(2014-01-26) The Battle Between Two Kinds of Contemplatives




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Summary: Sermon titled "The Battle Between Two Kinds of Contemplatives" given on Sunday January 26, 2014. Size: 8.9 MB; duration: 25:54. The battle today is between two contemplatives: the contemplatives of God and the contemplatives of the devil. Those that strive to be God's contemplatives become like the Centurion of the Gospel: of great faith, having control over their body and soul, saying to their passions do this, and they do it, or go and they go and come and they come. Such souls are only able to reach such a state by subordinating reason to God and the passions to reason. God answers their prayers and works miracles for them and enlightens them. These are the Saints. On the other hand, there are those who seek enlightenment and answer to prayers apart from God's Holy Church... and they find it. What is amazing is that many many things of our present culture were pioneered and presaged in the visions and writings of these, the devil's contemplatives. Among them are the modern notions of cosmology and evolution as well as many other things. To overcome these insidious ideas so popular today, we must strive to become Centurions and follow the Centurions that have preceded us.