Episode 15 -- Treatise on Peace of Soul c11.1 -- Overcoming the devil by Humility

At the beginning of chapter 11 we read that the devil is overcome by humility. He sinned through pride and self-assertion. His temptations are defeated by humility, by submitting ourselves to God. The devil likes to make us consider ourselves to be self-sufficient. He likes to make us compare ourselves to others. Let us instead remember what he taught us in chapter 10. 

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St Philip Neri in the 16th century would daily gather those in Rome who were desirous of seeking Christian perfection. He would read from a spiritual book and then discourse on the meaning of what was read. This podcast (and the nightly prayer group from which it springs) seeks to carry on St Philip’s method of helping people become holy, even saints, in their own homes.