Acedia Allover Earth..

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Acedia Allover Earth..

For sure as the meek do seek;
There is so many by the wayside
For of Acedia I shall here now speak,
And to which I shall never Abide.

As I see the levels are so astounding,
Fed it seems, by sorrows of the world.
And so many now do worketh death;
Malicious Minds, theme of war unfurled.

To the negligence of inaction;
We're bound to the depression,
and of flesh, the always giving in;

To temptation from ourselves and out,
We own a ongoing inward expression;
Of the deeper I within now sowing sin.

Our apathy downs the thoughtlessness,
For as we now lullaby our own suicides;
Walking dead, vice and stall of progress,
as ever our own deliverance now hides.

DrB...

Acedia

From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia

Acedia (also accidie or accedie, from
Latin acidĭa, and this from Greek
ἀκηδία, negligence) describes a state
of listlessness or torpor, of not
caring or not being concerned with
one's position or condition in the
world. It can lead to a state of being
unable to perform one's duties in
life. Its spiritual overtones make it
related to but distinct from
depression.
[1] Acedia was originally
noted as a problem among monks
and other ascetics who maintained a
solitary life.

Description
The Oxford Concise Dictionary of
the Christian Church [2] defines
acedia as "a state of restlessness and
inability either to work or to pray".
Some see it as the precursor to sloth
- one of the seven deadly sins. In his
sustained analysis of the vice in Q.
35 of the Second Part (Secunda
Secundae) of his book Summa
Theologica, theologian Thomas
Aquinas identifies acedia with "the
sorrow of the world" (compare
Weltschmerz) that "worketh death"
and contrasts it with that sorrow
"according to God" described by St.
Paul in 2 Cor. 7:10. For Aquinas,
acedia is "sorrow about spiritual
good in as much as it is a Divine
good." It becomes a mortal sin
when reason consents to man's
"flight" (fugam) from the Divine
good, "on account of the flesh
utterly prevailing over the
spirit." (ST, II-II, 35, 3). Acedia is
essentially a flight from the world.
It leads to not caring even that one
does not care. The ultimate
expression of this is a despair that
ends in suicide.

Aquinas's teaching on acedia in Q.
35 is rendered fully intelligible when
read in light of his prior teaching on
that to which the vice is directly
opposed, charity's gifted "spiritual
joy," which he explores in Q. 28 of
the Secunda Secundae . As Aquinas
says, "One opposite is known
through the other, as darkness
through light. Hence also what evil
is must be known from the nature
of good." (ST, I, 48, 1). The demon
of acedia holds an important place
in early monastic demonology and
psychology. Evagrius of Pontus, for
example, characterizes it as "the
most troublesome of all" of the
eight genera of evil thoughts. As
with those who followed him,
Evagrius sees acedia as am
temptation, and the great danger
lies in giving in to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acedia