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Pavel
Inquirer
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 Posted - 02/09/2010 : 07:18:36 AM
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Here's an interesting article concerning what St. Teresa of Avila had to say about spiritual discernment specifically with respect to locutions:
St. Teresa on Discernment |
Paul
"Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes."
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Rebecca
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 02/09/2010 : 08:44:58 AM
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Rebecca
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ClareFrancis
Squire
USA
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Posted - 02/09/2010 : 8:11:10 PM
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Thank you, Paul,
This is a fantastic piece! I'm a little confused about this, though:
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"If it is something invented by the understanding, subtle as the invention may be, he realizes that it is the understanding which is making up a speech or as if he were listening to what someone else was saying to him," wrote this saint.
"The understanding will realize that it is not listening, but being active; and the words it is inventing are fantastic and indistinct and have not the clarity of true locutions."
Does this mean that if we're beginning to understand something, such as a teaching, then our minds will try to put to words what we are beginning to understand? The words our mind formed are mistaken for a locution?
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Clare
Do not be ashamed to confess your sins,
and do not try to stop the current of a river.~Sirach 4:26
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Pavel
Inquirer
USA
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Posted - 02/11/2010 : 08:50:56 AM
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| I think that is what she means. Perhaps, somebody can enlighten us. |
Paul
"Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes."
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Bro. Ignatius Mary
Director SPCDC
USA
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Posted - 02/11/2010 : 10:11:47 AM
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Folks:
What St. Teresa is talking about is that we can have an inspiration pop into our head and mistake it for a locution when it was really just an invention of our mind.
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God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary, OLSM+
Servant of the Servants of the Cross of Christ
 
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