Episode 3 Beginning to Pray:  “Heaven in Faith”  Day 2 Prayer 1 – “The Kingdom of God is Within You”

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Dr. Anthony Lilles is a Catholic husband and father of three teaching Spiritual Theology at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary. He  teaches spiritual theology and spiritual direction to transitional deacons, and the spiritual classics to the men who enter the Spirituality Year, a year of prayer in preparation for seminary formation.  He is the author of the “Beginning to Pray”  catholic blog spot.

From “Heaven in Faith: Day 2 Prayer 1” found in The Complete Works vol 1:

6. The same saint also says that “God is the center of the soul.  So when the soul with all” its “strength will know God perfectly, love and enjoy Him fully, then it will have reached the deepest center that can be attained in Him.”  Before attaining this, the soul is already “in God who is its center,” “but it is not yet in its deepest center, for it can still go further.  Since love is what unites us to God, the more intense this love is, the more deeply the soul enters into God and the more it is centered in Him.  When it “possess even one degree of love it is already in its center”; but when this love has attained its perfection, the soul will have penetrated into its deepest enter.  There it will be transformed to the point of becoming very like God.”

 

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This the text we are using to discuss “Heaven in Faith” you can find it here and order from the Carmelite Sisters

 

We would like to offer heartfelt thanks to
Miriam Gutierrez for providing for us “the voice” of Blessed Elizabeth for this series