In confronting doubt, the monk has only one path of salvation: taking the plunge into God. Acedia insinuates that he is useless and that he would do better to beat a hasty retreat, to abandon the fight and leave the arena. At the heart of that dark night, God asks him to hold on to his hand firmly.
—Jean-Charles Nault, O.S.B.
from his book The Noonday Devil
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WE HAVE FOUND MERCY
Abbot Nault begins his study of acedia by tracing the wisdom of the Church on the subject from the Desert Fathers to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He shows how acedia afflicts persons in all states of life and provides remedies for it.
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