Sins Against the Virtue of Religion – Part II
The Virtue of Religion - Part II: Sins Against the Virtue Part II Of A Lecture Series Given By Fr. Ermatinger August 2022 Allegory of Religion, Pompeo Batoni, 1763-64. Part II Outline Intro Prayers -- 0:00-1:30 Common Error: Blame God for Woes and Threaten With a Faith Crisis -- 1:30-2:20 Errors Become Demonic Inversions of the Virtue -- 2:20-3:05 Spiritual but not Religious -- 3:05-4:50 Spiritual Beings who are Religious -- 4:50-4:55 [...]
Aspects of the Virtue of Religion – Part I
The Virtue of Religion - Part I: Aspects of the Virtue Part I Of A Lecture Series Given By Fr. Ermatinger August 2022 Allegory of Religion, Pompeo Batoni, 1763-64. Part I Outline Intro Prayers -- 00:00-0:50 Self-Imposed Schizophrenia -- Living Two Lives 0:50-3:02 Lack of the Virtue of Religion -- 3:02-5:30 Spiritual But Not Religious - A Problem -- 3:20-3:58 False Definitions -- 3:58-5:30 The Virtue of Religion - A Debt Owed [...]
St. Augustine, Does God Lead Us Into Temptation?
Question 60 What does “lead us not into temptation” mean? Temptation comes about like a sort of inquiry in which man discovers who he is, for previously, he was hidden from himself, but not so hidden from his Maker. from St. Augustine Answers 101 Questions on Prayer by Fr. Ermatinger There is a complexity in the prayer not to be led into temptation because it is, on the face of it, a prayer that is not [...]