Respond and Rest

Respond: Talk to God about what struck you. This is conversation, not recitation. "Lord, when you say 'my soul thirsts for you,' I realise I haven't been thirsty..." Rest: THIS IS THE STEP MOST PEOPLE MISS. When God moves on your soul — when you feel peace, warmth, a sense of presence — STOP TALKING. Drop the method. Simply be with Him. "If you don't learn to rest when He moves, you'll never make it over that bridge to contemplation." (Ep 492, 560)

Catechism sources (PD) teaches:

" Right Rev. John J. Hennessy, D.D. Bishop of Wichita: "From what I have seen of your book I am delighted with the method which you have adopted for explanation. It makes the Catechism easy and interesting to both teacher and pupil.

(Source: baltimore_catechism.txt)

St. Thomas Aquinas teaches:

Now he that sows grieves because he sows for others, and he only that reaps rejoices. But in the Dew state, the sower and reaper share the same wages. AUG. The Apostles and Prophets had different labors, corresponding to the difference of times; but both will attain to like joy, and receive.

(Source: catena_aurea_john.txt)

Doctrinal Foundation

T4.G.010 (Sententia communis (common teaching)): Prayer is a necessary means of salvation for adults. God grants the grace of perseverance to those who pray for it perseveringly. Without prayer, the necessary graces for salvation will not ordinarily be received.

• Scripture: Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you.

• Fathers: He who prays well, lives well. He who lives well, dies well. He who dies well, all is well.

From the Sources

St. Thomas Aquinas (catena_aurea_john.txt):

Now he that sows grieves because he sows for others, and he only that reaps rejoices. But in the Dew state, the sower and reaper share the same wages. AUG. The Apostles and Prophets had different labors, corresponding to the difference of times; but both will attain to like joy, and receive together their wages, even eternal life.

St. Thomas Aquinas (catena_aurea_john.txt):

Because the disciples were to be the teachers of the world, and therefore it was most important that the truth should be impressed upon them. Wherefore I admire not only the multitude of the loaves which were made, but the definite quantity of the fragments; neither more nor less than twelve baskets full, and corresponding to the number of the twelve Apostles. THEOPHYL. We learn too from this miracle, not to be pusillanimous in the greatest straits of poverty.

St. Teresa of Avila (book_of_foundations.txt):

They had been so ingrained in the minds and customs of the times that the introduction of the Reform decreed by the Council taxed the ingenuity of the General to the utmost. His correspondence, which is preserved, and the reports of his canonical visitations give a lively picture of the state of things and the difficulties he encountered in many provinces.

St. Teresa of Avila (book_of_foundations.txt):

Joseph. Not less than six nuns, spiritual daughters of S. Teresa bore it, of whom four figure in her correspondence ; even Don Manuel de Serrano y Sanz in his monumental work, Apuntes para una biblioteca de Escritoras espanolas desde el ano 1401 al 1833 (2 vols. Madrid, 1905), is guilty of a confusion between Mary of S.

Additional Sources

St. John of the Cross (ascent_of_mount_carmel.txt):

PASSING THROUGH IT IN ORDER TO ATTAIN TO THE DIVINE UNION: AND SPECIALLY THE DARK NIGHT OF . SENSE AND DESIRE, WITH THE EVILS WHICH THESK INFLICT ON THE SOUL.

CHAPTER I.

Two kinds of this night, corresponding with the division of the soul into higher and lower.

STANZA I.

In a dark night,

With anxious love inflamed, O, happy lot!

Forth unobserved I went, My house being now at rest.

HIS stanza describes the happy state of the soul at its

St. John of the Cross (ascent_of_mount_carmel.txt):

As the faculty of vision is nourished by light and fed by visible objects, and ceases to be so fed when the light is withdrawn, so the soul by means of the desire feeds on those things which, corresponding with its powers, give it pleasure ; but when the desire is mortified, it derives no more pleasure from them, and thus, so far as the desire is concerned, the soul abides in darkness, without occupation.

St. Francis de Sales (03_catholic_controversy.txt):

The Saint neither published it nor named it.

St. Francis de Sales (03_catholic_controversy.txt):

And yet behold him at last a heretic, excommunicate outside the Ark, perishing in the deluge of his own conceit ! All this corresponds with the holy word of Our Lord (Matt, xxiii.

St. Ignatius of Loyola (autobiography_oconor_1900.txt):

We would like to know whether or not we have been guilty of any heresy?" "None," replied Figueroa, "else you would have been led to the stake." "And they would likewise have led you to the stake," responded Ignatius, "had you been convicted of heresy." The dress was changed according to the wish of Figueroa, who also desired that the pilgrim should not go around barefooted for at least fifteen or twenty days.

St. Ignatius of Loyola (autobiography_oconor_1900.txt):

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Autobiography of St. Ignatius This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org.

Catechism sources (PD) (baltimore_catechism.txt):

" Right Rev. John J. Hennessy, D.D. Bishop of Wichita: "From what I have seen of your book I am delighted with the method which you have adopted for explanation. It makes the Catechism easy and interesting to both teacher and pupil. I shall heartily recommend your book to our clergy for introduction into our schools." Right Rev. A. Junger, D.D., Bishop of Nesqually: "I am sure your work will not fail to obtain its object.

Catechism sources (PD) (baltimore_catechism.txt):

They do not or cannot explain what they are teaching, and the children have no interest in the study. The Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism is intended for their use.