Acedia: The Noonday Devil
By Sr Rose Rolling o.p.
Map of the Journey:
For the last two months of our Holy Preaching series, we have found ourselves in what Evagrius understood as the trio of vices pertaining to the ‘mid-point temptations’, the adolescence, of our spiritual life. We have explored two of these – sadness and anger – and now we come to the third temptation in this unholy trio, and the topic for tonight’s talk, which is acedia.