“While Mary is thus our example in this aspect, St. John paints for us the glory of the divine Motherhood as image of the mystical life even further. It is as if the Holy Spirit in the highest phases of the mystical life bears his Bride towards the Bridegroom, so that they embrace and entwine. …
After John had been arrested,Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the Gospel of God:“This is the time of fulfillment.The Kingdom of God is at hand.Repent, and believe in the Gospel.” As he passed by the Sea of Galilee,he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting their nets into the sea;they were fishermen.Jesus said to them,“Come after …
“In his Explanation of the ‘The Living Flame of Love’, St. John of the Cross draws the Holy Mother of God as clearly as possible into the circle of his metaphor clarifying the mystical life. Speaking of the shining of the Lamps of God in us and our intake of the divine Light, which means …
The people were filled with expectation,and all were asking in their heartswhether John might be the Christ.John answered them all, saying,“I am baptizing you with water,but one mightier than I is coming.I am not worthy to loosen the thongs of his sandals.He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” After all the people …
“A favourite image, under which St. John of the Cross with so many other mystical writers illuminates the necessity of our receptivity and purity in order to receive God within us, is the image of the window that must let through the light of the sun. On the paintings of our Flemish masters, in the …
Jesus and his disciples went into the region of Judea,where he spent some time with them baptizing.John was also baptizing in Aenon near Salim,because there was an abundance of water there,and people came to be baptized,for John had not yet been imprisoned.Now a dispute arose between the disciples of John and a Jewabout ceremonial washings.So …
“(Mary’s) being full of the Holy Spirit was still only the first phase in her election that would be crowned by her Divine Motherhood, by the incarnation of God himself in her womb. Mary is more than full of grace, filled by the Holy Spirit, she is the Bride of the Holy Spirit and through …
It happened that there was a man full of leprosy in one of the towns where Jesus was;and when he saw Jesus,he fell prostrate, pleaded with him, and said,“Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean.”Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him, and said,“I do will it. Be made clean.”And the leprosy left him …
“In the first place he glorifies in Mary, that she, whom the Angel called full of grace, was wholly filled of the Holy Spirit, always let herself be led by the Holy Spirit, an ideal that we must strive at in our ascent to God. St. John (of the Cross) admits that it is not …
Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit,and news of him spread throughout the whole region.He taught in their synagogues and was praised by all. He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up,and went according to his custominto the synagogue on the sabbath day.He stood up to read and was handed a …