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Preparing for Lent - Part 2

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Show Notes:

Fasting - What are the spiritual benefits continued…

  • Appetites - the insatiable nature of our appetites - never can find true satisfaction
  • True satisfaction is only found in relationship with God
  • Jesus modeled the practice of fasting
  • Desire to love God through self sacrifice
  • John of the Cross
    • Soul is finite and can’t love God and creation simultaneously
    • Attachments limit our spiritual growth
    • Illustrations of the impact of attachments - bird and hot air balloon
    • The contemplative life requires that we abandon attachments
    • Necessity of shedding habitual venial and mortal sin
    • We can be free of habitual sin and attachments - it really is possible
    • Attachment is an inordinate desire for pleasure
    • Faster way through dark night and into the illuminative way - rules for detachment (from Ascent of Mount Carmel)
    • Authentic Spiritual disciplines
      • Set us free rather than constrain us
      • Give us true and lasting joy
      • Melissa’s example of the wrong way to prepare for lent - Sunkist!
      • Spiritual self-evaluation using Navigating the Interior Life
        • The goal of all spiritual discipline is to know and love God in this life and beyond
        • Evaluate sacramental participation (confession, adoration, reconciliation)
        • Can we increase our participation in Mass for lent?
          • John of the Cross - every negation is also an affirmation
          • Can we increase participation in Adoration?
            • Melissa’s experience of the impact of Adoration
            • Other practices of self-evaluation from Navigating the Interior Life

              • Next Show:

              • More on Preparing for Lent - the goal is to conclude this series with simple and clear steps to lenten planning.

                • Resources:

                • Divine Intimacy by Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen - Published by Baronius Press
                  • http://spiritualdirection.com/DivineIntimacy
                  • Navigating the Interior Life - Spiritual Direction and the Journey to God
                    • http://spiritualdirection.com/Navigating
                    • Guide for Examination of Conscience Download
                      • Avila Institute Daily Examen Prayer Guide
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