Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

So we've been reflecting on the first three mansions of the interior castles according to Theresa of

Avala. But we can't quit there. We need to know about the rest of them.

Once the Dark Night of sense is past, the path of contemplation, the direct experience of God,

otherwise known as mysticism or mystical theology really begins.

This is the place of supernatural favors in prayer.

Sometimes they're very plain and simple and private.

Sometimes they're extreme and dramatic and public,

like in the cases of Padre Pio. But they are all simply God's way of drawing the soul closer to himself.

Many people don't reach these spiritual heights, these further mansions,

mostly because they haven't prepared themselves by the commitment to daily

mental prayer and a resolution and removing their disordered attachments and

distractions but the testimonies their disordered attachments and distractions.

But the testimonies of the great Saints give us an insight into the profound and

surprising world the soul enters when it begins to experience God directly.

Our Father who art in heaven, hall it would be be your name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us

from evil, Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women, blessed is a fruit of thy womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God.

pray for a sinners now and in the hour of our death, Amen.

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