Joe Cardenas and Nate Gadiano on Living Simplicity
Episode description
Advent invites us to reflect on our Christian disposition, oriented towards peace, hope, joy, and love. St. Josemaría Escrivá was known to summarize that disposition by calling it, simply… “simple.” In The Way, he praises the apostles and St. Joseph for imitating Jesus himself in being simple. And then he exhorts us: “May you not lack simplicity.”
Heights faculty Joe Cardenas and Nate Gadiano join us this week to explore the Christian meaning of “simplicity,” beginning with the ways that God is simple: unified, sincere, essential, and wholly true. As we strive to reflect his example, how do we find that interior disposition of simplicity? And how can we help our boys find it too?
Chapters:3:07 A Catholic sense of simplicity
10:13 Moving beyond “minimalism”
18:38 Simplicity in Scripture
20:43 Social simplicity
24:12 As opposed to duplicity
26:08 How spiritual direction simplifies you
30:36 A unity of purpose
32:39 Distinct from feelings-based “honesty”
39:02 Helping our boys as parents, mentors
41:41 A boy’s insecurity, overcome by trust
47:38 Secure in divine filiation
Links:The Way, Furrow, and The Forge by St. Josemaría Escrivá
Also on the Forum:The Virtues Playlist on The Heights Forum