Mystic from blood and bone
P apież mistyku spoke today about the blood and bone, St. John of the Cross. His life "is not wool-gathering, but the hard fate." He did not wear a head in the clouds, but he lived "in practice and concrete."
C hciał to the religious community in which he lived, went back to the source. The reform which began, met with great resistance members. It was a horror. Trapped in Toledo, held in a cramped and stuffy cell, starved, mocked, scourged public ... After 9 months, he managed to escape. Paradoxically, it is in prison wrote one of the most beautiful of his works, gem spirituality and literature: "Spiritual Canticle."
B enedykt XVI: "It helps us understand that to go with him, does not mean an additional burden in and so quite a difficult life. No, this is something quite different. It is light, a force that helps us carry the burden of life. "
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