Lecture Feb 17

Devotional Practice

Spiritual life
Christ as center
External and inner dimension

Prayer
Basic types
vocal prayer
meditation, methodical prayer, prayer of reflection, meditative reading
affective prayer
prayer of simplicity

Stations of the Cross
Station I: Jesus Is Condemned to Death
Station II: Jesus Carries His Cross
Station III: Jesus Falls the First Time
Station IV: Jesus Meets His Blessed Mother
Station V: Simon the Cyrenean Help Jesus to Carry His Cross
Station VI: Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus
Station VII: Jesus Falls the Second Time
Station VIII: Jesus Consoles the Women of Jerusalem
Station IX: Jesus Falls the Third Time
Station X: Jesus Is Stripped of His Garments
Station XI: Jesus Is Nailed to the Cross
Station XII: Jesus Dies on the Cross
Station XIII: Jesus Is Taken Down from the Cross
Station XIV: Jesus Is Laid in the Sepulchre

Lectio Divina
Desert Fathers
The Process
Devotio moderna (Spiritual Reading)
Imitation of Christ, Thomas A. Kempis

The Interior Life
Cistercians
Council of Trent 1563
Spiritual Exercises
Ignatius of Loyola
Dark Night of the Soul
John of the Cross
The Interior Castle
Teresa of Avila
The Cloud of Unknowing

Contemplation (Being with God)
Degrees
Prayer of the Quiet
Prayer of union
Ecstatic union
Transforming union
Grace
Quietism
Madame Guyon

Thomas Merton

New Seeds of Contemplation

Centering Prayer