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Nescivi – A Cry of A Heart in Love with God
Anthony Lilles “Nescivi!” This is the Latin for what it seems the Shulamite Bride of the Canticle of Canticles sings in 6:12. The passage is OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAdifficult to translate. One 16th...
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St. John of the Cross
Carmelitana CollectionWhen the confessors and learned men were Teresa’s own friars, their voice was familiar to her and it had the sound of her own traditions and of the doctrines and teachings of the...
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Influence of St. John of the Cross in the 17th Century
Carmelitana CollectionThe first disciples of St. John of the Cross, unaffected by the scholasticism which was to prevail afterward, follow his Trinitarian schema. José de Jesús Maria (Quiroga) wrote...
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In the Darkness of Advent
Rebecca from a solitary birdWhat we need most in order to make progress is to be silent before this great God with our appetite and with our tongue, for the language he best hears is silent love. –St...
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On Dec. 14, Church remembers Spanish mystic St. John of the Cross
By Benjamin MannDec. 14 is the liturgical memorial of Saint John of the Cross, a 16th century Carmelite priest best known for reforming his order together with Saint Teresa of Avila, and for writing...
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St. John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church (Feast)
Feastday: Wednesday, December 14, 2016Saint John was born, probably in 1540, in Fontiveros, near Avila in Spain. His father died when he was very young and he had to move with his mother from one...
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Prayers of St. John of the Cross
Let Your divinity shine on my intellect by giving it divine knowledge, and on my will by imparting to it the divine love and on my memory with the divine possession of glory.Let us so act that by means...
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Silence Enflamed: John of the Cross and Prayer
Kerrie HideDownload PDFI shall lead her into solitude and there speak tenderly to her heart [Hos2:14] (F3.34).read more
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John of the Cross: Practical Considerations
Father Francis Xavier WeningerI. St. John asked of God, in his first Mass, the grace of remaining free from all mortal sin; and at another time, he begged to suffer, to labor, and to be despised for...
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St. John of the Cross, Mystic of the Light
Lawrence S. CunninghamThere are so many mistaken notions about St. John of the Cross (1542-91) that we might do well to clarify some of them at the outset. He is, of course, most identified with the...
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