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In this video we will be taking a look at the 9 levels of prayer.

1) Vocal Prayer: being attentive to the words one is saying and/or reading with focus on God, whom one is addressing.

2) Discursive Meditation: application of one's mind to spiritual truth; in order to penetrate it's meaning and carry it into practice.

3) Affective Mental Prayer: the operation of the will predominates over the intellect. A simplified meditation where love predominates. Prayer becomes "the language of love."

4) Acquired Recollection: or the prayer of simplicity: a simple love or gaze on some Divine Object, whether it be the Crucifix, the Eucharist or the loving awareness of some Christian truth or mystery.

5) Infused Recollection: the first degree of infused, mystical contemplation, a cooperation with God the Holy Spirit. The other methods of prayer are abandoned to be present, an experience of God.

6) Prayer of Quiet: Captivated by divine love; the awareness of God's presence, the soul is filled with sweetness and joy. sometimes all the faculties are captivated (ecstasy).

7) Prayer of Simple Union: both the intellect and the will are captivated and occupied with God.

8) Prayer of Ecstatic Union: also the "mystical espousal" or "conforming union." The Soul is centered on God alone.

9) Prayer of Transforming Union: also called the "mystical marriage" a prelude to the beatific life of glory and the most intimate union of the soul with God. Transformation of the soul into it's Beloved...