In June of 2020, Elliot, the proprietor of the YouTube channel, Mauritian Struggle, posted a video in which he critiqued the last half-hour or so of a video by Steve Franssen. I think anyone would benefit from watching Elliot's video, but I was intrigued enough to consider Franssen's video from my own Augustinian-Calvinist perspective.
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Link to Franssen's video: https://youtu.be/lQn1zrl1nAk
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Link to Eliot's video: https://youtu.be/dRELYRy9RY8
Eliot's Recommendations (to be the sort of politically-involved Christian who can confront power, for example Moses, Elijah):
1. Going to church
2. Being men and women of prayer, especially saying, chanting or singing the psalms.
3. Praying the Rosary
4. Meditative/Spiritual Reading, the Scriptures, daily, of course, but also:
- The Preparation For Death by St Alphonsus Ligouri, which is intense but really puts life into perspective
- The Philokalia, or Love of beauty. This'll teach you the way the earliest monks struggled to fight against this themselves. Volume I is particularly good
- The Sayings of The Desert Fathers, which are a set of short stories about these monks
Scriptural Order:
- Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, 1&2 Samuel, 1&2 Kings, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1 Maccabees, Luke, and Acts.
His recommended reading list:
- The Preparation For Death by St Alphonsus Ligouri, which is intense but really puts life into perspective
- The Philokalia, or Love of beauty. This'll teach you the way the earliest monks struggled to fight against this themselves. Volume I is particularly good
- The Sayings of The Desert Fathers, which are a set of short stories about these monks
Scriptural Order:
- Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, 1&2 Samuel, 1&2 Kings, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1 Maccabees, Luke, and Acts. This is the story
- John, Ecclesiastes, Job and The Song of Songs
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My suggestions:
-Thomas Watson’s Body of Divinity
-John Murray’s, Redemption: Accomplished and Applied
-John Owens, The Mortification of Sin in Believers
-Matthew Henry, A Church in the House
- Nathanael Ranew’s Solitude Improved
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Link to Anglican BCP (1979): https://www.bcponline.org/
Link to Anglican BCP (1928): http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1928/BCP_1928.htm
Link to the Office of Compline: http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1892/Compline_1892.htm
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Link to instructions for the Lutheran Rosary: http://www.giftsofaith.com/Files/lutheranrosary.pdf
