Reflections from Saint Teresa of Ávila
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The Interior Journey Toward God: Reflections from Saint Teresa of Ávila attempts to take what many believe is Saint Teresa of Ávila’s greatest work, The Interior Castle, and break it down into successive lessons, reflections, and prayers. Each lesson is drawn from St. Teresa’s writings and seeks not only to explain each particular teaching concisely but also to help you, the reader, to apply the content to your own life.
This book can be used as a daily meditation book by which you can slowly ponder the teachings of Saint Teresa as she takes us through the various dwelling places of the soul. This book can also be used as a companion to the reading of Saint Teresa’s original spiritual masterpiece: TheInterior Castle.
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Table of Contents
Chapter One: The First Dwelling Places
Humility, humility, humility, and self-knowledge
Lesson One: An Image of the Soul
Lesson Two: The Beauty and Capacity of the Soul
Lesson Three: The Innermost Dwelling Place
Lesson Four: “Malodorous Worms”
Lesson Five: “Being” in the Castle
Lesson Six: The Gate of True Prayer
Lesson Seven: Entering the Door
Lesson Eight: The Effect of Mortal Sin
Lesson Nine: Self-Knowledge Acquired by Humility
Lesson Ten: False Humility From False Self-Knowledge
Lesson Eleven: Navigating the First Dwelling Places
Lesson Twelve: Blinded by the World
Lesson Thirteen: A Noiseless File
Chapter Two: The Second Dwelling Places
Gentle Perseverance in Prayer
Lesson Fourteen: Entering the Second Dwelling Places
Lesson Fifteen: Hearing the Lord Speak
Lesson Seventeen: Combating All the Powers of Hell
Lesson Eighteen: Spiritual Companions
Lesson Nineteen: Resolute Determination
Lesson Twenty: Good Out of Sin
Lesson Twenty-One: Prayer of Recollection
Chapter Three: The Third Dwelling Places
A Life Beautifully Ordered by Love
Lesson Twenty-Two: Fear of the Lord
Lesson Twenty-Three: Not Always a Saint
Lesson Twenty-Four: The Blessing of Human Weakness
Lesson Twenty-Five: Attainable by Many
Lesson Twenty-Six: Desire is Not Enough
Lesson Twenty-Seven: One Cause for Dryness in Prayer
Lesson Twenty-Eight: Consolations in Prayer
Lesson Twenty-Nine: Beyond Natural Prudence
Lesson Thirty: More Humility Needed
Lesson Thirty-One: Prompt Obedience
Lesson Thirty-Two: Inspired by Others
Chapter Four The Fourth Dwelling Places
An Amazing New World
Lesson Thirty-Three: Supernatural Prayer Begins
Lesson Thirty-Four: Sweetness in Devotion—Sensible Devotion
Lesson Thirty-Five: New and Infused Recollection
Lesson Thirty-Six: The Prayer of Quiet
Lesson Thirty-Seven: Signs of Love
Lesson Thirty-Eight: Battling the Imagination
Lesson Thirty-Nine: Understand Yourself
Lesson Forty: Five Ways to Obtain Humility
Lesson Forty-One: Continued Perseverance
Lesson Forty-Two: The devil’s “consolations”
Chapter Five The Fifth Dwelling Places
Entering the Paschal Mystery through the Prayer of Union
Lesson Forty-Three: Impossible to Depict
Lesson Forty-Four: The Prayer of Union
Lesson Forty-Five: At Least at the Portal
Lesson Forty-Six: A Delicious Death
Lesson Forty-Seven: The Work of Angels and demons
Lesson Forty-Eight: Transported to the Wine Cellar
Lesson Forty-Nine: The Silkworm
Lesson Fifty-One: An Agony of Love
Lesson Fifty-Two: The Divine Signet Ring
Lesson Fifty-Three: A Return to Sin
Lesson Fifty-Four: The “Short Cut” is Not Necessary
Lesson Fifty-Five: Spiritual Navel-Gazing
Lesson Fifty-Six: The Surest Sign
Lesson Fifty-Seven: Courtship Begins
Lesson Fifty-Eight: The devil’s Final Attack
Chapter Six The Sixth Dwelling Places
The Time of Betrothal
Lesson Fifty-Nine: The “Bad” News First
Lesson Sixty: Delicate Piercings From the Inmost Depths
Lesson Sixty-One: Imaginary Locution
Lesson Sixty-Two: Imaginary Visions
Lesson Sixty-Three: Intellectual Visions
Lesson Sixty-Four: Trances, Ecstasies or Raptures
Lesson Sixty-Five: Excessive Tears
Lesson Sixty-Six: Do Not Abandon the Sacred Humanity
Lesson Sixty-Seven: A Profound Awareness of Sin
Lesson Sixty-Eight: The Dart of Love
Chapter Seven The Seventh Dwelling Place
Spiritual Marriage
Lesson Sixty-Nine: A Second Heaven
Lesson Seventy: The Presence Chamber
Lesson Seventy-One: God’s Presence Remains
Lesson Seventy-Two: Like Rain Falling Into a Stream
Lesson Seventy-Three: Self-Forgetfulness
Lesson Seventy-Four: Strong Desire for Suffering
Lesson Seventy-Five: Love of Enemies
Lesson Seventy-Six: Desire to Serve God
Lesson Seventy-Seven: Interior Impulse
Lesson Seventy-Eight: Fortitude by God’s “Departure”
Lesson Seventy-Nine: The Heaviest Crosses
Lesson Eighty: The Culmination of Good Works
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