Journeying With The Saints

Today, we are reading from the Sixth Mansion, Chapter Eight, numbers 1-6.

Topics are:

1. Our Lord's presence accompanying the soul.

2. St. Teresa's experience of this.

3. Confidence and graces resulting from this vision.

4. Its effects.

5. It produces humility.

6. And prepares the soul for other graces.

Today, we are reading from the Sixth Mansion, Chapter Seven, numbers 16-19. We will be finishing the seven chapter!

Topics are:

16. Need of the example of Christ and the Saints.

17. Faith shows us Our Lord as both God and Man.

18. St. Teresa's experience of meditation on the Sacred Humanity.

19. Evil of giving up such meditation.

Today, we are reading from the Sixth Mansion, Chapter Seven, numbers 12-15.

Topics are:

12. Reasoning and mental prayer.

13. A form of meditation on Our Lord's Life and Passion.

14. Simplicity of contemplatives' meditation.

15. Souls in every state of prayer should think of the Passion.

Today, we are reading from the Sixth Mansion, Chapter Seven, numbers 6-11.

Topics are:

6. Meditation on Our Lord's Humanity.

7. Warning against discontinuing it.

8. Christ and the Saints our models.

9. Meditation of contemplatives.

10. Meditation during aridity.

11. We must search for God when we do not feel His presence.

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Today, we will be reading from the Sixth Mansion, Chapter Seven, numbers 1-5.

Topics are:

1. Sorrow for sin felt by souls in the Sixth Mansion.

2. How this sorrow is felt.

3. St. Teresa's grief for her past sins.

4. Such souls, centered in God, forget self-interest.

5. The remembrance of divine benefits increases contrition.

Today, we are reading from the Sixth Mansion, Sixth Chapter, numbers 11-15.

Topics are:

11. The jubilee of the soul.

12. Impossibility of concealing this joy.

13. The world's judgment of this jubilee.

14. Which is often felt by the nuns of St. Joseph's.

15. The Saint's delight in this jubilee.

Today, we are reading from the Sixth Mansion, Chapter Six, numbers 6-10.

Topics are:

6. They endanger health.

7. Tears often come from physical causes.

8. St Teresa's own experience.

9. Works, not tears, are asked by God.

10. Confide entirely in God.

Today, we are reading from the Sixth Mansion, the Sixth Chapter, numbers 1-5.

Topics are:

1. The soul longs for death.

2. The soul cannot help desiring these favors.

3. St. Teresa bewails her inability to serve God.

4. Fervor resulting from ecstatsies.

5. Excessive desire to see God should be restrained.

Today, we finish another chapter!

Our readings will be from the Sixth Mansion, Chapter Five, numbers 8-14.

Topics are:

8. Mysteries learnt during the flight of the spirit.

9. Imaginary visions sometimes accompany intellectual ones.

10. How the flight of the spirit takes place.

11. The soul fortified by it.

12. Three great graces left in the soul.

13. The third grace.

14. Fear caused by this favor.

Welcome to chapter five of the sixth mansion!

Today, we are reading from the Sixth Mansion, Chapter Five, numbers 1-7. It's a little longer, but hang with me.

Topics are:

1. The flight of the spirit.

2. Self-control completely lost.

3. Symbol of the two cisterns.

4. Obligations following these favors.

5. Humility produced by them.

6. How our crucified Lord comforted such a soul.

7. A humble soul fears these favors.