The Spiritual Life, Episode 16: Mystical Contemplation

The Spiritual Life, Episode 16: Mystical Contemplation In this episode of The Spiritual Life, we start a study of the more advanced stages of mystical contemplation. Before a detailed study of the actual various grades of mystical prayer, Father Bernard covers many issues that lay the foundation of mystical prayer. The concept of contemplation itself is reviewed; the distinction between what is essential to contemplation and what is merely accidental, including the various extraordinary phenomena that often, but not necessarily, accompanies mystical prayer; mystical prayer's possible effects on the body and the binding of the faculties known by the term "ligature." Join Father Bernard Uttley, OSB in this general introduction to the study of the more advanced grades of infused mystical contemplation. "No amount of exterior work is as pleasing to God, as useful to the Church and to souls as that loving contemplation, in which the soul allows God to act as He pleases in her. It is for that He has created her. 'Mary has chosen the better part which shall not be taken away from her.'" (Fr. Gabriel Diefenbach, O.F.M.Cap., 1946) Original Air Date: May 2, 2017 Show Run Time: 42 minutes Show Guest(s): Father Bernard Uttley, O.S.B.