The Mission of the School of Mary is to form Christians in the spiritual life, enabling them to respond fruitfully to the call to holiness. Drawing on the living tradition of the Catholic Church, especially the doctors of the spiritual life, the School fosters experiential knowledge of each stage of spiritual growth, so as to lead students to union with Christ and a loving participation in His redemptive mission.
This page is dedicated to the advanced stages of spiritual growth: union of love and loving participation in the Lord’s redemptive mission. At the School of Mary, our formation program follows the stages of spiritual growth, with the fourth and fifth years (SF4 and SF5) dedicated to Union and Fruitfulness. We understand that spiritual growth doesn’t adhere to calendar years, and these years at the School of Mary are designed to nurture and form individuals according to their spiritual development.
During SF4 and SF5 (see here and below), we focus on Spiritual Betrothal, Spiritual Marriage, the Flares of the Holy Spirit, Participation in the Lord’s Redemptive Mission and death by love.
– General Presentation of Spiritual Formation in the School of Mary. (Reminder)
SF400 Course, please see here. (Highly recommended)
Articles
The articles are not arranged in any particular order.
1- The Revelation of the Our Father
2- “Apostolate and Growth of Love” from “I Am A Daughter of the Church” (Bl. Marie Eugene).
3- The Goal of Our Life is Union With Christ
4- Jesus the Groom, What Does it Mean?
5- Moving Between the Mansions and the Seventh Mansion (video)
7- Jesus Entering Deeper in us (We need to imitate Him. United to Him he makes us descend like him with Him. See all the other diagrams commented)
8- Jesus’ Embrace on the Cross
9- The Act of Oblation of St. Therese of the Child Jesus
10– Therese’s Copernican Revolution
12- The Holy Spirit in Saint John of the Cross (in English) especially the latter part regarding the Flares of the Holy Spirit (in French)
14- The Perfect Contemplative Prayer of Christ, chapter from “Where the Spirit Breathes, Prayer and Action”. (see the video of the talk on this chapter)
15- The Meaning of Our Life, Bearing Children for Jesus
17- Forgiveness, the Core of Martyrdom
18- To Love Judas
19- The “Difficulty” of Loving Judas
20- “Keep Your Spirit in Hell, and do Not Despair” (Jean Lafrance)
21- Mother Teresa: Dark Night or Something Else?
22- What Does the Good Shepherd Do?
23- ‘Solitude Before Serving’ in Priestly Formation
24- The Bishop, ‘Master of Perfection’
25- Leadership in the Church: The Vision of Christ the King
26- “Hoping for Everyone: Therese of Lisieux and Charles Péguy” by Fr. François-Marie Léthel OCD
27- The Revelation of The Our Father
28- Baptismal Priesthood in the Prayer of the Heart
29- The Aim in Spiritual Life: the Act of Charity
30- True Evangelisation: The Apostolate of the Transformed Heart
31- “Apostolate and Growth of Love” from “I Am A Daughter of the Church”.
32- The Perfect Contemplative Prayer of Christ, chapter from “Where the Spirit Breathes, Prayer and Action”. (see the video of the talk on this chapter) This is a very interesting approach to the acts the Lord performed to save us.
33- The Profound Mystery of Divine Friendship
34- Martyrdom
35- What is Death by Love (St. John of the Cross)
36- A Soul Aflame Cannot Remain Inactive
37- Our Lady of Compassion and St. Teresa
38- The Thickest Mystery: The Passion as the Manifestation of Divine Light
Two major contributions to these stages of spiritual life (in French):
– Louis Guillet OCD, Voyez quel amour Dieu nous donne, Paris, 1978. (His synthesis of Spiritual Theology, adding an entirely new part, i.e. a fourth stage to the classical three ways—centred on participation in the redemptive work.)
– Louis Guillet OCD, Gethsémani. Sainte Thérèse: L’amour crucifié, Nouvelles éditions Mame, 1980. (Continuation and deepening of the fourth part introduced in the previous book.)
Books
Louis Guillet: “Voyez quel amour Dieu nous donne” (in French). (Part IV of the book is groundbreaking.)
Louis Guillet: “Gethsémani, Ste Therese: l’amour crucifié” (in French). (Can be considered as a deepening of Part IV of the previous book.)