The Way to Interior Growth

St. Teresa of Ávila's Guide to Growth

Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, CFR

In continuing our discussion on the interior life, Fr. Mark-Mary elaborates on St. Teresa of Ávila and Fr. Thomas Dubay and dives into explaining the conditions for growth in prayer and the interior life.

Today, Fr. Mark-Mary explains the four conditions for growth:

  1. doing the will of God
  2. growth in prayer does not depend on a person's immediate situation
  3. the spiritual life cannot be reduced to doing the bare minimum
  4. purification

Fr. Mark-Mary goes over each condition in detail and explains what that looks like for different people in different stages of life.

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