105: Harnessing the Power of Catholic Mysticism & Deep Prayer
The Art of Catholic with Matthew Leonard
Matthew Leonard
4.9 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Far too many Catholics are unaware of the transformative power of the Catholic mystical tradition, especially deep meditative and contemplative prayer. There is an urgent need to understand the absolute necessity of diving into authentic Catholic spirituality given to us by spiritual giants like Sts. Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Francis de Sales, and many others.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the art of Catholic. |
| 0:05.9 | Now as they were traveling along he entered a village and a woman named Martha welcomed |
| 0:19.5 | him into her home. |
| 0:21.1 | She had a sister called Mary who was seated at the Lord's feet, listening to his word. A Martha was distracted with all her preparations, and she came up to him |
| 0:29.2 | and said, Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the serving alone? |
| 0:34.2 | Then tell her to help me! The Lord answered and said to her, Martha, Martha. You are worried |
| 0:39.9 | and bothered about so many things. But only one thing is necessary. |
| 0:45.9 | For Mary has chosen the good mark, |
| 0:48.3 | which shall not be taken away from her. |
| 0:52.0 | That is Luke 1038-42. |
| 0:54.7 | I'm Matthew Leonard. |
| 0:55.7 | This is the art of Catholic podcast |
| 0:57.5 | where we dive into the truth, beauty, |
| 0:59.0 | and goodness of the Catholic faith. |
| 1:00.9 | Thanks for joining me wherever you are. |
| 1:03.7 | That passage, of of course is the famous |
| 1:05.0 | Mary and Martha passage where Jesus fells out for us in no uncertain terms that there |
| 1:08.8 | is just one thing necessary in life, namely our interior life, our spiritual life, our |
| 1:14.6 | relationship with him. And that's exactly what today's show is all about. Why and how |
| 1:20.6 | we can move more deeply into Catholic mystical life and step up our spiritual game, which we all know is necessary. |
| 1:28.5 | So what you're about to hear is a conversation that I was recently a part of with a couple of guys who are doing some great work down in Florida. |
| 1:36.7 | They are in the diocese of Venice. |
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