30 Jan 2014
Continuing the series on perfection, I have switched temporarily from Garrigou-Lagrange to the Interior Castle of St. Teresa of Avila. In this book, St. Teresa refers to the enlargement of the heart. Quoting Prime, Teresa writes, ...
22 Aug 2014
What falsity to wish to talk in a glowing style as if one were already in the seventh mansion of the interior castle, when one has not yet entered the fourth! How far superior is the simplicity of the Gospel! We say that a child's ...
07 May 2015
St. Teresa of Avila writes clearly on the Indwelling of the Trinity. Here is a selection from The Interior Castle or The Mansions. I have many more posts on this from the past, but this week, I am re-examining this truth.
10 May 2015
from the Stanbrook Edition of Interior Castle.... .... dealing with the purgation of the soul by mortification and the enlightenment of the mind by meditation. There, too, appears the first idea of the Mansions, [25] and Fuente ...
09 May 2015
A brief description of the unitive state from the Interior Castle. Here one sees the great revelation of the Indwelling. of the Holy Trinity which God desires us all to experience, to know...even while on earth. This is a repeat post, ...
13 Jun 2015
The Interior Castle, First Manson, Chapter ii. The Maritains, who were both Benedictine Oblates, wrote this as well: "The study of the Sacred Doctrine and of Holy Scripture is also a normally necessary means of the attainment ...
09 May 2015
Very brief description of the illuminative state. Posted by Supertradmum. A mini-description of the illuminative state...leading to the unitive state. From a footnote, 418, in the online copy of the Interior Castle. Follow the tags for ...
10 Jul 2013
Catherine's Dialog and Teresa's Interior Castle give me comfort, as well as the knowledge that truth prevails despite so much spiritual warfare. But, as I am wedded to Truth, my way is not as hard as those who remain in ...
04 Aug 2013
In The Interior Castle she writes: O my God, how many troubles both interior and exterior must one suffer before entering the seventh mansion! Sometimes, while pondering over this I fear that, were they known beforehand, ...
16 Oct 2013
St. Teresa speaks of the passive purification of the spirit in the first chapter of the sixth mansion of The Interior Castle. We read also in the life of St. Vincent de Paul that for four years he endured a trial of this type, which was ...
24 Sep 2014
God rarely speaks in an audible voice, but He does speak through the interior movements of the Holy Spirit. Again, the teachings of the Church and common sense dictate what is good and true. The problem is usually not that ...
29 May 2013
Tauler declares: "There is only one way to triumph over these obstacles: God would have to take complete possession of the interior of the soul and occupy it, which happens only to His true friends. He sent us His only Son in order that the holy life of the God-Man, His great and perfect ... This little citadel, wherein lies the self-will, must be stormed by God. If one keeps running back into the castle of the self, God cannot speak to the heart and mind and will. And, as John ...