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The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints is unavailable, but you can change that!

Ralph Martin, drawing upon the teaching of seven acknowledged Doctors of the Church, presents an in-depth study of the journey to God. This book provides encouragement and direction for the pilgrim who desires to know, love, and serve our Lord. Whether the reader is beginning the spiritual journey or has been traveling the road for many years, he will find a treasure of wisdom in The Fulfillment...

VARIOUS ATTEMPTS TO CLASSIFY THE STAGES of spiritual growth have been made over the centuries. The predominant classification, used by a number of the Doctors we are drawing from and many other writers as well, is the three-stage division of purgative, illuminative, and unitive. (Another major attempt at delineating the stages of growth is that of Saint Teresa of Avila, who divides the journey into seven “mansions” or stages.) In brief, the purgative stage or
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