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Hello All -

If there is any way to submit a topic for a formation meeting let me know. I would appreciate a talk on the topic of acedia. I am reading the book "The noonday devil" but would like to hear about it from our teacher.

"The "noonday devil" is the demon of acedia, the vice also known as sloth. The word "sloth", however, can be misleading, for acedia is not laziness: in fact it can manifest as busyness or activism. Rather, acedia is a gloomy combination of weariness, sadness, and a lack of purposefulness. It robs a person of his capacity for joy and leaves him feeling empty, or void of meaning......

Acedia is experienced by countless modern people who describe their condition as depression, melancholy, burn-out, or even mid-life crisis "