Contemplation and Mystical Prayer

Contemplation as distinct from meditation; acquired and infused contemplation; the grades of mental prayer from discursive prayer to the prayer of quiet and the unions; the passive purgations; aspiring to the mystical life

See also The Nature of the Gift of Wisdom — in The Seven Gifts in Particular · Meditative Prayer — in Prayer

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dark night · infused contemplation · mystical theology (ed.)

In the index as Prayer · Contemplation · Dryness of spirit · Ecstasy · Leisure · Mystic Theology · Mystic union of the soul with God · Paul, St. · Purgative way (in contemplation) · Quiet · Revelations · Richard of St. Victor · Seneca · Spiritual purgation · Supernatural recollection · Union · Visions

In the manuals

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A Handbook of Moral Theology (Koch–Preuss)

Antony Koch; adapted and edited by Arthur Preuss — 5 passages

Vol. IV, Pt. I, Chapter IV: Kinds of Prayer, nn. ¶28, ¶29, ¶31, ¶32 & ¶33 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)

Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels

Arthur Vermeersch, S.J.

Vol. II, Bk. II, Tr. II, Ch. I, Art. II, § 2. On Prayer, n. 188 — Concerning Mystical Prayer. 1. Notion. Mystical prayer denotes contemplation of God or of heavenly things, full of affection, extraordinary and ineffable, with a certain sense of the divine presence, and indeed an intima… Read in context →

Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae

Clement Marc, C.SS.R. — 2 passages

Vol. II, Part Third: On the Sacrame…, Tr. V, Diss. III, Ch. III, Art. II, § 1. On The Obligation Of The Confessor Toward Penitents Diverse From The State Of Soul, nn. ¶1844 & ¶1845 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Pastoral Questions

Benedict H. Merkelbach, O.P. — 28 passages

Ch. III, Question II: Concerning the Perfect and Contemplatives, nn. ¶2714–¶2734, ¶2764, ¶2765, ¶2766, ¶2767, ¶2768, ¶2769 & ¶2770 (28 passages — hover a number to read it)

Palladium Theologicum, Tome V: On the Virtues

Gaudentius Bontempi of Brescia, O.F.M. Cap. — 54 passages

Tr. VII, Last Disputation: On the S…, Question V: On the chief act of the contemplative life, and how this act differs from cogitation, meditation, speculation, and intuitive vision, nn. 1–19 (19 passages)

Tr. VII, Last Disputation: On the S…, Question VI: Whether contemplation has certain degrees of its perfection, how many, and which, nn. 1–35 (35 passages)