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Episode 5 Beginning to Pray: Day 3 Prayer 1  - "We will come to him and make our home in him" The post BTP5 Heaven In Faith Day 3 Prayer 1 by St. Elizabeth of the Trinity – Beginning to Pray with Dr. Anthony Lilles – Discerning Hearts Podcasts appeared first on Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts .

Episode 4 Beginning to Pray: "Heaven in Faith" Day 2 Prayer 2 - "Hurry and Come Down" The post BTP4 Heaven In Faith: Day 2 Prayer 2 by St. Elizabeth of the Trinity – Beginning to Pray with Dr. Anthony Lilles – Discerning Hearts Podcasts appeared first on Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts .

Dr. Anthony Lilles and Kris McGregor continue Heaven in Faith with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity’s reflection on “The kingdom of God is within you.” This Catholic podcast explores grace, baptism, interior prayer, St. John of the Cross and the Carmelite path of discovering Christ in the depths of the soul. The post BTP3 Heaven In Faith: Day 2 Prayer 1 by St. Elizabeth of the Trinity – Beginnin...

Dr. Anthony Lilles and Kris McGregor begin Heaven in Faith with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity’s first prayer, “Remain in Me.” This Catholic podcast explores baptism, Scripture, contemplative prayer and the soul’s true home in the Trinity. The post BTP1 Heaven In Faith Day 1 Prayer 1 by St. Elizabeth of the Trinity – Beginning to Pray w/ Dr. Anthony Lilles – Discerning Hearts Podcast app...

By far, this book is the BEST on the subject of the Sacred Heart of Jesus that I have seen in a very long time. So very practical and deep in its spiritual appreciation of this beautifully essential devotion for our lives, Fr. James Kubicki helps all to rediscover the devotion to the Sacred Heart. He presents the history of this timely devotion, with help of the apostles, Church Fathers, the Saint...

An Excerpt from today's posting and podcast: Catherine of Siena - passion for truth She is an important figure for those who see a rediscovery of prayer as the force of renewal in the Church. Because she put her devotion to Christ first, she found herself with a spiritual mission to help restore the life and unity of Christ's body. Some of her efforts met with a little success. But as she approach...

Scriptural Stations of the Cross – Mp3 audio and Text podcast The following stations of the cross are based on those celebrated by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday 1991. They are presented here as an alternative to the traditional stations and as a way of reflecting more deeply on the Scriptural accounts of ... Read more The post Scriptural Stations of the Cross – Mp3 audio and Text po...

Jacob wrestling with Angel. The mystery of the name. We have to let God ask us who we are or will you resist and remain isolated? Our prayer is only going to be fruitful if we surrender ourselves to the question...who are you? Like Jacob, once we give over our name then God can begin to transfigure that name, or in other words, our persons to be more inline with His will, His love, His power. Even...

“Life without prayer has no meaning or points of reference". The relationship between the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit is so essential to our understanding of prayer. The meaning of the Church. Suffering the coming of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is the face of God. Do not be afraid, He will teach you happiness. The post SOP1 – Why We Need Prayer – The School of Prayer: Reflections...

The following prayer covers most of the significant areas of forgiveness. Often, such a prayer will bring to mind other areas that need forgiveness. Let the Holy Spirit move freely and guide your mind to persons or groups that you need to forgive. This is especially useful before confession. Lord Jesus Christ, I ask today to forgive everyone in my life. I know that You will give me the strength to...

In this final episode, Fr. McDermott discuss the final step of the spiritual life which is actually comprised of two stages: "perfect love" and "perfect union". On the "Christ-Bridge" we find ourselves with St. Catherine at the "mouth" of Christ which corresponds to the first chapter of the "Song of Songs". Fr. McDermott expands on St. Catherine's teachings on the role we have as sons and daughter...

"Probes: Deep Sea Diving into St. John's Gospel" is a beautiful union of Scripture Study and the prayer experience of Lectio Divina.  I've never seen anything quite like it (and I hope I see more). What the reader will find is that diving deeper is actually climbing higher.  Under Dr. Kreeft's guidance, we learn to ask penetrating questions of Sacred Scripture, but more importantly, we learn to li...

Episode 3 Beginning to Pray: "Heaven in Faith" Day 2 Prayer 1 - "The Kingdom of God is Within You" From "Heaven in Faith: Day 2 Prayer 1" found in The Complete Works vol 1: 6. The same saint also says that "God is the center of the soul. So when the soul with all" its "strength will know God perfectly, love and enjoy Him fully, then it will have reached the deepest center that can be attained in H...

