Lectio Divina Explained: A Monk’s Guide to Hearing God Through Scripture | Fr Michael Casey OCSO
Mental Prayer and Reasons People Don’t Advance
Winning at Prayer and Holiness – Fr. Ripperger
PRAYER IS THE BEGINNING OF HEAVEN: HOW TO PRAY BETTER
BISHOP BARRON: THE LORD’S PRAYER
CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYERS – Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi: “Silence is the medium through which God always speaks.”
The Catholic Reader: St. Teresa’s Nine Grades of Prayer
http://thecatholicreader.blogspot.com/2013/06/st-teresas-nine-grades-of-prayer.html
St Teresa of Avila’s Nine Grades of Prayer
Modos en la oración teresiana – Carmelitas Descalzas de Cádiz
St. Teresa’s Teaching on the Grades of Prayer
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=7725
Saint Teresa of Avila | A Life of Mystical Experience | Carmelite Saint
The Path of Prayer by Saint Theophan the Recluse
SAINT TERESA’S 7 STAGES OF SPIRITUAL GROWTH
Saint Teresa’s 7 Mansions
THE THREE WAYS OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE – SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS
Stages-of-Spiritual-Journey-by-St-John-of-Cross.pdf
VIRGEN MARY TELLS HER NEVER TO GIVE UP PRAYER AND TO SEEK COUNSEL FROM PRIESTS
Since When Is It Vain to Pray the Rosary? When Jesus condemned praying “vain repetitions,” was he condemning all repetitious prayer? No. Nope. Definitely, absolutely not.
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/do-catholics-pray-vain-repetitions
ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: THE TERRIBLE HABIT TO PRAY THE ROSARY QUICKLY AND NOT FROM THE HEART
MUST SEE: When the Guardian Angel was absorbed in prayer and in contemplating God in the train
Can the Laity do Binding Prayers?
Pray with Me: Healing From Trauma and Abuse
What to Know About Catholic Deliverance and Exorcism
IMPRECATORY vs DEPRECATORY PRAYERS OF DELIVERANCE
In some Protestant books on deliverance, one is encouraged to speak directly to, and command, the demons. This is imprecatory prayer, a direct command. It is critical to understand that imprecatory prayer directly commands a demon, which is a tacit acceptance to a personal battle with that demon, while deprecatory prayer asks God to act against the demon. The Catholic Church has understood that the full authority to command demons was given to the Twelve Apostles, therefore a priest needs Apostolic authority given to him by a bishop before he engages in a battle with a demon. Of course a bishop, cardinal, or pope can do an exorcism at any time.
ABSOLUTE MUST SEE: DEMON TELLS EXORCIST TO SAY THE FATHER PRAYER FROM THE HEART!!!!!
Conference on Prayer ~ Fr. Ripperger
PRAYER PRESCRIPTION/PROTOCOL TABLE
Winning at Prayer and Holiness – Fr. Ripperger
The Jesus Prayer
The most normal form of unceasing prayer in the Orthodox tradition is the Jesus Prayer. The Jesus Prayer is the form of invocation used by those practicing mental prayer, also called the “prayer of the heart.” The words of the prayer most usually said are “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.” The choice of this particular verse has a theological and spiritual meaning.
HOW TO BLESS YOUR FOOD – Minute 6:45
“Whenever I bring groceries into the house I would just say : “In the name of Jesus I bind all spirits of death and disease off of all this food in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.” And then I would bless all the food before I unpacked it and then I like it was good but then as you individually eat things one by one you do do that.
PRAYERS BEFORE BED – Minute 11:05
Padre Pio’s prayer – Minute 53′
My past oh Lord to thy mercy
My present to thy love
My future to thy providence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ru8yNkP1AU
PRAYER FOR OUR COUNTRY
Contemplative unceasing prayer
Alzar o no las manos durante el Pade Nuestro… Raise your hands during the Lord’s Prayer?
Jesus, Take Care of It.” Don Dolindo’s Prayer of Abandonment
Mind’s eye, prayers and imagination
Surrender Novena (All 9 Days) – Let Jesus Take Care of Everything
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE NIGHTS OF THE SOUL
“The divinization of one’s passivities.”
This is a line from one of the great spiritual works of the twentieth century, The Divine Milieu by the French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In that seminal text, Teilhard famously distinguished between the divinization of one’s activities and the divinization of one’s passivities. The former is a noble spiritual move, consisting in the handing over of one’s achievements and accomplishments to the purposes of God. A convinced Jesuit, Teilhard desired to devote all that he did (and he did a lot) ad majorem Dei gloriam (to the greater glory of God). But this attitude, Teilhard felt, came nowhere near the spiritual power of divinizing one’s passivities. By this he meant the handing over of one’s suffering to God, the surrendering to the Lord of those things that are done to us, those things over which we have no control. We become sick; a loved one dies suddenly; we lose a job; a much-desired position goes to someone else; we are unfairly criticized; we find ourselves, unexpectedly, in the valley of the shadow of death. These experiences lead some people to despair, but the spiritually alert person should see them as a particularly powerful way to come to union with God. A Christian would readily speak here of participating in the cross of Christ. Indeed how strange that the central icon of the Christian faith is not of some great achievement or activity, but rather of something rather horrible being done to a person. The point is that suffering, offered to God, allows the Lord to work his purpose out with unsurpassed power.
In some ways, Teilhard’s distinction is an echo of St. John of the Cross’s distinction between the “active” and “passive” nights of the soul. For the great Spanish master, the dark night has nothing to do with psychological depression, but rather with a pruning away of attachments that keep one from complete union with God. This pruning can take a conscious and intentional form (the active night) or it can be something endured. In a word, we can rid ourselves of attachments—or God can do it for us. The latter, St. John thinks, is far more powerful and cleansing than the former.
When we experience interior aridity, darkness, desolation, what to do? Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi explains
How Can I Improve My Prayer? (Aquinas 101)
MUST WATCH – How God granted specific prayers of exorcist –
See Minute 1h07mn about curse of gout
See Minute 2h19mn about God’s punishment
See Minute 4h06mn about liberating freemason buildings