A Pivotal Step in the Spiritual Life

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

“I want to pray but I’m not sure how.” This is a challenge many people face when it comes to the spiritual life. How do you start? Using examples from The Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila, Dr. Edward Sri explains how to progress in the spiritual life.

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If we don’t have daily meditation, we cannot progress in our spiritual lives.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life.
0:14.5	If you go to Avila, Spain, and you visit the convent where the great Saint Teresa of
0:18.3	Avila resided, you can't help but notice that the entire courtyard there is mysteriously
0:24.0	structured around seven concentric circles, seven circles on the stone pavement each marked
0:32.2	by a Roman numeral.
0:34.1	The outermost circle is marked by Roman numeral number one, and then you go to the second
0:38.8	circle, and you see Roman numeral number two, and it keeps going all the way until you
0:42.8	get to the middle of the courtyard, the innermost circle, which is marked by a cross that
0:47.8	stands there, as well as the Roman numeral seven.
0:52.4	What is the significance of these seven circles marked by seven Roman numeral as well?
0:57.5	It's a beautiful architectural representation of one of her most famous spiritual writings
1:02.8	called the interior castle.
1:05.0	Have you ever heard of the interior castle?
1:08.0	Teresa uses this as an analogy, she says, the soul is like a great castle, and the great
1:13.2	king dwells in the innermost chamber of this castle.
1:17.0	The king dwells within us.
1:19.2	That king is Jesus.
1:20.7	It is the Lord.
1:21.7	He is dwelling within us.
1:23.4	What we want to do is go deeper and deeper into our own souls to encounter him there.
1:28.4	We want to go deeper in prayer, deeper in surrender, and I love this image.
1:34.2	To meet God in the center where we will be transformed, the closer we get to the center,
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