Ecstasy & Transformation: Prayer 101: 8 & 9th Step to Heaven – Oct 30 – Homily – Fr Terrance
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Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Oct 30, 2021, on Ecstatic and Transformative Prayer
Rough notes:
Ecstasy outside of oneself can not shake them out except by religious obedience, suspension of senses
Supernatural prophetic of mystical
Grace free given
Prophetic is not e=necessarly sanctifying
Mystical different, associated with contemplative prayer and is sanctifying
Supernatural or preterantural
Rapture of flight of the spirit
Does no harm body
But can be mistaken as being dead
Sometimes levitation, less circulation
More virtues practiced
Spiritual espousal
Usually not too long but exceptions, sometimes days
Very advanced form of prayer 8th Step
Counterfeits:
Fainting vs mystical
Sleepwalking, Hypnosis, Hysteria
Diabolic is easier to distinguish from Ecstatic prayer which is a form of possession
Very opposite from ecstasy
9th level transforming union highest form
three things
transformation under the influence and likeness of God, like true spouses, complete forgetfulness of self
Ave Maria!
Mass: Saturday 30th Week of Ordinary Time - Wkdy
Readings: - http://usccb.org/bible/readings/103021.cfm
1st: rom 11:1-2, 11-12, 25-29
Resp: psa 94:12-13, 14-15, 17-18
Gsp: luk 14:1, 7-11
More on the Readings: https://airmaria.com/r?m=1540
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