Posted by johnboy on May 15, 1999 at 18:16:19:
What are all these different CALLS by the Spirit?
Might anyone translate what the words in CAPS mean? as per the two excerpts below? thanks, johnboy
Now, if the gifts have no human mode specifically distinct from their superhuman mode, it follows that -- as we have often said -- there is for all truly spiritual souls a general REMOTE CALL or vocation to the infused contemplation of the mysteries of faith -- a contemplation which alone can give a profound and living understanding of the redemptive Incarnation, of the indwelling of God within us, of the sacrifice of Calvary substantially perpetuated on the altar during the Mass, and of the mystery of the Cross which should be reproduced in any true and profound Christian life. However, this ' general and remote call ' does not mean the same as an ' individual and PROXIMATE CALL, ' just as a ' SUFFICIENT CALL ' does not mean the same as an ' EFFICACIOUS CALL. '
http://abbey.apana.org.au/theology/Garrigou/3WAYS/07.htm
The Direttorio mistico consists of five treatises: (I) An Introduction, on the gifts of the Holy Ghost and the gratiae gratis datae; (2) on acquired and infused contemplation, for which, as Scaramelli admits, the gifts are sufficient ; 1 (3) on the degrees of obscure infused contemplation, from passive recollection to the transforming union. (Here, in Chapter XXXII, Scaramelli admits that several authors teach 1 Ch xiv. that infused contemplation may be desired humbly by all spiritual souls; but he comes to the conclusion that in practice it is better not to desire it unless one has received a SPECIAL CALL call to it: ' Altiora te ne quaesieris') ; [4] (4) on the degrees of distinct infused contemplation (visions and extraordinary interior words); (5) of the passive purifications of the senses and of the spirit.
http://abbey.apana.org.au/theology/Garrigou/3WAYS/04.htm