A Brief Description of the Soul and the Spiritual Life from Saint Teresa of Avila — Clarifying Catholicism

I spend a lot of time wondering how people live without any conception of the spiritual life. This is not in an effort of pride, but an effort of pure wonder due to my myopic viewpoint. I understand life in a way that includes both the physical and spiritual, but there are certainly others who deny the spiritual and attempt, as I do on the other side, to develop well thought out arguments to support their position. My goal for this discussion is not to argue, but to contextualize the spiritual life in comparison with my wonder through Saint Teresa’s lens. Saint Teresa of Avila clearly describes the necessity of the spiritual life […]

Nick Dinunzio, Mount Saint Mary’s
A Brief Description of the Soul and the Spiritual Life from Saint Teresa of Avila — Clarifying Catholicism