008: Finding God Through Meditation with Dan Burke

The Art of Catholic with Matthew Leonard

Matthew Leonard

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 831 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Lots of saints make strong statements about prayer. St. Alphonsus Ligouri is probably the scariest. Referencing St. Teresa of Avila, he once stated that "He who neglects mental prayer needs no devil to carry him to hell. He brings himself there with his own hands." Yikes! Lucky for you (and me), we're not talking prayer with him today. Instead, Mr. Dan Burke is the featured guest in this episode of The Art of Catholic podcast. While not a saint (yet), Dan is definitely a sage when it comes to the spiritual life and loves to quote Teresa of Avila, too. In fact, he's the founder and president of The Avila Institute, as well as the Executive Director of EWTN's National Catholic Register. He also blogs and podcasts over at SpiritualDirection.com. Dan has written a wonderful series of books under the heading of "Navigating the Spiritual Life" through Emmaus Road Publishing. And in this episode we're discussing some of the contents of one of those books titled, "Finding God Through Meditation." It's all about St. Peter Alcantara. Who is he? None other than the spiritual director for Teresa of Avila. Prepare to grow! God bless! Matthew "All who have been lost were lost because they did not pray." St. Alphonsus Liguori. Don't be lost! Grab your FREE copy of my quick guide to deeper prayer 8 Ways To Jumpstart Your Prayer Life! It's an easy step-by-step summary of the spiritual giants of the Church designed to help you rocket to God!

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0:00.0	This is the art of Catholic.
0:07.0	Rejoice always pray without seizing and give thanks in all circumstances for this is
0:21.6	the will of God and Christ Jesus for you.
0:24.8	That my friends is Saint Paul's message to us in 1 Thessalonians 5, 16 to 18, and I
0:29.6	hope and pray his message is true for you today.
0:33.5	Broadcasting from Studio No. 2 at the Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology, I'm Matthew
0:37.7	Leonard, and this is the art of Catholic.
0:41.0	The show dedicated to taking your faith, and of course mine too, to the next level.
0:46.0	And we always gotta be striving for the next level.
0:49.3	Because remember, there are no plateaus
0:51.1	in the spiritual life.
0:52.5	You're either moving forward
0:53.9	or you're sliding backwards.
0:55.6	God gives us everything we need
0:58.0	to make it through this world
0:59.0	and to come out whole on the other side.
1:01.2	And for a long time, especially before I became Catholic, my view of spirituality
1:06.6	was basically that of treading water. I didn't want to sink, but I wasn't moving forward. I wasn't
1:12.8	making progress. I did just enough to keep my head above water. And the goal really, it was to stay
1:19.1	out of serious sin until I died, you know, so I could go to heaven. But there is so much more to the spiritual life.
1:26.6	God doesn't part his amazing grace upon us
1:28.6	so we can just survive until we move into the next life.
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