Today's Lenten reading comes from St. John of the Cross' spiritual classic, The Dark Night. As an aside, by default I consistently now type that as The Dark Knight, and then have to fix it. In this passage he is commenting on the line, "In darkness and secure," from the poem that provides the setting for his treatise. In St. John's spiritual ( Read more... )

Today's Lenten reading comes from The Ascent of Mount Carmel by St. John of the Cross, the great spiritual work devoted to the purgation of the senses and the spirit as is necessary for a soul to truly live a life absorbed in God:

A soul with desires wearies itself, because it is like someone with a fever whose thirst increases by the minute, and ( Read more... )