by The Exodus Team | Nov 7, 2025 | Formation Series, Spiritual Desolation
St. John Climacus recommends two additional practices to combat acedia: psalmody and manual labor.Both of these are ways of performing reasonable exertion in pursuit of a spiritual good.Remember that acedia can be caused by ill-advised, excessive exertion in the...
by The Exodus Team | Nov 7, 2025 | Formation Series, Spiritual Desolation
Ultimately, spiritual desolation is an attack on our memory and our hope.It throws doubt on our memories of closeness with God, and it makes us doubt that his loving care is directed to bringing us to share eternal life with him.We need to remember the beauty of our...
by The Exodus Team | Nov 7, 2025 | Formation Series, Stewardship of Time
Introduction Just as a fish is unaware of the water it swims in, we are often unaware of the time we live in—not time as in our current epoch, but time itself.We sometimes forget about the reality of time, or take it for granted.St. Augustine gets at the mysterious...
by The Exodus Team | Nov 7, 2025 | Formation Series, Stewardship of Time
Most of us are probably familiar with the general concept of stewardship.We often hear about using natural resources wisely, sometimes called stewardship of creation.Or we hear people refer to biblical passages (e.g. Matthew 25:14–30) as starting points to talk about...
by The Exodus Team | Nov 7, 2025 | Formation Series, Stewardship of Time
In the first creation account, a relatively simple command is given to human beings: men and women are instructed to love and to work.“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air...
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