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How wonderful - Fr Daniel answered all my questions and struggles in trying to live prayer as a disposition. To hear again that I am loved as I am now and not as I want to be or think I should be is life-giving. Inspiring to know that if I keep to my daily silent prayer, the transformation is taking place. Loving those I am with and who are closest to me is the way to live out the fruits of this transforming prayer. I met Fr Daniel when he came to Scotland - he exudes the gentle love of Christ. The young friars who have presented this podcast on Carmelite prayer have done a wonderful job in the spirit of Teresa and John. Thank you so very much.

Thank you for these wonderful videos. May God continue to bless the ICS community.

Fr Daniel explained Prayer better than any I've heard. He elaborated in a way that made prayer easier to understand rather than making it more complicated. Thank you so much!!

This podcast was God sent to me, I almost give in to despair for I feel like I wasted time again and not doing my work to God. I prayed to the Holy Spirit and I found this... moved me to tears. GOD BLESS YOU, FR DANIEL AND YOUNG FRIAR. I pray that this video reaches many hearts and turn to God. ST TERESA OF AVILA, pls pray for us. 🙏

So glad I found this channel. Leaving a comment so the algorithm will recommend it to others.

Hello, I just want to say that these videos are the best and they are so helpful to me and speak to my life. There's so much Catholic divisiveness on the internet, if only the Church would listen to your videos then she could be healed by love.

I suppose the friendship aspect of prayer is why I think so many of us are weary of the centring prayer stuff, it makes it some method to break into the contemplative realm rather than a relationship which grows and to which God eventually bestows the gift of Infused prayer.

This podcast is such a blessing. I enjoy reading too, but it's hard to find the time to do as much of that with a full time job. But while I'm getting ready, or on a drive, or eating lunch, I can listen to you guys insightfully discuss spiritual Carmelite material I would like to read but haven't been able to get to, and you add your own Carmelite experiences and reflections to it too. Truly a blessing. Thank you :)

Thankyou for this teaching. I am Living in the Divine will (Luisa Piccarreta) now but do struggle with Prayer apart from Rosary Mass & Divine Mercy chaplet🇦🇺🙏🌹🎶✝️

This is so powerful. Thank you very much.

Beautiful God bless you both

I hope you see this message. I have been struggling with mental prayer for almost 20 years now. And i still find it to be a chore to be done with. I realise it's beauty, it's importance for virtue, it's necessity to stay in grace and will of God. And yet it's a challenge for me to be faithful in mental prayer. I have always been drawn to Carmelite spirituality. I'm so happy i found this channel. But a living, talking person to guide you is still very important. Can we have anyone of you as a spiritual director?

Wonderful, thank you!

Thank you so much for these podcast!!! May God bless your work

Thank you so much for making these!! Praying for y'all 🙏🏼!

Heartfelt gratitude, Fr. Daniel. Your spirtual support is pure gift.

thank you father Daniel, from a carmelite of France south Province. Good to see you !

Thank you, fathers! This is exactly what I need at this stage in my prayer life. May God be praised, and may God bless you and all the work that you do!🙏🙌

Thank you so much for this teaching! It is a blessing 🙏🏽

What I got from it was, living out prayer in our daily lives, walking the 8 steps of the Beatitudes and living out love in prayer form or prayer form done in love, it can be a prayerful life and bring prayer to life, to show it, live it, give it

Wonderful video, thanks from the ❤

Thank you Father Daniel. Your exposition on st Theresa of Jesus life s work is enriching. There is so much I need to know in my interior life and St Theresa has taught me how to pray better in friendship with our Lord Jesus Christ.

These conversations are so rich and fruitful. Truly an intimate sharing with friends, helping us demystify the apparent divide between life and prayer. Thank you!

This conversation is amazing! I will be tuning in for more. Thankyou for unlocking the simplicity of prayer.

Thankyou Fathers

Hoping it won't be a long wait for the next series! Not that I couldn't stand to relisten to this one again and again, but these are great. Also, the 30 minute length is great for use in community formation times for our OCDS community. :)

Hello. Recently I had trouble to pray. I would like to share my experience how to overcome this dryness - go to KZfaq and listen everything what you find regarding the praying like this video. I see that my efforts and willingness for change of such stagnation coming to its fruition ❤️💓💞 Thank you for your channel

Thank you for this season! It was so helpful 🙏🏼

After three years of discipling his disciples, at his last Passover with them, Jesus called them his friends, and no longer considered them servants. He changed them for the better. He prepared them to receive his Holy Spirit who would complete their transformation. This transformation is the telos for our prayer life, for our reading and studying Scripture, for our relationship with Christ. The soul gets transformed for the better by didactic instruction, but only up to a point. It further gets transformed when the reason rests in contemplative prayer. After the soul's reason does its part (discipleship), it can come to rest, allowing the soul's awareness to heighten, being no longer distracted by the reason's imaginations, to observe the heart of the soul. The illnesses in the heart get illuminated. Once illuminated, the heart can heal (katharsis). Once the heart is healed, it no longer inordinately drives the reason nor distracts the awareness. The heart or core of the soul healed, the reason or logos of the soul at sabbath rest, the soul at peace or shalom or whole, the awareness or spirit of the soul communes with the Spirit of God (theosis).

Thanks for sharing

We enjoyed having Fr. Daniel at our O.C.D.S. retreat in Colorado Springs a few years ago! Thank you for these videos.

Enlightening

Thank you 🙏🏻 so much….. I really really need this now….. I’m going through dryness in my prayers and lacking fervor, as I used to have….. 😢😢💔💔 Okay listening now from California- 🙏🏻🙏🏻💔🚂🇺🇸🕊️

Wonderful and inspirational presentation!

This was so helpful. I’ve been working at this since my reversion six years ago and there’s so much I learn each time I listen or read her. I’ve always had problems doing things instead of praying but just recently God let me understand that prayer like this is a way of life and sometimes just being social is prayer ie last Saturday was my confirmand’s party and it was an all day affair. I knew I wouldn’t have time for personal prayer but remembered that being there for him and his family was more important. Is there some time you could do a Live Q & A? 😊

God bless

Thank you for this, very helpful. God bless you.

Thank you 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Such a blessing. Thank you!

Awesome!!!

Amen 🙏🏼

Thank you🙏🏻 very helpful.

Thank you, Fr. Chowning, for enlightening me more about St. Teresa's teaching on prayer!

Saving and sharing

Amen.

monasteries are one huge comfort zone where every need is met.

Excellent

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I so ❤ the music that you use intermittently in your videos! What is the title please?!❤😊

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How can I find other episodes? KZfaq? At what number of episode does Teresa of Avila start? Or this series on prayer?

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What if you are dying.?

My mom left Catholicism because there was too much ritual that man has made. She became a baptist Is which teach just the bible no Is rituals that man made

I'm a firm believer in jesus christ not catholicism

If she said it was a female, then take her at her word...to say that other scholars think it was a male. So what does mean when you say such thing, father? You're insinuating that Saint Teresa wasn't honest, that she said "female" friend to make her look good.. I've read one of the biography of St Teresa by a female author wh9 suggested that she somehow lost the purity through that incident...so please becareful how you phrase it.