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Podcast: The Commentaries
Episode: 15. The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena: Three Lights of Truth
Description: Sister Mary Madeline Todd explores the theme of the three lights of truth within Saint Catherine's Treatise of Prayer. Beginning with the necessity of the light of reason, she delves into the stages of spiritual growth and the various kinds of tears experienced in a spiritual life. The episode concludes with a discussion on the three lights by which individuals come to know truth, emphasizing the importance of faith, the discipline of the senses, and complete surrender to the will of God in attaining a foretaste of eternal life even in this world.Episode 15 covers Treatise 3, subsections 18...