As we embark on a new school year, we are full of resolutions for the family routine. How will we order our week to support the highest goods? How will we fit it all in?

Not to be overlooked while charting the course: our keeping of the Sabbath. Last April, author and teacher Daniel Fitzpatrick released his book Restoring the Lord’s Day: How Reclaiming Sunday Can Revive Our Human Nature. Daniel sits down with us at HeightsCast to discuss the book, which examines the cultural drift away from a sense of Sabbath, why we should restore this God-given rhythm to our lives, and the scriptural support for how to do it.

Chapters:

• 4:09 Inattention to the Sabbath: modern or ageless?
• 7:54 Acedia, primary vice against the Sabbath
• 12:32 Challenges of the five-day work week
• 17:24 Festivity and sacrifice
• 21:56 The draw of sports as they relate to beauty
• 24:30 The good, UNrestful activities of Sunday
• 31:09 Practical advice for young families
• 35:38 Preparing on Saturday
• 40:44 Concluding the Sabbath
• 43:22 Reckoning with the necessity of labor

Links:

• Restoring the Lord’s Day: How Reclaiming Sunday Can Revive Our Human Nature by Daniel Fitzpatrick
• Joie de Vivre: A Journal of Art, Culture, and Letters for South Louisiana edited by Daniel Fitzpatrick
• Grace Fitzpatrick Art, Byzantine iconography by Grace Fitzpatrick

Featured Opportunities:

• The Art of Teaching Conference at The Heights School (November 13-15, 2024)

Also on the Forum:

• Work and Acedia: On Our Original Vocation featuring R. J. Snell
• Leisure and Acedia: On Contemplative Homes in a Frenetic Age featuring R. J. Snell