Turning to The Way of a Pilgrim

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Season 9 of Turning to the Mystics. This season we are turning toThe Way of a Pilgrim for spiritual guidance, a 19th-century account of a pilgrim's journey towards unceasing prayer through the practice of the Jesus Prayer. In this episode, James Finley and Kirsten Oates explain the significance of the anonymous author and the practice of contemplative prayer. Jim shares his personal experience with the book and the impact it had on his spiritual journey. They conclude by discussing the context of the book and the importance of pilgrimage in the search for God. 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 you'd like Jim or Kirsten to answer about this season? Email us: [email protected] Questions for this season will only be accepted until May 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 mysteries.
0:16.0	Welcome everyone.
0:20.0	Welcome everyone to season 9 of turning to the mystics. I'm here with Jim and
0:28.1	we're so excited to be launching a new season and a new year of this
0:32.4	podcast. We're so grateful to all our wonderful
0:34.8	community of listeners and Jim why don't you get us started tell us where we're
0:40.5	headed this season? Well first of all yes it is good to start a new season.
0:44.1	And just the kind of ongoing grace of this time we have together,
0:49.9	turning to the mystics.
0:51.8	And this season, it's going to be more of the same.
0:55.1	I'm going to speak from my heart,
0:57.0	drawing from the text of mystics that have deeply affected me
1:01.0	and drawing from an interpersonal poetic way that I hope will arch over and touch people, touch
1:06.1	the listeners in their own search for God.
1:09.0	But also in the secondary sense we're beginning a new phase here in the reflections.
1:14.8	And that up until now all the mystics we focused on have been mystics in my own Roman
1:20.0	Catholic tradition.
1:21.5	So I was born born, I was, grew up as Catholic and I went to
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