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Aidan Byrne presents solo this week while Deacon Don is on pilgrimage in Medjugorje. He continues the series on the cardinal virtues, arriving at temperance, the moral virtue that moderates the attraction of pleasures and provides balance in the use of created goods.

Drawing on Catechism articles 1804, 1784, 1785 and 1809, he unpacks temperance through several lenses: St. Augustine’s Confessions and the journey from heresy and fornication to conversion at the words of St. Paul to the Romans; Venerable Matt Talbot’s transformation from alcoholism through the pledge to a life of heroic piety; St. Carlo Acutis turning the allurements of technology toward Eucharistic miracles; and a rich meditation on 1 Samuel 17:40 (the passage on David’s five smooth stones) — through the sermons of St. Anthony of Padua, where the staff is the cross, the stones are the Pentateuch and the bag is the grace of the New Testament.

A listener message from a man struggling with addiction prompts an extended prayer through the intercession of Venerable Matt Talbot. Aiden also discusses suitable Catholic Bible editions and the importance of examining what we are feeding our souls in preparation for Divine Mercy Sunday confession.

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