By Thomas DuBay
This publication is the fruit of Fr. Dubay's a long time of analysis and adventure in religious course and in it he synthesizes the lessons on prayer of the 2 nice medical professionals of the Church on prayer--St. John of the go and St. Teresa of Avila--and the educating of Sacred Scripture. however the educating that Fr. Dubay synthesized isn't accumulated from Teresa and John for contemplatives on my own. it's intended for each Christian and relies at the Gospel primary of private prayer and the decision to holiness. all of the significant parts of those nice lecturers are ordered, commented on and installed the context in their scriptural foundations. here's a great ebook on prayer and the non secular lifestyles written via the most effective non secular administrators and retreat masters of our time, and in line with the writings of the Church's maximum mystical medical professionals.
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26 Yes. Precisely because we ordinary people are far, far behind, bewildered and astonished, we need reliable guides like Ss. Teresa and John, who can familiarize us with the path to the spiritual summit and help us discover how we too can become disposed for the inflowing of divine fullness, the fire within. CHAPTER TWO THE WOMAN AND THE MAN Genuine prayer, liturgical or contemplative, does not happen in a vacuum. Depth of communion with the indwelling Trinity occurs only in a person intent on living the Gospel totally, one who is humble and patient, temperate and obedient, pure and kind, free of selfish clingings.
Teresa’s natural gifts is important for an adequate understanding of her and her teaching, without a grasp of her direct relationship with the triune God of revelation, we simply do not know this woman as she was. The saint was profoundly affected and enlightened by a whole stream of undoubtedly authentic and deep encounters with the Lord Himself. No one who takes the trouble to study what she has to say about these matters and at the same time recalls the highly intelligent and no-nonsense person we are dealing with will be inclined to question the reality of what she narrates.
There is nothing lukewarm about the God of revelation. Always radical and total, never does He reduce what He expects of us to fractions. Our communion with Him is to become a blazing fire, a perpetual ecstasy. These strong words will sound strange and exaggerated only to those who have not tasted that the Lord is good. They may have studied and read, but they have not drunk deeply. 22 This text, too, is an excellent summation of much of this present work, namely, the gradual but inevitable transformation of a generous person that accompanies parallel growth in depth of communion with the indwelling Trinity.
