The Prayer of Loving Attention: CarmelCast Episode 69
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 พ.ค. 2024
- St. John of the Cross defines contemplation as "an inflow of God into the soul." In this episode, we discuss his teaching on how we can respond to God's invitation to contemplative prayer.
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Thank you for using a Q&A format for a difficult subject. I am an OCDS for 29 years. This is probably the clearest and most easily understood description of contemplation that I have heard. I love your videos. Thank you so much!
Oh I so do agree. I am 67 years old. I felt called to be a nun when I was 12 yo.
I thought I was imagining things & thinking I was more than what I was.
I thought if my experience’s. And I realized I was Not imagining my feelings & thoughts. I was actually being called to Love The Divine Trinity even more. You called that being called to a Deeper Faith. Thank you. This video was very helpful.
Thank you for this wonderful podcast. Please pray for me as I struggle to resist evils in my prayer. God bless you all.
This is one of the best discussions and explanations of contemplative prayer I have ever heard. May God bless you both! Thank you!
Oh my goodness…! This Podcast was recommended to me by a friend priest and is such answer to prayer. I had not heard about your channel before. This past week in Adoration I came in with my scripture reading, my Rosary and ready to meditate but as I sat there I felt like just quietly seating there and say nothing. It felt like a breath of fresh air to just be present looking at the Lord and letting go. Of course my heart felt full of consolation. It happened 3 times this week. Even in the afternoon where it can be easy to feel so relax I could fall asleep. I did not, it was just stillness, thank so much! I’m eager to hear more of your Podcast and get to know you all! God bless you!
I discovered the book "Divine Intimacy" and the Carmelites three years ago (at the end of 2020). I'm on my fourth read through. I've been waiting for this episode. Thank you for your wonderful explanation of contemplation!
Excellent! Clear! True to experience! Not what we do or give but what is done and given to us. Encounter with the One who first encounters us. Thanks. Blessings for this good work. Prayer for all of you and the prayers of the world.👍🙏🕊
For me, the most effective form of prayer begins with an open heart. The heart open to give if ourself honestly and intimately to God and to be open to receive Gods graces. 🙏
very helpful and practical explanations of a book which I found difficult to understand . thanks be to God for this video ministry 🙏
I am a Carmelite as well and vey grateful to you, dear Fathers.
This is a beautiful conversation to be a part of thank you Fathers. Please pray for my continued conversion and for the conversion of my husband.
Learning from these godly young men gives me hope in the younger generation when so many seem to be walking away from any form of faith.
So beautiful, so helpful. Thank you 🙏🏻 May God bless you & continue to inspire you to do many more lessons! You have a wonderful way of explaining very deep concepts.
Thank you, Brothers! Your podcasts are so very helpful as we climb higher and search deeper. Peace🕊️
Oh you answer so many of my questions! Thank you so much. I too love this podcast.
I learn so much from your podcasts. Thank you so much.
With prayer we must just start and allow the process especially when praying the little office of the b.v.m or rosary to allow the hole scriptures to become intune with God so our hearts can be in communion.
Wow! Tulips are awesome! This is an awesome analogy. I love all your episodes, and I'm REALLY loving this one. Thank you, Friars.
very good content! following from Brazil. hug to the friar Paris
Listened last night and now I get to see your beautiful faces! 💞🙏🏻🌹
I absolutely appreciate these talks.
Very true. You Just want to stay there with God forever. It’s literally heaven. I remember asking Him can I stay here with you? Of course He says, open your eyes hahah. Just when you can live there He sends you out again. Until next time.
Saying I’ll be waiting my darling.
It’s such a gift. You can just rest there. It may be exciting and you’ll want to talk to everyone about it in the beginning but after years and years you just keep it to yourself. It’s you and God and loving each other. Smiling like a fool in love to anyone who sees you. But nothing matters except smiling to Him in His forever. In his laughter. My Love I’m so happy to see and be with.
To me God opened my heart after practicing just giving love in my mind to everyone I meet. Just the constant love giving was His opening to come in. To teach me because He’s my only teacher. So patient and sweet. My only Love of my life. It’s like my secret.
That’s why I gravitate toward anyone speaking of contemplation. It’s so fun to know there’s others out there experiencing the same. Brothers and sisters in faith and love.
Wish I could hug you all.
Thank you for your conversation.
Very Helpful🌷
Pray like a tulip🙏
True. The tulip, what a very beautiful metaphor. You two make it so easy to understand a very complicated subject. I'm also a secular (OCDS) and find this discussions so helpful. Thanks and God bless you.
Great explanation and answers most of my concerns when I was moving away from the repetitive prayer and being drawn into a more contemplative one. Thank you for the clarifications. May God bless you both !
Excellent podcast. We learned this in the School of Mary of Jean Khoury
Thank you!
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Does our Lord call us into silent contemplation during Liturgy of the Hours like during the Rosary or is it an exception, and why? (As a laity)
You look like biological brothers as well as spiritual ones
It's just the haircut
I meet a beautiful girl (light of God comes on)
She goes home after the party (The light goes out. I am called away from my old life to search for her, the one I love and I thirst for her- The Song of Songs)
I find her and get to know her through conversation. I look at her one day and I know that to know her and to be known by her is to love her and be loved by her. (mental prayer)
We embrace. Time stops. We don’t speak. There is no need. I feel her presence but more than this I feel the gift she is giving me which is the gift of herself, of who she is. And she is giving herself to me. I know I have done nothing to deserve this most precious gift of the other’s life. I know I have done nothing to deserve to be here. I just don’t. I am aware she is giving me the gift of her whole life; her joys and her sorrows. And I know I will love her whole life, all of who she is and I will love all of who she is with all of my own life including all my time; all the days of my life. My soul is lifted up into clean clear twilight air and I drink from the source of all human love; our eternal Abba.
Then the glimpse ends and I hear the clock ticking again and I am back on world time, the moment withdrawn. But I remain strong. An unknown peace lives within me because I know that who I am is eternally loved. I cannot give this peace to anyone because it is not mine to give. I can simple receive and be grateful. (contemplative prayer)
Personal experience