What happens when prayer no longer feels alive? When the zeal you once had disappears, the Rosary becomes difficult, and God suddenly seems far away?
Many Catholics fear that spiritual dryness means they have lost their conversion—or even that God has abandoned them. But the traditional teaching of the Church makes an essential distinction: the loss of spiritual consolation is not the same as the loss of sanctifying grace.
In this episode of The Conversion Most Catholics Are Afraid to Talk About, we examine what spiritual dryness really is, why God may sometimes permit consolation to disappear, and why not every period of dryness should automatically be considered spiritual growth.
We will distinguish sensible fervor from true devotion of the will, dryness from culpable lukewarmness, and changing emotions from the supernatural life of grace. We will also consider how negligence, venial sin, exhaustion, ordinary burdens, and attachment can affect the spiritual life—and why Catholics should examine their conscience without falling into either presumption or unnecessary fear.
Drawing from the Douay-Rheims Bible, traditional Catholic catechisms, St. Francis de Sales, St. Alphonsus Liguori, Holy Job, and St. Peter, this lesson explains how Catholics should respond when God seems hidden.
🙏 If your prayer became dry tomorrow, would you continue serving God even without consolation?
