The Goal of the Spiritual Life, Part VII: Third and Fourth Mansions: The Beginnings of Contemplation – A Talk by Fr. Ermatinger
Third and Fourth Mansions: The Beginnings of Contemplation Part VII of a Lecture Series Given by Fr. Ermatinger Young Nun at Prayer, Sergei Gribkov 1852 Outline of Talk Last Time Recap: 0:00-0:34 This Time: 0:34-2:50 Foundations Prior to (Infused) Contemplation: 0:34-0:56 Contemplation: 0:56-2:03 The Essential Mystical Grace: If the Essential Is Missing, the Secondary Are Dismissed: 1:48-2:03 Normally Years of Cooperation with Grace Prior to Contemplation: 2:03-2:50 Next Time: Active Purification of the Spirit: 2:32-2:50 [...]
Passion Sunday (5th Sunday in Lent) — Homily By Fr. Ermatinger
Pinned Post Translation of the Epistle to the Hebrews Christ High Priest and Victim Icon Brethren: Christ being come, a High Priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, neither by the blood of goats or of calves, but by His own blood, entered once into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the [...]