The Apostle of Joy: Philip Neri and the Practice of Delight

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The Apostle of Joy: Philip Neri and the Practice of Delight

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In the anxious, buttoned-up world of Counter-Reformation Rome, a cheerful priest named Philip Neri walked the streets every day with a book of jokes in his pocket. Not because everything was fine --- he had held enough suffering in his hands to have no illusions --- but because he had understood something the centuries keep forgetting: that joy is not a circumstance, not a temperament, not a reward for sufficient seriousness. It is a practice. Chosen daily, carried deliberately, available to anyone willing to pick it up. Harmonia tells the story of the man history calls the Apostle of Joy, and asks what it might mean to put something in your own pocket tomorrow morning. Transcript available at: https://harmonia.email/podcast-episode/apostle-joy-philip-neri-and-practice-delight Share and read comments: https://harmonia.email/podcast-comments?field_podcast_feed_value=the_golden_thread&from_node=348

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