21 Mar 2014
Continuing
with some signs of the person in the Illuminative State, at the highest
stage, here are a few more characteristics. Eleven: the person is no
longer living in a subjective reality, but in objectivity, taking
nothing ...
21 Mar 2014
Here
are a few signs of someone who is in the Illuminative State. These are
taken from Garrigou-Lagrange, St. Catherine, and from observation. One,
the person easily lives a life of virtue, without constraints and with
joy, ...
09 Feb 2014
The
Illuminative State will be discussed further in the series on
perfection, but here I want to concentrate on the ending of the time of
Affective Prayer and the moving into true Contemplative Prayer. Here is
Garrigou-Lagrange ...
12 Nov 2013
Two
points stand out on the characteristics of the Illuminative and Unitive
Stages, to which I have been referring during the perfection and Dark
Night series in the past two years. Those people who enter into the
Illuminative, ...
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25 Nov 2012
For
the sake of the laity trying to understand the stages of perfection,
may I point out that today in the TLM, the reading from Colossians of
St. Paul is a description of the illuminative state. Here it is. EPISTLE
Col. 1:9-14
28 Jan 2013
I
do. Garrigou-Lagrange has these three in his section on the
Illuminative State, which I think will be helpful for all of us.
Garrigou-Lagrange's next chapter highlight St. Catherine and Bl. Henry,
and here are some of his ...
19 Feb 2013
Part
36: Doctors of the Church-Anselm and the Illuminative State. Posted by
Supertradmum. Before I finish St. Anselm, I must address some questions
from a few who have asked me whether God really does want us to
pursue ...
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03 Apr 2012
Lenten
Series of Perfection--The Illuminative Stage. Posted by Supertradmum.
Father Gabriel continues with his clarification of St. John of the
Cross' stages of purification. The movement from the prayer of
meditation, which ...
01 Aug 2014
Most
Catholics go to St. John of the Cross or St. Teresa of Avila for the
description of the Illuminative and Unitive States. However, I find St.
Bernard's writings more clear. St. Teresa was, despite her descriptions
of the ...
24 Jan 2013
It
is only in the Illuminative State that we can do the works of God. All
out works before that belong to our humanity and not eternal merit or
good. I know that sounds harsh but until we are purified all our works
are not beginning ...
