Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction » Meditation http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog Seek Him - Find Him - Follow Him Tue, 22 May 2012 16:10:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 What is “Lectio Divina” and will it help my prayer life? – A Guide to Lectio Divina http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/04/21/what-is-lectio-divina-and-will-it-help-my-prayer-life-a-guide-to-lectio-divina http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/04/21/what-is-lectio-divina-and-will-it-help-my-prayer-life-a-guide-to-lectio-divina#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2012 06:01:42 +0000 Dan Burke http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/?p=4044 Q: Dear Dan, can you help me understand Lectio Divina and whether or not I should use it to help me improve my prayer life? I am struggling right now and feel like I need a change but I don’t … [visit site to read more]]]>

Q: Dear Dan, can you help me understand Lectio Divina and whether or not I should use it to help me improve my prayer life? I am struggling right now and feel like I need a change but I don’t … [visit site to read more]

]]> http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/04/21/what-is-lectio-divina-and-will-it-help-my-prayer-life-a-guide-to-lectio-divina/feed 24 Catechism – Meditation – 2708 http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/03/29/catechism-meditation-2708 http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/03/29/catechism-meditation-2708#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:00:11 +0000 Dan Burke http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/?p=8230 Meditation engages thought, imagination, emotion, and desire. This mobilization of faculties is necessary in order to deepen our convictions of faith, prompt the conversion of our heart, … [visit site to read more]]]>

Meditation engages thought, imagination, emotion, and desire. This mobilization of faculties is necessary in order to deepen our convictions of faith, prompt the conversion of our heart, … [visit site to read more]

]]> http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/03/29/catechism-meditation-2708/feed 9 How can we mature through the first few rooms of the Interior Castle? http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/03/27/how-can-we-mature-through-the-first-few-rooms-of-the-interior-castle http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/03/27/how-can-we-mature-through-the-first-few-rooms-of-the-interior-castle#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:00:10 +0000 Sister Carmen Laudis OCD http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/?p=8355 Q: Dear Sister Carmen, in your last post you provided a really helpful summary of the first]]>

Q: Dear Sister Carmen, in your last post you provided a really helpful summary of the first visit site to read more]

]]> http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/03/27/how-can-we-mature-through-the-first-few-rooms-of-the-interior-castle/feed 7 Catechism – Meditation – 2707 http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/03/22/catechism-meditation-2707 http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/03/22/catechism-meditation-2707#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:00:28 +0000 Dan Burke http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/?p=8225 There are as many and varied methods of meditation as there are spiritual masters. Christians owe it to themselves to develop the desire to meditate regularly, lest they come to resemble … [visit site to read more]]]>

There are as many and varied methods of meditation as there are spiritual masters. Christians owe it to themselves to develop the desire to meditate regularly, lest they come to resemble … [visit site to read more]

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To meditate on what we read helps us to make it our own by confronting it with ourselves. Here, another book is opened: the book of life. We pass from thoughts to reality. To the extent … [visit site to read more]

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Meditation is above all a quest. The mind seeks to understand the why and how of the Christian life, in order to adhere and respond to what the Lord is asking. The … [visit site to read more]

]]> http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/03/08/catechism-meditation-2705/feed 13 Meditation: Mastering the Fundamentals – A Webinar with Fr. John Bartunek http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/02/29/meditation-mastering-the-fundamentals-a-webinar-with-fr-john-bartunek http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/02/29/meditation-mastering-the-fundamentals-a-webinar-with-fr-john-bartunek#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:00:24 +0000 Dan Burke http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/?p=8195 Dear Friends – I am pleased to announce that Fr. John Bartunek, author of The Better Part, will provide us]]>

Dear Friends – I am pleased to announce that Fr. John Bartunek, author of The Better Part, will provide us visit site to read more]

]]> http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/02/29/meditation-mastering-the-fundamentals-a-webinar-with-fr-john-bartunek/feed 13 How to give delight to the devil… http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/02/09/how-to-give-delight-to-the-devil http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/02/09/how-to-give-delight-to-the-devil#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:46:22 +0000 Dan Burke http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/?p=7809 “Let us remember that the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of meditation, in order to make us abandon it. Let him, then, who omits mental prayer on account of distractions be persuaded … [visit site to read more]]]>

“Let us remember that the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of meditation, in order to make us abandon it. Let him, then, who omits mental prayer on account of distractions be persuaded … [visit site to read more]

]]> http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/02/09/how-to-give-delight-to-the-devil/feed 7 Struggling with suffering… Part II of II http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/01/16/struggling-with-suffering-part-ii-of-ii http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/2012/01/16/struggling-with-suffering-part-ii-of-ii#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:00:43 +0000 Father John Bartunek http://rcspiritualdirection.com/blog/?p=7618 Q: Dear Father John, I really want to think of God as good but lately I have been struggling]]>

Q: Dear Father John, I really want to think of God as good but lately I have been struggling visit site to read more]

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Q: Dear Father John, I really want to think of God as good but lately I have been struggling with all the suffering I see around me and in my own life. visit site to read more]

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