Journeying With The Saints

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 about in the third chapter of the sixth mansion. This is good, because it will help clarify things for us and it gives us some examples.

It will be a short and sweet reading with no added reflection.

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 changes to indifference.

9. Humility of such souls.

10. Their zeal for God's glory.

11. Perfect and final indifference to praise or blame.

12. Love of enemies.

13. Bodily sufferings.

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.