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What Is Meditation or Mental Prayer

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That Mental Prayer Is Nothing Else than an Intimate Friendship

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A Method for Mental Prayer

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Why Do I Need Mental Prayer

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Interior Faculties

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How Do I Do Mental Prayer

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Preparation

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The Soul Begins To Talk Slowly to Our Lord

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The Conclusion

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Review

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Five Parts of Mental Prayer

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and they lifting up their eyes saw no

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one but only

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Jesus in the name of the father and of

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the son and of the Holy Ghost

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amen one day St John viani came out of

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his confessional in his little Parish in

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ARs and he noticed a simple farmer

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praying on his

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knees our Lord was exposed in the

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Blessed Sacrament and this man was

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kneeling gazing Upon Our

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Lord he had seen this man other times

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and this brought such a joy his heart

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because they were so clearly both

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working for the same goal and that was

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Union with Christ so our Saint went up

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to him and asked what do you say to him

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nothing he said he looks at me and I

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look at

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him now what is meditation or mental

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prayer what we call mental prayer or

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meditation is just a conversation with

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Christ sounds simple right well it is we

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often think that mental pray pray is

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something reserved only for religious

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and for priests and that is not for a

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father or a mother a single man or woman

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or for

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children but it's for everyone now this

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may come as a surprise to all of us but

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everyone not only can but should do some

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type of mental prayer all we need to do

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is to have the will and the desire to do

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it St Teresa of Avala tells us that

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mental prayer is nothing else than an

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intimate friendship a frequent

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heart-to-heart conversation with him by

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whom we know ourselves to be loved

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that's all now we know what friendship

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is and we know what talking with a good

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friend is when we talk to God we are

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doing mental

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prayer because we are Fallen human

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beings and easily distracted we are

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going to need a guide or some type of

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method to help us in our prayer a method

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for mental prayer provides a personal

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framework for this heart-to-heart talk

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with our Lord so every everything in

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this method that prepares us for

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meditation everything that accompanies

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it everything that follows it has one

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primary purpose and that is to stimulate

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an interior conversation with

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Christ if we remember only this point

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then we will make much progress in

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prayer so the first question in all this

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is why do I need mental prayer isn't it

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something

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optional well it's not something

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optional if we really want to be holy

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because mental prayer does two basic

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things for us number one it helps the

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soul to have a closer friendship with

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Christ and number two it prevents the

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soul from falling back into

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sin St alonsus tells us that it is

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impossible for him who neglects

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meditation to live without

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sin now we can see that mental prayer is

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not just something optional but

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something necessary for our Supernatural

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life if you want to stay stay in the

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state of sanctifying grace and all and

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we all need to know that without

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sanctifying Grace or we all know that

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without sanctifying Grace we cannot get

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into heaven or let alone live

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there now because of original sin and

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because of our personal sins we have

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thrown away or we have greatly weakened

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our friendship with Christ Our Lord came

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to reestablish this friendship with God

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between God and man and this is why he

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says to us I no longer call you servants

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but

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friends we are making contact with God

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and strengthening that friendship with

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him whenever we

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pray now the most basic and fundamental

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thing that we need to know when we pray

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is that we are in conversation with

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Christ when praying all of our interior

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faculties must be directed to this

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conversation now what do I mean by

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interior

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faculties well interior faculties are

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the operations of our soul and uh we can

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we can reference those in opposition to

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those of the Body for example I see with

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my my eyes that's the faculty of sight

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that's an operation of the body but the

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interior faculties of our human nature

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are consist of the intellect and the

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will and these are the operations of the

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Soul now the faculty of the intellect is

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mainly concerned with reason and thought

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basically the things that are in Our

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Minds The Faculty of the will is

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concerning with what we desire and what

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we intend to do when we talk about

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prayer we are talking about the will

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being occupied by the Motions of love

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directed towards

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God mental prayer involves these two

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faculties the intellect and the will but

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mainly the will in fact St Teresa says

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that prayer consists not in thinking

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much but in loving much and we all know

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that love is in the

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will okay so we know that the interior

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faculties of both the intellect and the

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will are necessary if mental prayer is

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to be fruitful and we know that the acts

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of the will are the most important so

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what exactly is the role of the

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intellect

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the intellect considers the subject

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matter for the meditation for example we

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can meditate on the passion of Our

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Lord if we're talking to God we have to

