http://www.anamchara.com/2008/07/11/the-feast-of-st-benedict-ad-deificum-lumen/ Carl McColman ~ The Fullness of Joy is to Behold God in All Tue, 22 May 2012 04:20:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.anamchara.com/2008/07/11/the-feast-of-st-benedict-ad-deificum-lumen/#comment-4024 zoecarnate Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:02:56 +0000 http://mccolman.wordpress.com/?p=990#comment-4024 What a great message! My apophatic side especially likes "I’d like to start pushing the envelope. In the teaching of Jesus Himself on Prayer, He instructs all of us, “When you pray, go into your chamber ( your heart), close the door, and pray to your Father in secret.” The operative phrase, as I see it, is “close the door” = keep completely still, silent = shut down your normal consciousness, with its operations of thinking, desiring, imagining and remembering, especially and particularly the religious, biblical, ascetical, ideas, symbols, values, quotations." What a great message! My apophatic side especially likes “I’d like to start pushing the envelope. In the teaching of Jesus Himself on Prayer, He instructs all of us, “When you pray, go into your chamber ( your heart), close the door, and pray to your Father in secret.” The operative phrase, as I see it, is “close the door” = keep completely still, silent = shut down your normal consciousness, with its operations of thinking, desiring, imagining and remembering, especially and particularly the religious, biblical, ascetical, ideas, symbols, values, quotations.”

]]> http://www.anamchara.com/2008/07/11/the-feast-of-st-benedict-ad-deificum-lumen/#comment-4023 judith collier Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:31:53 +0000 http://mccolman.wordpress.com/?p=990#comment-4023 Wouldn't it be wonderful if all sermons were so enlightning. Even in confession one does not always get instructed in the spiritual life. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all sermons were so enlightning. Even in confession one does not always get instructed in the spiritual life.

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