PRAYER AND EMOTIONAL MATURITY
Becoming Strong Inwardly, Taking Action

Denial, anger, depression, and anxiety, block the path to true freedom. Hostile environments at home and work feed our sense of being out of control and totally under attack. To deal with these realities, Sr. Riley introduces the listener to a series of meditation techniques that help us address our unhealthy defense mechanisms, face our fears and begin to understand the peace and strengths that come from utilizing the insights of mystics as well as psychologists. Sr. Riley leads the listener gently along a path of self revelation that shows the dynamics that are at work behind procrastinating, diverting, generalizing, being late, losing focus, lying, forgetting, misplacing etc. She explains how we carry our history with us and as we understand our past better we can change our behavior in the present. Using insights from Teresa’s Interior Castle, the Cloud of Unknowing, and De Caussade S.J., she shows how the interior life is steeped in vocal prayer, meditation, acquired recollection, the prayer of quiet, simple union, and finally the transformed Union. A person following this inner journey should better be able to handle conflict in the world around them. She exposes the ways of dirty fighting, avoiding issues and attacking persons, blaming others, labeling people, being sarcastic, etc.. In the place of destructive reactions to conflict filled situations, Sr. Riley offers a way of being honest with our own emotions and then be able to calmly face the intense feelings of others without running away or striking back. Every family, community, parish needs such people to be instruments of grace and tranquility in a fear filled tumultuous world and Church.

CDAH541
2 CDs , plus outline