St. John of the Cross: Session 2

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This is the second session that focuses on the mystic, St. John of the Cross. In the tenor of the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, James Finley begins with a passage from St. John's The Ascent of Mount Carmel, and reflects on the qualitative essence of the spirit of this text, and finishes with a meditative practice. Resources: Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more about Jim, visit jamesfinley.org  For the transcript to this podcast, you can find it here. The book being used for this season can be found here. Connect with us: We also produce other podcasts you might enjoy. To learn more about them and our other offerings, visit cac.org This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at cac.org/podcastsupport Thank you!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
0:04.3	To learn more, visit caac.org.
0:07.5	Greetings. I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.3	Welcome to Turning to the Mystics.
0:23.2	Greetings, everyone.
0:25.0	Welcome to our time here together.
0:27.5	We're turning for guidance to the Christian Mystic Saint John of the Cross.
0:33.4	In his teachings that we enter into perfect union with God,
0:37.3	in a passage through a dark night.
0:40.1	We're trying to understand what this dark night is of which he speaks
0:47.5	so that we may benefit from it and of fine guidance in it
0:51.3	and our ongoing search to deepen our experience of and response to God's presence
0:57.0	in our life.
0:59.2	In the previous session in the Sentiment Carmel Book 2, chapter 13,
1:05.2	we saw how we can begin to discern and respond to the emergence of the dark night in prayer and meditation.
1:13.6	And we saw too that in that experience of the dark night in prayer,
1:20.4	that there's a passive aspect and an active aspect.
1:24.0	The passive aspect is it happens to us as the loss of gratification
1:31.6	of the sense of God's presence in our life and prayer.
1:34.9	We're not gratified in thinking of the things of God.
1:39.6	There's the loss of the felt sense of God's presence and so on.
1:45.2	And the active night is we actively cooperate with that,
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