St. John Henry Newman - The Danger of Accomplishments | Catholic Culture Audiobooks
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- In this sermon, Newman warns of the danger arising from inordinate love for "the elegant arts and studies," or what he refers to as accomplishments. It is one thing, for example, to be well-read in the classics merely to take delight in the lofty sentiments therein expressed-but it is another thing to “apply all we read to ourselves… from the mere sincerity and honesty of our desire to please God."
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This condems Hollywood. It is one of the best videos on UA-cam I have ever watched. God help me do good works with true Charity.
You are doing great work. Thanks for recording these.
This is very humbling. It makes you realize the depths of how we're going to be judged. Maybe we're all legends in our own minds... Mmmm probably the saintly people are the ones no one pays attention to and think stupid, simple, and not proud to be around.
What a great Saint!
Wonderful homily. Thank you! I appreciate the emphasis on a man needing to be manly through right action.
He is describing me. I know a good amount, but have very little virtue. I must amend myself to act manfully. Thank you for helping me with this video. I've never liked fiction, yet lately I do and have cultivated the vice of laziness and mediocrity. God help me. Thank you.
I thank God For all blessings and protection in Jesus name only.
Very good audio book! 👍
Wow this is really good! I've never thought of it how he puts it especially you see it in higher academia of the good feelings of being moral but not actually going into the actions of doing it all paying lip service but their hearts are far from it. Brilliant.
That's right and paying money that more then likely we haven't shed our sweat to earn in order to salve our consciences is another way of dealing with the lack of action on our morality.
@@wolfthequarrelsome504 that is a very good point! Everyone's becoming slaves but that's been true since the beginning of time. And the sad thing is they'll fight tooth and nail to keep themselves in prison because they're afraid of freedom.
Incredible!
Ouch
I think my own vice in this regard is the opposite of the vice described here. I gave too little value to intellectual development for religious reasons.
I was raised a fundamentalist Christian and all kinds of scholarly learning were denigrated. Reading from learned authors was almost a sin. It was understood to lead to pride and delusion (which, has SOME truth as Newman explained). Our faculty of reason was said to be profoundly corrupted by the Fall and therefore using it necessarily led to error.
This deeply damaged my ability to develop my potential, talents, and I was stunted in my development throughout my youth due to the imperative to avoid intellectual pursuits. Even though I had a strong natural inclination toward conceptual learning I renounced this, unfortunately - or at least felt guilty when I did engage in it.
I have since largely overcome this overly negative view of intellectual development. In fact, intellectual development enabled me to see the nuance that I think is often required when thinking ethically. It is true that the right path is often obvious.
However, often it is not obvious and when it is obvious it can be refined into something even better with the application of thought.
A quick example, I was brought up to believe forgivness is important. I still agree with this rather obvious ethical principle. However, it was only with reflection that I could see that forgivness does not require that I also befriend the forgiven (or re-establish a lost friendship) - in fact this could be terrible. If there is a dangerous abuser, does reconcilation really require that I put myself back under their influence and give them my complete trust again? Of course not, and to withhold trust is not to hate (I was being led by religious leaders to follow this ridiculous path). It is simply to preserve oneself. This may be clear to people who had good upbringing but it was not clear to my young self who simply accepted ideas in a state of uncritical naivite.
My Christian fundamentalists beliefs seemed obviously true to me. Even my conscience was formed to affirm some of the mad principles I was taught to follow. It was though cold reasoning that I could unshackle myself from some of these harmful ideas. I had to choose reason over my conscionce at times because my conscience had been so poorly formed in my youth.
However, with time I eventually reached the dry land of sanity and can trust my moral feelings and intuitions again. I can now place greater trust in what appears obvious to me now.
God is good! Thanks for sharing your story.
So how am I to react to the stories of heroism or failure that are recounted in the Bible?
Newman would say we should not stop at delighting in the stories or the noble sentiments or the intellectual interest, but we should imitate what we learn from them.
But if we did not read them, what example do we have for good action? I don’t agree on his analysis, good upright fiction lays a foundation for morality if well thought through, think of charlotte Mason’s teaching on ‘retelling’ of good books for our greatest understanding and hopefully future good action
What year was this written? Very good.
The collection of sermons was published 1835, but I don't know what year this one was given. It was given on the feast of St. Luke, though.