Today the expression “Spiritual Life” is quite often used by many souls interested in transcendental maters. But this expression can be interpreted differently and give way to various surmises.
“I am in quest of the Spiritual Life”, “I follow the Spiritual Life” are common sentences suggesting other question: “In fact, what is Spiritual Life?
You can compare spiritual life with a long journey to the Holy City of God. So, the disciple must go forward and learn how to travel through it patiently and constantly, without return or deviation, always on a fixed route.
The spiritual work in the soul is mainly made by educating the sensibility.
The main concern is not so much to acquire knowledge or to increase mental powers during the first stages of the spiritual process, but an inner transformation.
An Ordained Son has to synthesize and demonstrate spiritual life.
No suitable word can express it. Its name should be Life, but the term “life” relates only to physical and sensorial forms of man.