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The Degrees of Prayer 2: Don’t Turn Back
The Degrees of Prayer 2: Don’t Turn Back

We must be patient with heaven, and stubborn with hell.

The Degrees Of Prayer: Following The Story
The Degrees Of Prayer: Following The Story

Developing your prayer life can feel like a project to be planned and completed. Consider a different sense of what is happening when we get serious about prayer. When you begin to make prayer a serious focus of your life, you begin to follow a story.

Kindled in love
Kindled in love

The theology of St John of the Cross is focused on the necessity of self-discipline, but it begins and ends in love. This is not the dull path of obligation. It is an adventure, into a wild freedom.

“You do very well, O soul, to seek Him ever as one hidden, for you exalt God immensely and approach very near Him when you consider Him higher and deeper than anything you can reach.”

St. John of the Cross, The Spiritual Canticle, Stanza 1.12

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