glorifies God: 4:00-4:30
  • Three Enemies: 4:30-7:11
    • The Devil: 4:30-5:04
      • Intelligent Enemy and His Agents: 4:50-5:04
    • The Flesh: 5:04-6:28
      • 4 Wounds: 5:07-5:40
        • Mortality
        • Proclivity Towards Malice
        • Darkened Intellect
        • Disordered Passions
      • Channel Passions Towards Heart of Christ: 5:40-6:11
        • Enemy Becomes a Friend: 6:11-6:28
    • The World: 6:28-7:11
  • Three Ordinary Means of Salvation: 7:11-10:32
      • Sacramental Grace
      • Prayer
      • Virtue
    • Grace
      • Grace from God Directly, Prevenient Grace, Habitual Grace, Actual Grace: 7:49-9:54
        • Actual Grace Doesn’t Come Again: 9:03-9:27
          • Docility to Grace-Quickest Way to Holiness: 9:27-9:40
          • Trusting and Acting Quick: 9:40-9:54
      • No Greater Treasure than Having the Blessed Trinity Dwelling in One’s Soul: 9:54-10:32
  • False Contractual Understanding of Our Relationship with God: 10:32-17:05
    • Sin a False Option: 11:11-11:40
    • More To the Spiritual Life than Not Sinning: 11:40-11:46
    • Aside: Cab in Berlin: 11:46-12:50
    • With Grace, We Have the Blessed Trinity on Our Side: 12:50-14:15
      • Trent – Nothing Pleasing to God Can be Done When in Mortal Sin
      • Relationship and Authority: 13:30-14:15
        • Following of Christ is Relational: 14:00-14:15
    • If Grace is the Locomotive and Actual Grace is the Coal, Prayer and Virtue are the Rails: 14:15-15:38
        • Always Concurrent
      • Moral Choices are Determined By Our Prayer: 14:35-15:38
        • Conversely as Well
    • Life Is Not Supposed to Be Fragmented: 15:38-17:05
      • OK: Is It A Sin? Better: What Gives God Glory?: 16:07-17:05
        • Ask Him.
  • St. Teressa of Avila: 9 Degrees of Prayer: 17:05-17:55
    • Vocal Prayers/Devotions
    • Mental Prayer/Meditation/Lectio Divina
    • Different But Similar Methods Between Schools
  • Without Mental Prayer There Is No Holiness: 17:55-22:02
      • Allow Christ Access To Mind and Heart
    • Start Small: 18:30-20:30
      • German Aside: 18:44-19:50
      • Teach Children to Pray: 19:50-20:30
    • Intellect First then the Will: 20:30-21:30
      • Give Christ Our Intellect, Memory, Imagination, and Affections.
        • Not seeking Emotions/Feelings From Him.
        • Don’t Manipulate God to Get Something that Isn’t God.
    • Going into Audience in Prayer to Worship Him: 21:30-21:47
    • Teach Kids to Do Quick Meditations: 21:47-22:02
  • Fidelity to Prayer Overcomes Addictions: 22:02-24:17
    • Evil One Fears Our Prayers 22:35-23:58
      • Discipline + Penance Breaks Devil’s Control: 23:03-23:58
        • Hates a Mortified Body:
    • As We Get to Know Christ, We Make Better Choices: 23:58-24:17
  • Outline of Spiritual Program: 24:17-44:19
    • How To Find Your Dominant Capital Sin: 24:17-25:05
    • Identify 5-7 Manifestation of the Sin and Find A Counter Action: 25:05-26:56
      • Cutting Away At the Expression of the Sin
    • Embrace Spiritual Program as Means to Glorifying God: 26:56-27:55
    • One of The Secrets of the Spiritual Life: As We Progress, it Gets Easier and is More Pleasing to God: 27:55-29:32
      • Struggle to Not Sin Ought Not to Take too Long
    • Need to have a Penitential Attitude: 29:32-34:15
      • Identity of Penance: 30:20-34:15
        • Make Everything a Sacrifice: 30:20-31:10
          • Denying Little Legitimate Pleasures 30:49-31:10
            • No Other Reason Than Loving God More Than His Gifts.
        • The Non-Penitential Person Will Never Understand the Devil: 31:10-32:44
        • Focus on Christ, Not The Penance, or Oneself: 32:44-33:40
          • Good to Have Penance for Each Day
        • Make the Program Routine: 33:40-34:15
    • Memory is the Devil’s Playground: 34:15-35:2
      • Think of Past Sins Only in Terms of Reparations: 34:52-35:2
    • Easy to Engender False Gods – Taking Means and Making Ends of Them: 35:21-38:20
        • Example: Abundance of Screen Time
      • Disordered Delight Requires Penance – Ordering of One’s Life: 37:02-38:20
    • Does This Glorify God or Not?: 38:20-44:19
      • Distinguishing Between Principles and Disordered Attachments / Emotions and Spiritual Consolation/Desolation: 38:20-39:00
      • Culture Rooted in a Place Orientated Towards Heaven: 39:00-40:27
        • Forming Kids From Multiple Angles
      • Don’t Become Myopic or Narcissistic: Church Gives Apostolates: 40:27-41:15
      • Consumerist of Grace – to be Avoided 41:15-41:41
      • Glorifying God Pulls Us Out of Ourselves: 41:41-42:00
        • Aside: Reaction to the Promotion of Confession: 42:00-43:15
      • Channel of Grace to Others: 43:15-44:19

— Fr. Ermatinger