It's about that time again. Actually, it's well past that time again. Here's the next installment.
Study Guide for The Ascent of Mount Carmel
Read chapters 18-19, p. 210-219 in the Collected Works
Chapter 18--Describes also how these visions may cause deception even though they be of God.
1-2. What is St. John's chief reason for writing at such length about visions?
5-7. These paragraphs discuss what a spiritual guide or spiritual director should do and often does not do in the face of such visions. What is St. John's main theme throughout this section? Why does he consider this so important?
8-9. What is one of the chief dangers of entertaining visions? Why might this occur?
Chapter 19--Wherein is expounded and proved how, although visions and locutions which come from God are true, we may be deceived about them. This is proved by quotations from Divine Scripture.
Choose one of the examples that St. John lists , and "make it your own." Read the passages he refer to in the Bible, look at what God says and how people interpret it. Be ready to explain how God's word is true even though people are looking for something else.
How does this relate to the danger of visions and locutions? Why does it provide further evidence of what we should not do?
