Dialogue 5: The Realm of the Heart

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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This is the fifth 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 21st, 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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0:49.4	Greetings. I'm Jim Finley and I'm Kirsten Oates. Welcome to turning to the mysteries.
0:57.0	Welcome to turning to the mystics where we're turning to
1:10.0	an anonymous author who wrote The Way of a Pilgrim.
1:14.0	And I'm here with Jim to discuss his fifth talk
1:18.0	on the Way of a Pilgrim.
1:19.4	Welcome, Jim.
1:20.9	Yes, because, yeah, good to be back together again.
1:24.0	I thought what might be helpful as an opening
1:28.0	is to read through all the instructions that have been given so far about the prayer,
1:34.8	they're kind of interwoven throughout the story, but I thought I'd bring them together and just
1:39.3	read them one after the other, and then I'll ask you some questions about them Jim if that's
1:44.5	okay? Yeah that would be great. Okay great so here we go The continuous interior prayer of Jesus is a constant
1:57.2	uninterrupted calling upon the divine name of Jesus with the lips, in the spirit, in the heart, while forming a mental
2:07.5	picture of his constant presence and imploring his grace during every occupation at all times in all places, even during sleep.
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