Contemplative Haven

Yes, a survey.  Well of course you can trust me.  Apart from the fact that they will be on the Internet, all responses will be kept confidential (basically because I can’t remember anything anymore).

I don’t wish to appear as if I’m poking my nose, sunglasses and magnifying glass into your business, but as of today, fifty people have downloaded Part One of Father Thomas Dubay’s 13-part podcast on contemplation from my fileshare link that I posted in January 2008. 

For Parts Two to Thirteen, there have been anywhere from eighteen to thirty-two downloads.

So I was wondering if ”said downloaders” would be interested in discussing them one by one here at the Haven.  If so, we could perhaps do one a week over the course of the summer (some may require more than one post – we’d have to see how it goes).

If there are a fair number of “yes” responses in the combox here (you don’t have to leave your real given name unless you want to, but I look forward to a little imagination in the pseudonyms, please; perhaps Matilda, or Hortense, or Guillaume), then I would be happy to go ahead with this endeavor.  If no one responds, I may do it anyway, just because, well…just because.  I have my reasons, and you’ll never get them out of me.  (Basically because I can’t remember anything anymore).  I think I already said that.  

A reader asked if it would still be possible to get Father Thomas Dubay’s 13-episode contemplation podcast that I posted about here in August.  Unable to find the podcast in the EWTN audio archives, and having no success emailing my own audio files to my reader as attachments because of their size, my friend JohnT advised me that I would have to “stage” my files somewhere on the web in order to proceed. (Thanks, JT!)

So if anyone else missed the chance to download the series the first time around, here are my file-share links to each episode.  Just allow a few minutes for the little video box on the left-hand side to open and for all the details to appear further down.  You may just listen, or scroll down and click the download button to save to your own hard drive.  As long as I remember to log in at least once every thirty days, the files should be there indefinitely, so you may download and/or just listen to them at your own pace.

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

Episode 11

Episode 12

Episode 13 

Many thanks to Father Dubay and to EWTN for the original podcast. I’m sure you will benefit greatly from the series they provided.

Father Thomas Dubay, author of, “Fire Within”, as well as many other wonderful works such as, “Deep Conversion, Deep Prayer”, currently has a 13-part podcast on contemplation available for downloading or listening.  You will only be able to access it for a limited number of days, so please don’t wait too long. 

I cannot say enough about this holy priest.  Some of you may remember that I quoted him often last year, as we went mansion by mansion through St. Teresa of Avila’s, “Interior Castle”.   He is one of our finest interpreters of both Teresa and St. John of the Cross, and his mission in life appears to be to bring the knowledge of contemplation and contemplative prayer to the masses – to help us understand that deep prayer, contemplative prayer, is meant for everyone, that holiness is what we were born for, that union with the Divine is a very real possibility for all of us, including the Transforming Union.

I would really encourage you to take advantage of this series Father Dubay is providing.  You can get all the details concerning where to find it over at Catholic iPod.  Hurry!