Dryness in Prayer Series

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This is a listing of spiritual direction posts on this site regarding dryness, or aridity, and the difficulties this can cause with prayer.  Click on the titles of the post to access them.

• Aridity – Navigating the Interior Life Spiritual Dictionary
• Blessed Mother Teresa Series by Dr. Ralph Martin:
  • Blessed Mother Teresa’s Dark Night (Part I of II)
  • Blessed Mother Teresa’s Dark Night (Part II of II)
• From the classic Carmelite meditation book Divine Intimacy:
  • Aridity — Divine Intimacy
  • Aridity and Progress — Divine Intimacy
• Dryness in Prayer Series:
  • Part I – What is going on?
  • Part II – Our part in the struggle…
  • Part III – God’s part in the struggle…
• Keeping Faith Alive during Life’s Dark Nights Series:
  • Part I – How faith is a response to revelation, how it penetrates the veil of the ordinary, and how it is essential to our relationship with God
  • Part II – The general patterns of growth which we experience
  • Part III –  How to keep faith alive during our lives’ dark nights
  • Part IV –  Conclusion of how to keep faith alive during these dark nights
• Prayer of St. Augustine on Aridity
• Sayings of Light and Love #14 (by Saint John of the Cross) on dryness
• Video: My prayer Life is Dry
• What is the Difference between Desolation and Aridity?
• What to Do when the Well Runs Dry:
  • Part I – Why the well can run dry and why, when we’ve been faithful to prayer and to living the Christian life, we can sometimes feel surprised and confused by this.
  • Part II- Four specific things one can do when confronted with aridity or dryness that is not caused by one’s unfaithfulness to God.

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