Episode 4 Beginning to Pray: "Heaven in Faith" Day 2 Prayer 2 - "Hurry and Come Down" 8. "As long as our will has fancies that are foreign to divine union, whims that are now yes, now no, we are like children: we do not advance with giant steps in love for fire has not yet burnt up all the alloy; the gold is not pure; we are still seeking ourselves; God has not consumed" all our hostility to Him....

Episode 5 Beginning to Pray: "Heaven in Faith" Day 3 Prayer 1 - "We will come to him and make our home in him" From "Heaven in Faith: Day 3 Prayer 1" found in The Complete Works vol 1: 8. ... "Each incident, each event, each suffering, as well as each joy, is a sacrament which gives God to it; so it no longer makes a distinction between these things; it surmounts them, goes beyond them to rest in...

11. "You have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God" St. Paul comes to bring us a light to guide us on the pathway of the abyss. "You have died"! What does that mean but that the soul that aspires to live close to God "in the invincible fortress of holy recollection" must be "set apart, stripped, and withdrawn from all things" (in spirit). This soul "finds within itself a simple ascendin...

Episode 7 Beginning to Pray: "Heaven in Faith" Day 4 Prayer 1 - "Our God, wrote St. Paul, is a consuming Fire" From "Heaven in Faith: Day 4 Prayer 1" found in The Complete Works vol 1: 13. "Dues ignis consumens," Our God, wrote St. Paul, is a consuming Fire, that is a "a fire of love" which destroys, which "transforms into itself everything that it touches." "The delights of the divine enkindling...

16. But to attain to this love the soul must first be "entirely surrendered, its "will must be calmly lost in God's will; so that its "inclinations," "its faculties" "move only in this love and for the sake of this love. I do every with love, I suffer everything with love: this is what David meant when he sang, 'I will keep all my strength for You.'" The post BTP#8 Beginning to Pray w/ Dr. Anthony...

From "Heaven in Faith: Day 5 Prayer 1" found in The Complete Works vol 1: 17. Behold, I stand at the door and knock, If any man listens to My voice and opens the door to Me, I ell come in to him and sup with him, and he with Me." Blessed the ears of the soul alert enough, recollected enough to hear the voice of the Word of God; blessed also the eyes of this soul which in the light of a deep and li...

"Heaven in Faith" Day 5 Prayer 2 - "He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood, remains in Me and I in him." 18. ...."The first sign of love is this: that Jesus has given us His flesh to eat and His blood to drink." "The property of love is to be always giving and always receiving. Now this love " of Christ is "generous. All that He has, all that He is, He gives; all that we have , all that we are,...

Episode 13 Beginning to Pray: "Heaven in Faith" Day 7 Prayer 1 - "God chose us in Him before creation, that we should be holy and immaculate in His presence, in love. 22. "Our created essence asks to be rejoined with its principle", The Word, "the Splendor of the Father, is the eternal archtype after which creatures are designed on the day of their creation." This is 'why God wills that, freed fro...

From "Heaven in Faith: Day 8 Prayer 1" found in The Complete Works vol 1: 26. This is how the mystery of predestination, the mystery of divine election appeared to the enlightened gaze of the Apostle. "Those whom He has foreknown" Are not we of that number? Cannot God say to our soul what he once said through the voice of His prophet: "I passed by you and saw you. I saw that the time had come for...

From "Heaven in Faith: Day 8 Prayer 2" found in The Complete Works vol 1: 32. "See," says St. John, "what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God' and such we are....Now we are the children of God, and we have not yet seen what we shall be. We know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He is. And everyone who has thi...

From "Heaven in Faith: Day 10 Prayer 2" found in The Complete Works vol 1: 44. ...In the heaven of our soul let us be praises of glory of the Holy Trinity, praises of love of our Immaculate Mother. One day the veil will fall, we will be introduced into the eternal courts, and there will we will sing in the bosom of infinite Love. And God will give us "the new name promised to the Victor."" What wi...

King of the Holy Family and Prince of the Church - Episode 3 - St. Joseph with Sonja Corbitt St. Joseph is stepping into a more visible role in the Church right now, and inviting you to develop a relationship with him. In learning about his roles as prophet, priest, and king of the Holy Family and prince of the Church, we get to know him more personally, and how he operates in those roles on our b...