Teresa of Avila: Session 1

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This is the first session that focuses on the mystic, Teresa of Avila. In the tenor of the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, James Finley begins with a passage from Teresa's The Interior Castle, and reflects on the qualitative essence of the spirit of this text, and finishes with a meditative practice. Resources: Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more about Jim, visit jamesfinley.org  For the transcript to this podcast, you can find it here. The book being used for this season can be found here. Check out our online course on the Interior Castle, details are here. Connect with us: We also produce other podcasts you might enjoy. To learn more about them and our other offerings, visit cac.org 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 cac.org/podcastsupport 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 cac.org.
0:08.4	Greetings, I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.4	Welcome to Turning to the Mystics.
0:15.0	Geeh,
0:17.0	Geeh, Greetings everyone, everyone, and welcome to our time here together.
0:30.0	Returning to the Christian mystic St. Treas of Avalon to help us to deepen our
0:37.1	experience of and response to God's presence in our lives. In the previous session, Kirsten, I engaged in kind of a dialogue and the context of which
0:50.4	I introduced Teresa Vla, a brief sense of her life, and then this book, The Interior
1:00.0	Castle, which we'll be going through here.
1:03.0	One of the great classics and Christian mystical literature.
1:07.0	So in this session, I want to go over the same text I went to previously, that initial session, but looking at it in a more
1:19.5	intimate way.
1:21.5	So to read the passage, so this is the interior castle, Saint-Tries of
1:27.3	Avalon chapter one. First paragraph. The beginning of the second paragraph.
1:33.0	In the beginning of the second paragraph,
1:37.0	while I was beeeching our Lord today that he would speak through me, since I could find nothing
1:45.8	to say, and had no idea of how to begin to carry out the obligation laid upon me by obedience. A thought occurred to me, which I will now
1:56.4	sit down in order to have some foundation on which to build. I began to think of the soul as if it were a castle made of a
2:05.4	single diamond or a very clear crystal in which there are many rooms, just as in
2:11.5	heaven there are many mansions. Now if we think carefully over this
2:16.2	sisters, the soul of the righteous man is nothing but a paradise in which as God
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