Introduction to the Devout Life: Third Part--Chapter 36

Journeying With The Saints

Hello, Catholic Pilgrims, and welcome back to another great day with St. Francis. Today, I’m going to get political because, well, what I have to talk about fits the reading so well.

I’ve told you before that I am a very black and white person. What’s wrong is wrong and what is right is right. I’m not super interested in gray areas. I’m a very justice-minded person. I believe in giving people what they are due whether that be good or bad.

I’m, also, very interested in using our reason—not emotions—to guide us. Even though I’m a pretty dramatic person and you would be think that I’d be ruled by emotions, I’m very much guided by logic and reason. If you have an incoherent, illogical, unreasonable argument, I’m pretty much done listening to you. I don’t care how convincing your “lived experience” is. This is why for nearly eight years, I fought with my husband on Catholicism. I didn’t shut off because I found all his arguments coherent, logical, and reasonable. It frustrated me to no end to argue with him, but I could not prove him wrong. Consequently, I am Catholic now.

Today, St. Francis is going to talk to us about the necessity of a just and reasonable mind.

Let’s open our books to Chapter Thirty-Six of the Third Part.