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What Is Catholic Mysticism? The Church’s Hidden Fire

St. Anthony's Tongue

Support the Patreon! Buy a Zine! A new series exploring Catholic mysticism through the words and phrases that show up again and again in the mystical tradition: union with God, the dark night, meditation, contemplation, the wound of love, and more. But before we can talk about any of those, we have to start with the most obvious and maybe most misunderstood word of all: Mysticism. In this episode, we talk about what Catholic mysticism is, what it is not, why it is not just spiritual fireworks, and how the mystical life is really about being transformed by God’s presence into deeper love of God and neighbor.