Most of our contemporaries know nothing about acedia. Few people are aware that this is what tradition identified as the famous ‘noonday devil’ feared by those who are going through the well-known ‘mid-life crisis’.… The very expression ‘noonday devil’ ought to catch our attention. Usually, indeed, the demon is associated with the night and not with broad daylight! Could it be precisely this unexpected character of a demon who comes to attach in the middle of the day that makes acedia a particularly terrible evil? Although the midday sun comes to bathe everything in its dazzling light, acedia, like an obscure malady, plunges the heart of the person that it afflicts into the gray fog of weariness and the night of despair. |
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