My friend Paul rejoins the podcast to discuss Spirituality in more detail, again (at least in part) through the lens of the anima technica vacua. As you might well expect, the discussion ranges over a number of topics, but a theme that percolates through it has to do with how one actually goes about living out the ideal of Spirituality…and how doing so involves, primarily, loving others. And then not just in some abstract sense, but in a deeper and more meaningful sense that involves actual connection and intimacy.

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The season of Advent — four weeks of preparation, reflection, and penance that precede Christmas — began this past Sunday. It will continue until Christmas proper, and the Christmas season continues thereafter until the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord (January 8th or 9th, which is the first Sunday that follows Epiphany (which, in turn, is observed on January 6th).