acedia in English

noun
1
spiritual or mental sloth; apathy.
I would, however, still be feeling something - melancholia or acedia , ennui, despair, nameless dread or another such psychic state historically lacking effective treatment.

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1. Acedia (or sloth) Notes on Acedia

2. Undifficultly Cerotypes oxidimetry saturnic oficina ethnicon acedia

3. Acedia (Latin, acedia "without care") (from Greek ἀκηδία) is the neglect to take care of something that one should do.

4. What is Acedia? Everyone has struggled with Acedia, or “the noonday devil” at some point in their lives

5. Accidie (acedia) One of the seven capital sins

6. The great doctor of acedia is Evagrius Ponticus.

7. Acedia is not a sin per se (although it can lead to sin), nor is Acedia depression (which is a mental illness)

8. When Acedia strikes, it creates an urge to

9. Acedia is a spiritual malady with a fascinating history

10. Acedia is more subtle: it attempts to reduce desire

11. However, Cassian’s teaching on acedia, or boredom, has some original features.

12. Acedia comes from Greek, and means “a lack of care.”

13. The importance of Cassian in relation to acedia is twofold.

14. The best single source on the spiritual topic of Acedia

15. Acedia is a spiritual malady that requires a physical cure

16. Acedia appears throughout monastic and other literature of the Middle Ages

17. Acedia appears throughout monastic and other literature of the Middle Ages

18. Acedia comes from a combination of the negative prefix a- and the Greek noun kēdos, meaning "care, concern, or grief." (The Greek word akēdeia became Acedia in Late Latin, and that spelling was retained in English.) Acedia initially referred specifically to the "deadly sin" of sloth.

19. Acedia appears throughout monastic and other literature of the Middle Ages

20. Our contemporaries seem unaware they are facing the age-old demon of Acedia.

21. Don’t these good works refer somehow to the noontime scourge of acedia?

22. Thomas Aquinas gives two definitions of Acedia in his Summa theologiae: “sadness …

23. Thomas Aquinas, Acedia is a kind of sadness about things that are spiritual

24. Acedia is a lot like the pandemic: It spreads rapidly through confined quarters

25. It presents acedia as an obstacle to lectio divina, through which the monk or nun tends toward God. Acedia chills the palate and prevents savouring the taste of heavenly realities, even the sweetness of God himself.

26. Acedia attacks what I'd say is the giftedness of the moment.” For parents, Ayre said Acedia might manifest itself in a temptation to stay in bed when the children are up at 3 a.m

27. Let us attempt to sketch an overall global vision of the history of acedia.

28. Its name is “Acedia.” The first mention of Acedia in Christian literature comes from the 4th-century Desert Father, Evagrius of Pontus, in his Antirrhetikos, the first and most complete early Christian book on demonology

29. Sadness is burdensome and Acedia is irresistible, but tears shed before God are stronger than both

30. See 3 authoritative translations of Acedia in English with example sentences and audio pronunciations.

31. The new DARK AGE album „Acedia“ will be in stores on November, 13, 2009.

32. Evan: That’s it for this episode, but as I said, you can find a wealth of directions and reflections on Acedia in Norris’s book, Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life

33. Benedict’s concept of acedia is fairly close to that of John Cassian in his Institutes, where acedia, laziness and sadness are always found together and manual work is the generic medicine that cures them.

34. Acedia occupies a central place in the moral teaching of Saint Thomas as a whole.

35. The sad person finds relief more easily, whereas the one besieged by acedia is trapped.

36. The term Acedia is derived from the ancient Greek word akēdeia meaning “lack of care.”

37. The opposite of Acedia is caring very deeply, and it’s loving, which I find very liberating

38. Acedia is not human discouragement or pervading sense of hopelessness, which are natural reactions in difficulty

39. Acedia became a part of sadness and its aspect of laziness or unhealthy idleness was stressed.

40. Thomas Aquinas, Acedia is a kind of sadness about things that are spiritual goods, or a “disgust with activity.”

41. Just as when sweet wine spoils it becomes acid, so the joy of charity, when it sours, becomes acedia.

42. Despite all that has been said, one more word is called for concerning the fight against acedia.

43. Acedia (アケディア Akedia) is a Black Knights and an antagonist of Sin, Damnation and the Atonement Girl

44. Ace, -acea, -aceae, Ace bandage, acebutolol, Acedia, Aceh, ace-high, Acehnese, ACE inhibitor, ace in the hole

45. Since acedia stirs up all the other vices, it cannot be cured by a single contrary virtue.

46. All of this helps us understand why acedia is associated with sorrow, laziness or idleness, and envy.

47. In fact acedia goes against the desire for God and, above all, the joy that comes from union with him.

48. Saint Benedict, in his Rule, only mentions acedia once: in Chapter 48 dedicated to manual work and reading.

49. We can add one more word about this self-centred sorrow, which will help us understand acedia better.

50. Acedia is set on a country estate where six priests are sent to rid a teenage girl of demons