The Virtue of Devotion

Father Jacob Bertrand: The virtue of devotion shapes our choice and makes us prompt. He says the word mortification comes from the word for death, a kind of death that we do unto ourselves. So if your desire for food and drink and sexual intercourse is so intense you can't think about prayer or other things besides, then that's a problem,. We have to practice a little bit of mortification or we might just say penance in order to reign that in. And he gives his thoughts on how we kind of manage or balance this.