Your spiritual language

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We read about “love languages”, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about “spiritual languages”.

An earlier thread about emotional vs rational people made me want to pose a question.

Could you define your “spiritual language”? The school of Catholic thought where you feel at home? The sorts of devotions that bring you peace of soul?

Recently I borrowed from the library an audio book of “The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything”. WOW. Before I’d finished it, I bought my own copy of the book. I told my husband “I’ve realized that I am an inner Jesuit!” 🙂

Have any of you had a similar click? Perhaps you have found your spirituality to be more Franciscan, more Dominican? Your devotional style is more Lectio Divina than Divine Mercy?

Not that one is superior to another, simply another way we are all many parts of one body.
 
I spent two years in college seminary, and the one thing I miss the most was saying or chanting the LOTH in community. This was 10 years before Shorter Christian Prayer was released, but we chanted it in English. I still say the LOTH, but saying it alone simply does not have the impact that chanting in community does. On more than one occasion I have thought I should have become a Benedictine.
 
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Just saying. 😜
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I continue to vacillate between Carmelite and Jesuit spirituality, but mostly I’d just like to be Sister Bear of the Holy Souls.

I like the idea of getting people out of purgatory and meeting them later. I’d be willing to even meet them beforehand, but God uses the Internet and other places so he doesn’t need them to appear in my living room.
 
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I don’t know enough about the different “languages” or “spiritualities” to name one, but I have in the past tended to gravitate toward a more academic understanding of Bible and Catechism, and now I am making a effort, however weak, to cultivate a more personal relationship with Jesus. I find that reading about the saints and their writings helps with this.
 
Salesian Spirituality.
And the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
 
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Hmmm. Not something I have ever thought about in this way before.

My language or spirituality can only be described as juvenile even though I have been a Catholic my whole life. I cannot explain the difference between different orders or ways of thinking. Many times, I do not know what other people seem to know. I wouldn’t even call myself a student as I sometimes don’t have interest in learning about certain things, while other times I am incapable of understanding things.

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My spiritual language is Biblical Greek. But then again, in seminary they always said I was a closet Byzantine. With a screen door on the closet.

-Fr ACEGC
 
Don’t put yourself down.

A story likely still circulating is of an old farmer sitting in front of the Blessed Sacrament.

When asked whatever in heaven’s name he was doing, he said simply “I look at Jesus and He looks at me.”
 
I have been waiting for someone to say that they have a prayer language of a gift of tongues, from the Holy Spirit. I know several who do.
 
I admire the Jesuits, but I am more drawn to Carmelite/Dominican spirituality, and the lives of saints who were third order.
 
Hmmm. A thread on which I can think of nothing to say. Guess that’s what comes of not being a believer!🙂
 
Well actually, I was only being honest, I didn’t feel I was putting myself down.

I am comfortable with being who I am.
 
I don’t have a “prayer language,” but I am told my freakish ability to acquire a foreign language is a manifestation of some kind of spiritual gift.
 
That would be akin to the gift of tongues. My biggest problem with foreign languages is pronunciation 🙂 I can almost read French but can never pronounce it right… I cannot even imagine speaking Mandarin or Thai with the rising and falling sounds and pronunciation subtleties.
 
From what I have heard, people in France hold the same thing for French Canadians who visit there… 😂
 
I tend to learn languages backwards from the people around me, at least given my experience in Spanish immersion. I pick up pronunciations right away, and in fact, pronunciation seems to be the single biggest enabling factor in me learning a language. I tried for years to teach myself French to no avail, but then about a year ago, someone taught me to pronounce it, and I learned it in about a month and a half with Duolingo and a French breviary. When I went to Spanish immersion, I was one of about three or four students in the class who pronounced it at all convincingly from the outset, with a couple more who came along by the end, but most still sounded like gringos by the seventh week. One girl had a “valley girl” accent in Spanish, and even dropped in random “likes” as she spoke, i.e. she actually said “like” in English in between her Spanish words.
 
oh not just French Canadians. Belgians and Swiss whose first language is French are also mistreated linguistically 🙂
 
What a great question!

I’m drawn to both Ignatian and Carmelite spirituality. The Ignatian Spiritual Exercises are a more orderly prescribed method of prayer whereas Carmelite prayer is more free flowing.

I’m in formation to be a Secular Carmelite but I sometimes incorporate a bit of the Ignatian method into my prayer.
 
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