Journeying With The Saints

Today, we are reading from the Sixth Mansion, Chapter Three, numbers 6-10.   Topics are: 6. First sign of genuine locutions. 7. Effect of the words: "Be not troubled." 8. "It is I, be not afraid."  9. "Be at peace."  10. Second sign.  

Today, we are reading from the Sixth Mansion, Chapter Three, numbers 1-5. Topics are: 1. Locutions. 2. Sometimes caused by melancholia. 3. Caution needed at first. 4. Locutions frequently occur during prayer. 5. Resist those containing false doctrine.  

Today is going to be a bit different. I don't know if you've flipped to the next page after our last reading, but if you have, you saw that we have an Introductory Note to Chapter Three. This isn't written by St. Teresa. This is by the editor at St. Benedict Press. From what it looks like, these few pages are a chance to define our terms and get a better understanding of what we are going to read...

Today, we are reading from the Sixth Mansion, Chapter Two, numbers 10-15.  Topics are: 10. First reason of immunity from deception. 11. Second and third reasons. 12. The imagination not concerned in it. 13. St. Teresa never alarmed at this prayer. 14. "The odor of Thine ointment."  15. No reason to fear deception here.  

Today, we are reading from the Sixth Mansion, Chapter Two, Numbers 6-9.  Topics are: 6. A spark of the fire of love. 7. The spark dies out. 8. This grace evidently divine. 9. One such wound repays many trials. 

Today, we are reading from the Sixth Mansion, Chapter Two, numbers 1-5. Topics are: 1. Our Lord excites the love of His spouse. 2. The wound of love. 3. The pain it causes. 4. The call of the Bridegroom.  5. Effect on the soul.       

Today is the 50th episode! We will be reading from the Sixth Mansion, Chapter One, numbers 24-27. Topics are: 24. Remedies for the interior trials. 25. Trials caused by the devil. 26. Other afflictions. 27. Preparatory to entering the seventh mansions.

Today, we are reading from the Sixth Mansion, Chapter One, numbers 19-23. Topics are: 19. Bewilderment of the soul.  20. God alone relieves these troubles. 21. Human weakness. 22. Earthly consolations are of no avail. 23. Prayer gives no comfort at such a time.   

Today, we are reading from the Sixth Mansion, Chapter One, numbers 14-18. Topics are: 14. St. Teresa's physical ills. 15. A timorous confessor. 16. Anxiety on account of past sins. 17. Fears and aridity. 18. Scruples and fears raised by the devil.  

We have an interesting milestone today. Today, we will end on the page that is halfway through the readings. We have crested the hill, so to speak.  Our readings today will be from the Sixth Mansion, Chapter One, numbers 5-13. Topics are: 5. Ourcry raised against souls striving for perfection.  6. St. Teresa's personal experience of this. 7. Praise distasteful to an enlightened soul. 8. This chang...

Congratulations! We made it to the Sixth Mansion. Today, we are reading from the Sixth Mansion, Chapter One, numbers 1-4. Topics are:  1. Love kindled by divine favors. 2. Our Lord excites the soul's longings. 3. Courage needed to reach the last mansions. 4. Trials accompanying divine favors.    

Another milestone day! We are finishing the Fifth Mansion today.  We will be reading from the Fifth Mansion, Fourth Chapter, numbers 8-12. Topics are: 8. Prayer and watchfulness our safeguards. 9. God's watchfulness over such souls.  10. Progress in virtue. 11. Insignificance of our actions compared wtih their reward. 12. St. Teresa's motives for writing on paper.   

Today, we are reading from the Fifth Mansion, Chapter Four, numbers 4-7. Topics are: 4. The great good done by souls faithful to these graces. 5. Religious subject to the devil's deceptions. 6. Satan's stratagems. 7. Why they are permitted. 

Our readings today will be from the Fifth Mansion, Fourth Chapter, numbers 1-3. Topics are: 1. The spiritual espousals. 2. The prayer of union resembles a betrothal. 3. Before the spiritual nuptials temptations are dangerous.   

Mini-milestone: We finish the third chapter of the fifth mansion today! Our readings will be from the Fifth Mansion, Chapter Three, numbers 10-12. Topics are: 10. Illusionary good resolutions. 11. Works, not feelings, procure union. 12. Fraternal charity will certainly gain this union.  

Today, we are reading from the Fifth Mansion, Chapter Three, numbers 7-9. Topics are: 7. Divine union obtained by perfect love of God and our neighbor. 8. Love for God and our neighbor are proportionate. 9. Real and imaginary virtues.  

Congratulations, we hit day 40! Today, we are reading from the Fifth Mansion, Chapter Three, numbers 4-6. Topics are: 4. Union with the Will of God the basis of all supernatural union.  5. Advantage of union gained by self-mortificaton. 6. Defects which hinder this union.  

Today, we are reading from the Fifth Mansion, Chapter Three, numbers 1-3.  Topics are: 1. Zeal for souls left by divine union. 2. The soul may fall from such a state. 3. How divine union may always be obtained.  

Today, we are reading from the Fifth Mansion, Chapter Two, numbers 9-13.  Topics are: 9. Longing for death and zeal for God's honor. 10. This zeal supernatural. 11. God alone works this grace. 12. The same zeal as that felt by Our Lord on earth.  13. Christ's keenest suffering. 

Today, we are reading from the Fifth Mansion, Chapter Two, numbers 5-8. Topics are: 5. Mystic death of the silkworm. 6. Effects of divine union. 7. Increase of fervor and detachment. 8. Trials succeeding the prayer of union.    

Today, we are reading from the Fifth Mansion, Chapter Two, numbers 1-4. Topics included are: 1. The soul compared to a butterfly. 2. The grandeurs of creation. 3. Symbol of the soul and the silkworm. 4. Preparation of the soul for God's indwelling. 

Today, we are finishing up Chapter One of the Fifth Mansion. Our readings will be from Chapter One, numbers 8-10. Topics are:   8. Proof of Union 9. Assurance left in the soul. 10. Divine union beyond our power to obtain.   

Today, we are reading from the Fifth Mansion, Chapter One, numbers 5-7. Topics are: 5. The prayer of union and of quiet contrasted. 6. Divine and earthly union. 7. Competent directors in these matters. Our sponsor today is Chrism Press. To purchase your copy of "Shadowed Loyalty" go here: https://chrismpress.com/ . Use coupon code "pilgrim15" to get 15% off your first order.

Today, we are entering the Fifth Mansion. We'll be reading from Chapter One, number 1-4. Topics are: 1. Graces of the Fifth Mansion. 2. Contemplation to be striven for.  3. Physical effects of the prayer of union. 4. Amazement of the intellect.   

Today, we are finishing the Fourth Mansion. Our readings will be from the third chapter, numbers 10-13.  Topics are: 10. The devil specially tempts such souls.  11. False trances and raptures. 12. How to treat those deluded in this way. 13. Risks of delusion in this mansion.