What is Contemplation?

83 in Cantica absorbed active contemplation affections aridity beatitude beginning belong bring charity Christian contemplation Christian perfection Christian soul Church contem dark and loving deep Divine dryness empty experience EXPERIMENTAL CONTACT external faith Father gift given glory God's graces of prayer gratis datae greatest hearts heaven helplessness Holy Ghost Holy Spirit homo efficitur Ibid Incarnate Word infinite infused contemplation infused love infused prayer interior Jesus John xiv joys of contemplation KINDS OF CONTEMPLATION knowledge and love labourers Last Supper left the beaten light LITURGY lives Lord is sweet love in order manifest meditate mind mystical contemplation nisi obedience obscure pain passive plative PROMISES OF CHRIST pure contemplatives purity quietist RAY OF DARKNESS realize remain sanctification sanctity satisfactions sense Serm solitude spiritual things Spiritualia SPRINGFIELD suffering supernatural taste for spiritual teaches TEMPLEGATE PUBLISHERS theology THOMAS AQUINAS Thomas Merton Thomas says true vocation words of St worldly