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talk about something when two friends

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talk they usually talk about things that

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interest both of them and this becomes a

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topic of conversation well mental prayer

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is no different and it's the intellect

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that provides this topic for

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conversation the intellect also brings

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with it the memory and the

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imagination and this is all the work of

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the intellect to Supply the subject

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matter for mental

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prayer what is the role of the will in

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the mental prayer the function of the

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will is to carry out this conversation

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of Christ or with Christ so that we have

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we have something to keep feeding the

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will so to speak and this comes from the

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intellect when the intellect provides us

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with an idea or the thought then it

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moves the will by moving the heart to

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speak to God in

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conversation the intellect gives the

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will an orderly plan for conversation

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and this keeps the mind from

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wandering the object of meditation is

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the conversation to show the love for

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Christ that's in the will and it's not a

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process of reasoning it's not a process

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of deduction or logical syllogism all

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that's in the

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intellect All Souls may not have

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imagination and may or not may not have

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a full imagination or may be capable of

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meditating but All Souls are capable of

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love this is why St teres insists the

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prayer consist not in thinking much but

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in loving much so how do I do mental

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prayer St Teresa of Avala gives us a

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simplified method of meditation and she

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goes through five steps she speaks about

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preparation selecting the material

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consideration conversation and

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conclusion first for the preparation

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it's difficult to start into prayer

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whenever we're entirely distracted so we

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need time to settle our minds so that

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we're not occupied with the things of

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the world and we do that by beginning

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Prayer by asking almighty God to keep us

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from distraction and to guide us in

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prayer we also do this by making

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ourselves deeply aware of the presence

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of Christ whether in the we're in the

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presence of the Blessed Sacrament or in

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the privacy of our own

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rooms the second is the selection of

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material we select a subject for the

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day's conversation or mental prayer now

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it could be some book for meditation or

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the study of a picture or a statue of

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Our Lord but it has to be something that

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we can bring our minds to and that can

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support our meditation so that we have

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something to speak to our Lord about for

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example thinking of Our Lord being

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scourged in his passion we can read this

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in the Bible and we can keep going back

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to that whenever our minds get

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distracted the third is a consideration

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and this is when we examine the material

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for the day's mental prayer we first

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read and formulate the thought or idea

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that's in the intellect but then the

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will Begins the

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consideration we ask ask ourselves the

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traditional questions who is here in

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this

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scene what is our Lord doing why is he

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doing it and how does that apply to

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me this is also part of the work of the

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intellect then we get into the

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conversation the most important part of

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the prayer and therefore most of the

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time should be spent on this the soul

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begins to talk slowly to our Lord

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telling him of his love for him and our

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desire to serve him and our willingness

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to do everything for him we we adore our

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Lord in the day's meditation and we

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express our love for him we thank him

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for past gifts and we ask him for new

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favors for the

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future we ask him for virtues for

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example if you've learned the virtue of

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meekness during the meditation then we

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ask him for this virtue during this

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conversation when the conversation

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begins to falter then we turn back to

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our considerations or turn back to the

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subject the book of meditation the

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picture of the Statue to inspire new

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thoughts thoughts to help us to continue

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in

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prayer and then finally we have the

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conclusion in this part we thank our

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lord for the grace that we've received

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during the prayer and we develop a

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resolution anything that we've willfully

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or we've learned during this meditation

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we ask God to give us the strength to do

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it and we confine ourselves to do

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it in mental prayer we'll often need to

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repeat the consideration in the

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conversation but that's good that's just

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the nature of prayer we keep going back

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and going over this so in this in mental

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prayer we have a preparation the

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selection of the material the

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consideration the conversation and the

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conclusion and that is the summary of St

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Teresa's method of mental prayer so

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let's review all mental prayer is is a

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heart-to-heart conversation with our

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Lord mental prayer does two things it

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helps the the soul become closer to God

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and it prevents the soul from falling

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back into sin the two faculties that

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lead us into meditation are the

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intellect and the will the intellect

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gives us the subject matter and the

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considerations for prayer and the will

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gives us the desire and the love to

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converse with

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God the five parts of mental prayer

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include the preparation the selection of

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the material the consideration the

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conversation and the

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conclusion all the focus of our prayer

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must be in the conversation with

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Christ prayer consists not in thinking

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much but in loving

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much for where your treasure is there

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also is your

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heart in the name of the father and of

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the

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