St. John of the Cross: Session 3

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This is the third 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. Resources: Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more about Jim, visit jamesfinley.org  The transcript to this podcast can be found 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 to learn more
0:05.0	visit caac.org.
0:08.0	Greetings. I'm Jim Finley. Welcome to Turning to the Mystics.
0:15.0	Greetings, everyone. Welcome to our time here together, turning for guidance to the
0:30.0	Christian Mystics and John of the Cross. We're in the midst of exploring his teachings of
0:40.0	our journey to perfect union with God in a passage through a dark night. And we left off
0:46.0	last time introducing the Ascent of Mount Carmel on how this, what attitudes we can foster
0:54.0	to cooperate with this dark night that brings us to the steep union with God. And we're,
1:02.0	in this session, we're going to be reflecting on chapter 13 of the Ascent of Mount Carmel,
1:07.0	I'm a book one. And in this session, I've asked Kirsten to join me. And so as I go
1:15.0	through the chapter, I'll pause at each section so that she can ask any questions that comes to her.
1:22.0	It's kind of representative of the kind of questions that might come to you. And I'm doing this because
1:28.0	this chapter is kind of very poetic and kind of intuitively dense. And therefore it can be
1:39.0	discouraging. How do I get it this? How do I get this? But once we get inside what he's saying,
1:45.0	it's the kind of thing you can return to over and over again as a kind of a grounding place.
1:50.0	So that's the nature of this session. And Kirsten and I will hopefully be helping you
1:58.0	to gain access to the graces that are in this chapter. So I'll begin with chapter 13,
2:05.0	article one, chapter 13. You said some consoles are in order that the individual may both know
2:14.0	the way of entering the night and be able to do so. And he goes on to say that this night,
2:24.0	which is this purifying process in which we're brought into the light of God,
2:30.0	has an active aspect and a passive aspect. The passive aspect is what makes it essentially mystical
2:37.0	and that it comes from God. And we started to look at that when we started with the three signs
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