Download or read book Quotable Catholic Mystics and Contemplatives written by Dave Armstrong and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen classic Catholic mystics and contemplatives or works, drawn from 22 books, compiled under 215 categories, chronologically by date. Authors included are St. Bernard of Clairvaux* (1090-1153), St. Bonaventure* (c. 1217-1274), Bl. John of Ruysbroeck (c. 1293-1381), Bl. Henry Suso (1295-1366), Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361), Walter Hilton (c. 1340/45 -1396), Julian[a] of Norwich (c. 1342-c. 1416), St. Catherine of Siena* (1347-1380), "The Cloud of Unknowing" late 14th century anonymous English work, "Theologia Germanica" late 14th century anonymous German work, Thomas a Kempis (c. 1380-1471) / "The Imitation of Christ," St. Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510), St. Teresa of Avila* (1515-1582), and St. John of the Cross* (1542-1591). Introduction by the Anglo-Catholic expert on mysticism, Evelyn Underhill. The collection includes five women and five Doctors of the Church (asterisked). The different orders of the Church included are Dominican (3), Augustinian (2), Carmelite (2), Franciscan, and Cistercian.

Download or read book Western Mysticism written by Dom Cuthbert Butler and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extracts from the writings of three of Western Christianity's most revered teachers of mystical theology express what they themselves wrote and thought about their mysticism.

Download or read book Orthodoxy and Catholicism A Comparison written by Dave Armstrong and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-08-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been my strong desire for some time now to revise my book in order to emphasize ecumenism and unity proportionately a lot more than in the first (2004) edition. I'm much more interested in finding common ground. I've also learned a thing or two about Orthodoxy over the past decade. I wanted this volume to be able to read by Orthodox and also Eastern Catholics, without having seizures or going into apoplectic fits (caused by my ignorance or overly polemical or biased writing). I exaggerate, of course, but perhaps not by much! Toward that end I have enlisted a very qualified Eastern Catholic friend to contribute significant portions to the revised edition: Fr. Deacon Daniel G. Dozier. The revision remains an apologetic for Catholicism and respectful critique of Orthodoxy, but now it also includes friendly ecumenical discussion and dialogue: feedback and input from the Eastern theological perspective. The overall tone, tenor, and goal is considerably different. Unity is stressed as much as apologetics.

Download or read book Western Mysticism written by Cuthbert Butler and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mystical Contemplation Or The Principles of Mystical Theology written by E. Lamballe and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Holy Wisdom written by Augustine Baker and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On Prayer and the Contemplative Life written by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exalted to the Third Heaven written by Mark RIST and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exalted to the Third Heaven is a call-to-action for lay Catholics to respond to Christ's call to a Mystical Union of Love with Him.I want to help Catholics realize that their true vocation lies in a Contemplative Union with Christ. Their contemplative vocation does not require a retirement to a monastery but incorporating Jesus Christ into everything that they already normally do.Contemplative Union with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, will bring about an interior transformation of their lives. Living in Christ's Love will enable Catholics to live a richly fulfilled life without having to change the circumstances of the lives they are already living.Being consciously in the presence of Christ and knowing that He is actively exalting you to participation in His Divine Life will change the way that you look at your life and enrich the way you live it. Prayerfully, you will undergo a transformation of awareness from life as ordinary to life as supernatural.Imagine looking at the world the way Christ looks at the world? Imagine loving others as Christ loves others?Imagine a transformation of spiritual living and an authentic emotional engagement with the world?I felt compelled to write this book due to my own mystical experiences when I was in my teens. Jesus Christ has made Himself palpably present in my life ever since. I have never known a day that He has not whispered His Presence.Christ has graced me with the opportunity to teach, guide and speak to thousands of Catholics to facilitate their process of a deep spiritual growth in Christ. Helping others to experience an authentic emotional connection with Christ and His real love for them is at the core of my vocation.Here are are 3 Key Awakenings that I pray will begin to happen in your lives:1.That the vocation of each Catholic really is: The Contemplative Love of Christ2.That virtuous living is imperative but that salvation requires the Grace of Christ3.That if you let Christ transform your spirit,then you will transform your lifeYour life is not about being the best you can, or, being the best version of you, or, any other aphorism that you can "like and retweet" or "share" on Facebook. Your life is lived in the secret depths of your soul where Christ finds you and unites your love to His in a spiritual marriage.For twenty years I taught a course entitled, Great Theological Controversies. The students were introduced to the writings of the greatest minds the world has known over the past 2,500 years. I facilitated the process of the educational experience but it was these great men and women who really taught them.Dante Alighieri never visited the Inferno, nor the Purgatorio, nor the Paradiso. Yet, he led the reader on a spiritual expedition the likes of which have never been duplicated (including Milton). If you go to an Art Museum, you will be led on a wonderful aesthetic tour of the greatest art masterpieces ever created. The docents who explain them did not paint or sculpt these inspired works yet they guide you to a transcendent experience. Here I am introducing you to the greatest mystic saints who will guide you to your destiny: An Eternal Union of Divine Love with Christ. I am merely the facilitator.

Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by Evelyn Underhill and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little family of mystical treatises which is known to students as "the Cloud of Unknowing group," deserves more attention than it has hitherto received from English lovers of mysticism: for it represents the first expression in our own tongue of that great mystic tradition of the Christian Neoplatonists which gathered up, remade, and "salted with Christ's salt" all that was best in the spiritual wisdom of the ancient world. That wisdom made its definite entrance into the Catholic fold about A.D. 500, in the writings of the profound and nameless mystic who chose to call himself "Dionysius the Areopagite." Three hundred and fifty years later, those writings were translated into Latin by John Scotus Erigena, a scholar at the court of Charlemagne, and so became available to the ecclesiastical world of the West. Another five hundred years elapsed, during which their influence was felt, and felt strongly, by the mystics of every European country: by St. Bernard, the Victorines, St. Bonaventura, St. Thomas Aquinas. Every reader of Dante knows the part which they play in the Paradiso. Then, about the middle of the 14th century, England-at that time in the height of her great mystical period-led the way with the first translation into the vernacular of the Areopagite's work. In Dionise Hid Divinite, a version of the Mystica Theologia, this spiritual treasure house was first made accessible to those outside the professionally religious class. Surely this is a fact which all lovers of mysticism, all "spiritual patriots," should be concerned to hold in remembrance.

Download or read book Western Mysticism written by Cuthbert Butler and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.

Download or read book The Signature of Jesus written by Brennan Manning and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2004-07-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Signature of Jesus challenges the gospel of "cheap grace" and calls the church to radical discipleship. With passion and boldness, author Brennan Manning invites readers to risk living life as Jesus lived—committed to simplicity, purity of heart, and obedience to the gospel. As a radical alternative this book is offered to Christians who want to live by faith and not by mere “religion,” for those who recognize that many of the burning theological issues in the church today are neither burning nor theological; who see Christianity neither as a moral code or a belief system but as a love affair; who have not forgotten that they are followers of a crucified Christ; who know that following him means living dangerously; who want to live the gospel without compromise; who have no greater desire than to have his signature written on the pages of their lives. “Behold,” Jesus proclaims, “I stand at the door and knock.” You may have already met him at the door…but do you truly know him? Have you been transformed by His furious, passionate, unexplainable love? Join Brennan Manning, the bestselling author of The Ragamuffin Gospel, on a personal journey to experience Christ’s love and live with His passion.

Download or read book Catholic Wisdom for a Mother s Heart written by Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catholic Wisdom for a Mother’s Heart is a creative and practical guide for a wide range of domestic church situations. Catholic women can live out their familial vocation with seasoned, simple suggestions for answering Christ’s universal call to holiness. Lovely poems conclude each chapter on a note of warmth that will lift hearts beyond the kitchen and up the path toward heaven. This resource is for Catholic mothers (and grandmothers who often fill the motherly role) who are in the trenches raising their children through thick and thin amid the bombardment of the culture. They need and crave the guidance, encouragement, and affirmation that this welcoming book will offer.

Download or read book Holy Wisdom written by Augustine Baker and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by Anonymous and published by Indoeuropeanpublishing.com. This book was released on 2019-05-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evelyn Underhill (6 December 1875 - 15 June 1941) was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism. In the English-speaking world, she was one of the most widely read writers on such matters in the first half of the 20th century. No other book of its type--until the appearance in 1946 of Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy--met with success to match that of her best-known work, Mysticism, published in 1911. This book is Evelyn Underhill's translation of the medieval spiritual guidebook called The Cloud of Unknowing, written by an anonymous English monk. At the core is a mystical approach to Christian prayer, in which God is found not through rote knowledge, but through 'blind love.' It has been described as Christianity with a Zen outlook. --J.B. Hare The Cloud of Unknowing (Middle English: The Cloude of Unknowyng) is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the late Middle Ages. The underlying message of this work suggests that the way to know God is to abandon consideration of God's particular activities and attributes, and be courageous enough to surrender one's mind and ego to the realm of "unknowing", at which point one may begin to glimpse the nature of God. (wikipedia.org)

Download or read book Christian Perfection and Contemplation written by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange and published by Tan Books. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Perfection and Contemplation is an entire treatise on the operation of grace in the spiritual life that clearly and skillfully explains the great principles of the spiritual life according to St. Thomas Aquinas and other sterling Catholic Sources. In fact, the author\'s fascinating and extremely informative footnotes are themselves worth the price of the book. Impr. 470 pgs, PB

Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-05 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely considered a hallmark of Western literature and spirituality, The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous English monk's sublime expression of what separates God from humanity. Originally written in the 14th century, this beautiful contemplative resource has been embraced for hundreds of years for its simple, engaging style and spiritual truths. The Cloud of Unknowing consists of a series of letters written by a monk to his student or disciple, instructing the reader in the way of Divine union. Its theology is presented in a way that is remarkably easy to understand, as well as practical, providing advice on prayer and contemplation that anyone can use. It describes an abstract, transcendent God beyond human knowledge and human language. Drawing upon radically different traditions, it is a rich work full of intriguing contradictions that speaks to us with liveliness, warmth and humor even today.

