Si te unes por primera vez a esta aventura de amor humano y divino, lee las entradas desde el principio del Blog.
No encontrarás una especie de recetario de cocina, ni un conjunto de normas.
Sí te garantizo que encontrarás una forma de vivir, en amistad con Jesucristo, de la mano de Teresa de Jesús.
Sea cual sea tu situación de partida, eres bienvenido.
“Find a place where we can be alone and look upon Him present within us.”
When talking about meditation prayer at the end of the second mansion we said to allow ourselves to be looked by Jesus. During third mansion we will keep on practising meditation prayer with the daily Word of God with a novelty, instead of looking and allow ourselves to be looked with love, we will make an effort to learn to enter into recollection. It is the human capacity to concentrate, to enter within, till we quieten the noise of images, thoughts, etc. and stay in silence. With a certain effort, time and determination, in a few months we will be able to withdraw the noise within us. We will silence everything without nullifying it, we will tend to close our eyes and keep still.
When entering into the third mansion…
Translated from the original by Ana Giménez We live in impetuous societies where we want to achieve everything straight away. Time and effort seems to have disappeared, legal or illegal pills have the same effect in minutes. We would like […]
Translated from the original by Ana Giménez. “Recollection” is a way of living Christianity and it, in turn, tries to reform Church. The partisans of recollection envisage the human being in its unity, body and soul, understanding, memory and free […]
THIRD MANSION: General Introduction
A new and deeper way of living the Gospel is explained in the third mansion, deeper than in the two previous ones. It consists in a trip to our inner selves in search of our “core”, following the evangelical model of the rich young man. Teresa follows the ideas of a religious movement of her time known as the “recogidos” (partisans of recollection).