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Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel—On Prayer is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

religious I meet infused prayer frequently, and I find that Teresa and John remain the best guides we have to the mystical experiences that continue to flourish among our saintly laymen, sisters, brothers and priests. If others do not find what I find, several questions might be asked. Are the people to whom they speak wholeheartedly living Gospel humility, poverty, obedience and commitment to the Church in the way that saints live these virtues? If not, they will not, of course, find much infused
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