Dialogue 3: The Pilgrim Learns to Pray

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This is the third dialogue session that focuses on the 19th-century mystical text, The Way of a Pilgrim, which covers sections of the first chapter. Resources: Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more about James Finley, visit his faculty profile at the Center for Action and Contemplation here. The transcript for this episode can be found here. The book we will be using this season can be found here. Connect with us: Have a question or personal story of pilgrimage that you'd like to share with Jim and Kirsten about this season? Email us: [email protected] Send us a voicemail here: http://www.cac.org/voicemail We'll be accepting questions for Listener Questions and Stories of Pilgrimage until June 6th, 2024. This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at https://cac.org/support-cac/podcasts/ Thank you!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
0:04.4	To learn more, visit cacac.org.
0:08.4	Greetings.
0:09.7	I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.3	And I'm Kristen Oates. Welcome to turning to the Mystics.
0:17.0	Welcome, everyone. Welcome everyone to season 9 of turning to the Mystics where we've been turning to
0:29.2	the way of a pilgrim by an anonymous author.
0:33.6	And I'm grateful to be here with Jim,
0:35.6	and we're going to dialogue about Jim's third talk.
0:38.8	Welcome, Jim.
0:40.2	Yes, thank you.
0:41.4	Yeah, gotta be together again. It's nice, good.
0:44.0	So we're following the journey of this pilgrim and it's been wonderful
0:50.0	to follow along with your talks and in this latest one the pilgrim finally gets a little
0:58.6	bit of what he's been looking for on the how to pray without ceasing.
1:05.0	And so just a little recap, our pilgrim was touched in church
1:10.0	or quickened in church when he heard the verse pray without ceasing and he's been on a quest to discover how to do it.
1:19.3	And he's visited preachers and an abbot and someone known for being a holy man and someone who
1:28.0	praise and then he kind of stumbles across the starette who's going to, who's become his teacher now and has
1:38.5	some ideas for him about how to pray in this way.
1:44.5	And so that's where we're at so far.
1:47.3	And Jim, one thing you've made clear in this session
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