In June of 2020, Elliot, the proprietor of the YouTube channel, Mauritian Struggle, posted a video in which he critiqued the last half-hour or so of a video by Steve Franssen. I think anyone would benefit from watching Elliot's video, but I was intrigued enough to consider Franssen's video from my own Augustinian-Calvinist perspective.
Link to Franssen's video: https://youtu.be/lQn1zrl1nAk
Link to Eliot's video: https://youtu.be/dRELYRy9RY8
Eliot's Recommendations (to be the sort of politically-involved Christian who can confront power, for example Moses, Elijah):
Going to church
Being men and women of prayer, especially saying, chanting or singing the psalms.
Praying the Rosary
Meditative/Spiritual Reading, the Scriptures, daily, of course, but also:
The Preparation For Death by St Alphonsus Ligouri, which is intense but really puts life into perspective
The Philokalia, or Love of beauty. This'll teach you the way the earliest monks struggled to fight against this themselves. Volume I is particularly good
The Sayings of The Desert Fathers, which are a set of short stories about these monks
Scriptural Order:
His recommended reading list:
The Preparation For Death by St Alphonsus Ligouri, which is intense but really puts life into perspective
The Philokalia, or Love of beauty. This'll teach you the way the earliest monks struggled to fight against this themselves. Volume I is particularly good
The Sayings of The Desert Fathers, which are a set of short stories about these monks
Scriptural Order:
Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, 1&2 Samuel, 1&2 Kings, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1 Maccabees, Luke, and Acts. This is the story
John, Ecclesiastes, Job and The Song of Songs
My suggestions:
-Thomas Watson’s Body of Divinity
-John Murray’s, Redemption: Accomplished and Applied
-John Owens, The Mortification of Sin in Believers
-Matthew Henry, A Church in the House
Link to Anglican BCP (1979): https://www.bcponline.org/
Link to Anglican BCP (1928): http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1928/BCP_1928.htm
Link to the Office of Compline: http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1892/Compline_1892.htm
Link to instructions for the Lutheran Rosary: http://www.giftsofaith.com/Files/lutheranrosary.pdf
Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jf-sols/message