Interior Trials: Part VI We cannot avoid or conquer the “Dark Night of the Soul”. We rely on our spiritual routines to no avail. Prayer provides little comfort. Mediation is nearly impossible. “Solitude is even worse” — although we also…
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The Great Light of the Dark Night
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Dark Night of the Soul
Interior Trials: Part V We are powerless to end the “Dark Night of the Soul”. Teresa says, “grace is buried so deeply that the soul seems not to feel the smallest spark of any love for God”. No “earthly consolations”…
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Spiritual Confusion
Interior Trials: Part IV Spiritual confusion occurs when we get preoccupied with our sins. The truth becomes clouded and we don’t know what to believe anymore about God, about ourselves, about other people, or about the church. Our faculties of…
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Preoccupied With Our Sins
Interior Trials Part III Bonnie enjoyed a wonderful relationship with God, but her new faith community emphasized a pharisaical lifestyle and called it holiness. Under their influence Bonnie became preoccupied with her sins. At first she thought she was getting…
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The Scrupulous Spiritual Guide
Interior Trials: Part II Let us begin with the torture which it costs us to have to do with a confessor so scrupulous and inexperienced that he thinks nothing is safe: he is afraid of everything, and doubtful about everything,…
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