The Noonday Devil

The simple, direct style of this work makes the reader feel involved and challenged to consider anew what is essential in his existence.- Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops (Rome)With clarity and penetrating insight, Abbot Nault unmasks the pernicious demon of acedia, showing how it tempts souls in every state of life and why it may well be the zeitgeist of our time. A most helpful and encouraging book on a long-overdue topic.- Johnnette Benkovic, EWTN host; Founder, Women of Grace®A revelation, a modern-day treatise on an ancient and yet familiar foe. This book can transform the spiritual life of those willing to dive in and go deeper.- Vinny Flynn, Author, 7 Secrets of the EucharistDom Nault’s book shows how acedia is the unwillingness to ask the questions about the meaning of our lives. Hence those burdened by the vice busy themselves in all sorts of activities and distractions. Nault’s reflections are most welcome in a world that sees so much darkness at noon-time and wonders why.- James V. Schall, S. J., Author, Reasonable Pleasures

Dom Jean-Charles Nault, O.S.B., has been the abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Wandrille (or Fontenelle Abbey) in Normandy, France, since 2009. He entered the monastery in 1988, earned a doctorate in theology from the John Paul II Pontifical Institute in Rome (Lateran University), and received from Pope Benedict XVI, then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the first Henri de Lubac Prize for his thesis on acedia, La Saveu de Dieu.