TAN Direction Episode 7 – The Interior Castle: Sweetness In Prayer and Spiritual Consolations

 

Episode 7 – The Interior Castle: Sweetness In Prayer and Spiritual Consolations

Moving from meditation to contemplation, St. Teresa makes the distinction between experiences through our own meditation and petitions to the Lord, or sweetness in prayer, and spiritual consolations, which arise from God. Fr. Reid explains how the latter expands our hearts.

Episode seven focuses on The 4th Mansions, Chapter 1.

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Fr. Timothy Reid, a convert to the Catholic Faith, earned his B.S. in Marketing from Indiana University, but later changed his focus to pursue the study of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America. After attaining an M.A. in Philosophy in 1996, he took a job with the Migration and Refugee Services of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Following his Theology studies at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, earning an M.A. in Theology and a Masters of Divinity, Fr. Reid was ordained in 2004. In 2007, he was made Pastor of St. Ann Catholic Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he continues to serve today. Fr. Reid is a Third Order Carmelite and serves as the Spiritual Director of the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Secular Carmelite group in Charlotte.

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