Contemplative Prayer - is when God embraces our heart!
St. Bonaventure writes that one should consider that through this love comes all indulgences given by God -all good abundance - and through this love is possessed the desirable memory of His Presence - then He embraces a person's heart! This is the consummation of the Soul! The perfect step! The Unitive Step!
What an individual experiences is not the object of his imagination, for one cannot attribute to Him neither time, neither face, neither shadow, neither measurement, neither limit; for He cannot be represented - but it is all desirable . . . Last, it cannot be entered in the rational order, and it cannot be defined, neither proved, neither appreciated, neither understood, neither grasped, for His intelligibility exceeds all intelligence. . . . but He is all desirable.
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Bonaventure, La Triple Voie, 1269-1270. Available from the internet. http://jesusmarie.free.fr/bonaventrue_la_triple_voie.html
Translation my own. Third Section, Consummation of the Soul, XVII.5
St. Bonaventure writes that one should consider that through this love comes all indulgences given by God -all good abundance - and through this love is possessed the desirable memory of His Presence - then He embraces a person's heart! This is the consummation of the Soul! The perfect step! The Unitive Step!
What an individual experiences is not the object of his imagination, for one cannot attribute to Him neither time, neither face, neither shadow, neither measurement, neither limit; for He cannot be represented - but it is all desirable . . . Last, it cannot be entered in the rational order, and it cannot be defined, neither proved, neither appreciated, neither understood, neither grasped, for His intelligibility exceeds all intelligence. . . . but He is all desirable.
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Bonaventure, La Triple Voie, 1269-1270. Available from the internet. http://jesusmarie.free.fr/bonaventrue_la_triple_voie.html
Translation my own. Third Section, Consummation of the Soul, XVII.5
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