Episode 21 -- Spiritual Combat c13.2 -- Moving Beyond the Contempt of Others

How do I get at the root of my impatience?

In our last episode, we saw some important distinctions:

We continue with chapter 13 of The Spiritual Combat. Fr Scupoli told us about four things we must do in training our emotions, our sensuality, our passions.

1. Resist those that oppose reason, God’s will, our true happiness. For example, feelings of impatience.
2. Sometimes, to gain greater strength, allow those strong emotions, feelings of impatience, to arise again in order to give them a greater defeat.
3. Be ready for another attack by the devil. Resist with new strength.
4. Frequently makes interior acts opposed to that vice of impatience. Tell God how you want to be patient under this sadness like Our Lady of Sorrows.

REMEMBER — you do not treat emotions connected to chastity, sexuality, romantic love, in the same way! These you do not intentionally allow to arise. We will read about dealing with temptations of lust later on!

In this episode, we continue his treatment of the emotions and their training with examples from Scupoli’s book.