If you are not practicing mental prayer every day, are you really on the road to heaven? The saints would say that you're not.

In this episode of The Devil is in the Details, Dan and Jordan continue their series on The Devil in the Castle and Saint Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle, stepping from the courtyard into the first mansion. They unpack why the saints, including Teresa of Avila, Alphonsus Liguori, and Aquinas, insist that daily mental prayer and a daily examen are not optional extras, but essential for salvation and authentic discipleship.

You will hear about

• Why Aquinas can say it is a sin not to pray

• How mental prayer actually gives you self knowledge and heals self delusion

• What a simple daily examen looks like in real life

• The “handles” sin creates for the enemy, and how they fall off as you grow in charity

• The lies that keep people from engaging in spiritual warfare, especially fear of “stirring things up”

They also walk through the "demonic goal" for those in the first mansion, the enemy’s tactics to keep you from daily prayer, and the concrete remedies the Church gives us, such as Mass, confession, mental prayer, and a spiritual rule of life.