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Welcome back to Best Advent Ever. We spoke yesterday about leisure. Are you having a leisurely Advent? Are you having an experience of leisure as you make your way through Advent this year? Or is the chaos of a secular Christmas starting to encroach upon you. Is the chaos of secular Christmas and the demands of secular Christmas starting to crush your leisure? And if so, what can you do about that? How can you push back on that? How can you politely excuse yourself from some of those demands that are unnecessary or not part of God's incredible plan for your human flourishing this Advent and Christmas?
We spoke yesterday about Josef Pieper, German philosopher, his writings on leisure in the late 1940s. Perhaps the most fascinating point that Pieper makes, given our current circumstances, is that religion can only be born in leisure. A leisure that allows time to contemplate nature, self, God, and the world. There it is. Religion can only be born in leisure. Let those who have ears listen. Deprive people of leisure and you will drive religion out of their lives. And isn't that exactly what has happened? The cover of the original edition of Leisure: The Basis of Culture, states, "Pieper maintains that our world of total labor has vanquished leisure and issues a startling warning. Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for non-activity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves." It's prophetic. There really is not another word for it. Because this is exactly what has happened. We've driven religion out of our lives, out of our culture, and how have we done it? By destroying leisure. By destroying leisure. Religion can only be born in leisure.
Religion cannot be born, cannot thrive, cannot be sustained in the craziness of modern life, the hecticness of modern life, the constant noise of modern life. And so, I put these two questions before you to reflect upon today. What are your hectic amusements? And how would you rate your friendship with silence? Go back and revisit this one more time. Pieper maintains that our world of total labor has vanquished leisure and he issues a startling warning. Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for non-activity. Unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves. What are your hectic amusements? Because they are destroying the culture and yourself. And how would you rate your relationship with silence? If you're not yet a member of the Ambassadors Club, I really want you to consider today joining the Ambassadors Club. Becoming a part of this incredible group of people. It just makes everything a dynamic Catholic possible. Click the button below. Choose your welcome gift. Become an Ambassador today. Have a great day. Remember, Be Bold, Be Catholic.
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