173 – Chastity, Integrity and the Desert Fathers – Bishop Erik Varden

Feb 15, 2024

Erik Varden, bishop of Trondheim, Norway as
well as Trappist monk, joins the podcast to discuss his new book
Chastity: Reconciliation of the Senses.

Topics discussed include:

  • Recovering the true meaning of the word
    “chastity”
  • Continence and chastity are not the same
    thing
  • What the Desert Fathers can teach us about
    chastity
  • Why we need to meditate on the original
    vocation of man before the Fall rather than limiting our options to
    what our sinful nature is capable of
  • Why having a sense of dignity in one’s
    masculinity or femininity helps us to be chaste
  • The importance of friendship between men and
    women
  • The redirection of eros

Links

Erik Varden, Chastity: Reconciliation of
the Senses
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/chastity-9781399411400/

Élisabeth-Paule Labat, The Song That I Am:
On the Mystery of Music
, trans. Erik Varden https://litpress.org/Products/MW040P/The-Song-That-I-Am

Thomas’s 3-part essay inspired by the Labat
book https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/mystery-music-part-i/

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