Download or read book On Prayer and the Contemplative Life written by St Thomas Aquinas and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREFACE 9INTRODUCTION 11QUESTION LXXXI 32OF THE VIRTUE OF RELIGIONI. Does the Virtue of Religion Direct a Man To God Alone? 32 S. Augustine, sermon, cccxxxiv. 3 on Psalm lxxvi. sermon, cccxi. 14-15II. Is Religion a Virtue? 37III. Is Religion One Virtue? 38IV. Is Religion a Special Virtue Distinct From Others? 40V. Is Religion One of the Theological Virtues? 42VI. Is Religion To Be Preferred To the Other Moral Virtues? 44VII. Has Religion, Or Latria, Any External Acts? 45 S. Augustine, of Care for the Dead, V.VIII. Is Religion the Same As Sanctity? 48 Cardinal Cajetan, on the Distinction Between Sanctity and ReligionQUESTION LXXXII 54OF DEVOTIONI. Is Devotion a Special Kind of Act? 54 Cardinal Cajetan, On the Meaning of the Term "Devotion" S. Augustine, Confessions, XIII. viii. 2II. Is Devotion an Act of the Virtue of Religion? 57III. Is Contemplation, that is Meditation, the Cause of Devotion? 58 Cardinal Cajetan, On the Causes of Devotion On the Devotion of WomenIV. Is Joy an Effect of Devotion? 62 Cardinal Cajetan, On Melancholy S. Augustine, Confessions, II. xQUESTION LXXXIII 67OF PRAYERI. Is Prayer an Act of the Appetitive Powers? 69 Cardinal Cajetan, On Prayer based on FriendshipII. Is it Fitting to Pray? 72 Cardinal Cajetan, On Prayer as a True Cause S. Augustine, On the Sermon on the Mount, II. iii. 14 On the Gift of Perseverance, vii. 15III. Is Prayer an Act of the Virtue of Religion? 76 Cardinal Cajetan, On the Humility of Prayer S. Augustine, On Psalm cii. 10 Of the Gift of Perseverance, xvi. 39IV. Ought We to Pray to God Alone? 79 S. Augustine, Sermon, cxxvii. 2V. Should We in our Prayers ask for anything Definite from God? 82 S. Augustine, De Catechizandis Rudibus, xxv. 47 Confessions, X. xxix. Confessions, XI. ii. 2VI. Ought We in our Prayers to ask for Temporal Things from God? 85 S. Augustine, On Psalm xxxvii. 10 Confessions, I. xx. 2 Confessions, IX. iv. 12 S. Thomas is miraculously relieved from Toothache S. Augustine, Sermon, lxxx. 7 Sermon, cccliv. 8VII. Ought We to Pray for Others? 90VIII. Ought We to Pray for our Enemies? 92 S. Augustine, Sermon, xv., on Psalm xxv. 8IX. On the Seven Petitions of the Lord's Prayer 95 Cardinal Cajetan, On the Grouping of these Petitions S. Augustine, Confessions, VII. x. 2 Sermon, lvii., on S. Matt. vi. 7 Sermon, lvi. 9, on S. Matt. vi. Sermon, lvi. 8, on S. Matt. vi. Of the City of God, xix. 27 S. Thomas's Rhythm, Adoro Te DevoteX. Is Prayer Peculiar to Rational Creatures? 103XI. Do the Saints in Heaven Pray for Us? 105 Cardinal Cajetan, On the Saints in LimboXII. Should Prayer be Vocal? 108 Cardinal Cajetan, On the Conditions of Vocal Prayer S. Augustine, Confessions, IX. iv. 8 Confessions, X. xxxiii. 50 On Psalm cxviii., Sermon xxix. 1XIII. Must Prayer necessarily be Attentive? 113 Cardinal Cajetan, On the Varieties of Attention at Prayer S. Augustine, On Psalm lxxxv. 7 On Psalm cxlv. 1 S. Thomas, On Distractions, Com. on 1 Cor. xiv. 14XIV. Should our Prayers be Long? 119XV. Is Prayer Meritorious? 122 S. Augustine, On Psalm xxvi. Ep. cxxx. ad Probam.XVI. Do Sinners gain Anything from God by their Prayers? 126XVII. Can We rightly term "Supplications," "Prayers," "Intercessions," and "Thanksgivings," parts of Prayer? 129 Cardinal Cajetan, On the Prayer of the Consecration S. Augustine, Of Divers Questions, iv. SUPPLEMENT-QUESTION LXXII 144OF THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS WHO ARE IN HEAVENI. Are the Saints cognizant of our Prayers? 144II. Ought we to appeal to the Saints to intercede for us? 148III. Are the Saints' Prayers to God for us always heard? 151QUESTION CLXXIX 158OF THE DIVISION OF LIFE INTO THE ACTIVE AND THE CONTEMPLATIVEPlus More!