Beginning July 16 at 7pm, join us for an important series focused on “Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction.”
Are you increasingly frustrated and perplexed in this digital age? Do you yearn for a mind that is more focused and a soul able to put down that phone and simply rejoice in the present?
These past two decades, modern technology has brought into being scores of powerful challenges to our interior peace and well-being. We’re experiencing a worldwide crisis of attention in which information overwhelms us, corrodes true communion with others, and leaves us anxious, unsettled, bored, isolated, and lonely.
These pages provide the time-tested antidote that enables you to regain an ordered and peaceful mind in a technologically advanced world. Drawing on the wisdom of the world’s greatest thinkers, including Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas, these pages help you identify and show you how to cultivate the qualities of character you need to survive in our media-saturated environment.
This book offers a calm, measured, yet forthright and effective approach to regaining interior peace. Here you’ll find no argument for retreat from the modern world; instead these pages provide you with a practical guide to recovering self-mastery and interior peace through wise choices and ordered activity in the midst of the world’s communication chaos.
Are you increasingly frustrated and perplexed in this digital age? Do you yearn for a mind that is more focused and a soul able to put down that iPhone and simply rejoice in the good and the true? It’s not hard to do. The saints and the wise can show you how; this book makes their counsel available to you.
This program consists of five sessions, meeting every other Wednesday at 7pm, July 16 through September 10. A zoom option will be available for those who cannot join us in person. This series is appropriate (and especially relevant) for high schoolers and above. For more information, please contact Marty Smith at msmith@stjudes.net.
Copies of the book will be available on the kiosk in the Brophy hallway. Suggested donation is $4.
This series is sponsored by the St. Jude Book Club. Learn more about the Book Club here.
