Christocentrism of Charism – Buggert - CarmelStream

lx. Interior Castle, 6.7.14, p. 150.
lxi. O'Donoghue points out that in these higher stages of prayer
Teresa does not mean by contemplation "discursive meditation".
"Here there is question of an interior glance, a kind of
intuition, a mere look, a simple vision. This mere look is ...
the launching pad of the mind's journey into the world of Divine
mystery... What has happened is that the memory has brought an
image before the understanding which launches the understanding
into the heavens of contemplation . . . ." Mysticism for our
Time, p. 33. For a similar treatment, see Moreno, "St. Teresa,
Contemplation and the Humanity of Christ," pp. 919-920 and
Thompson, Fire and Light, pp. 150-51, 155-56, where he
distinguishes between mediation and mode of mediation. Our God
experience, says Thompson, is always a Jesus-mediated experience.
But that experience can come to us in either the mode of images
or concepts or in the more supraconceptual or imageless mode of
the apophatic way.
lxii. O'Donoghue, Mysticism for Our Time, p. 33. O'Donoghue
points out (pp. 33-34) that because of Teresa's appreciation of
the incarnational or historical nature of religious experience,
even contemplative experience, liturgy also plays an essential
role in contemplative life for Teresa.
lxiii. Thompson, Fire and Light, p. 146.
lxiv. Karl Rahner, Opportunities for Faith: Elements of a Modern
Spirituality, trans. Edward Quinn, New York: Seabury Press,1974,
p. 126.
lxv. See especially chapters 27, 28 and 29 of the Life.
lxvi. O'Donoghue, Mysticism for Our Time, p. 41.
lxvii. Teresa often identifies with Mary Magdalene, the
Samaritan woman and others in their relationships with Christ.
See e.g. Interior Castle Book six, chapter seven.
lxviii. See e.g. the Life, 13.13, 22.12; Interior Castle, 6.9;
7. 1, 4, 8. Carroll points out that the emphasis in imitating
Christ is always on his suffering and death. See Carroll, "The
Saving Role of the Human Christ for St. Teresa," p. 139.
lxix. This theme of transformation into Christ runs throughout
Carroll's lecture. As Carroll states, for Teresa "we become most
properly human beings when in the inmost center of ourselves
Christ in enthroned...." See Carroll, "The Saving Role of the
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