The ancients called it “acedia”; for the Church it is a capital sin: “today this evil of the soul” is very reminiscent of the descriptions of depression: a progressive letting go ...
There is a word that was pretty common in Medieval Christianity and the word is acedia. Acedia is often defined as sloth, or ...
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Even without the aura of incantation, Psalm 91 remained popular among monks struggling to maintain an ascetic life and to fend off “the perils of the darkness and sleep” as well as the “noonday demon” ...
Here are a few of our favourites. Acedia was a very specific emotion experienced by very specific men in the Middle Ages: monks living in monasteries. This emotion would often be brought on by a ...
Then I learned about the vice of acedia—or sloth. There are two manifestations of this vice—one that resists work altogether and one that stays frenetically busy in a way that undermines ...
The vice of "acedia," often translated as "sloth," can cause laziness, but it is much more than that; it is a lack of caring for anything and being bored with everything, even one's relationship ...
The vice of "acedia," often translated as "sloth," can cause laziness, but it is much more than that; it is a lack of caring for anything and being bored with everything, even one's relationship ...
She tells of... In this penetrating theological memoir, Norris (The Cloister Walk ) details her relationship with acedia, a slothful, soul-weary indifference long recognized by monastics.
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