Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel

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This book is the fruit of Thomas Dubay’s many years of study and experience in spiritual direction and in it he synthesizes the teachings on prayer of the two great doctors of the Church on prayer—St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila—and the teaching of Sacred Scripture. But the teaching that Dubay synthesized is not collected from Teresa and John for contemplatives alone. It is meant...

Unfortunately, however, what we are calling worthy suffering is not common, and this is a principal reason why advanced prayer is not common, even though everyone is called to it. We have pious desires for a generalized carrying of the cross, but when the time comes, our desires dissolve like mist before the morning sun. Contrary to all the evidence, many of us assume that our progress in prayer will be furthered if only we find the right procedures, occidental or oriental, some method of meditation

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