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"...a milestone in American religious publishing." New Catholic
World John of the Cross: Selected Writings translated and
introduced by Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D. preface by Ernest E. Larkin,
O. Carm. I abandoned and forgot myself Laying my face on my
beloved; All things ceased; I went out from myself, Leaving my
cares forgotten among the lilies. John of the Cross 1542-1591 There
are few works on the spiritual life in the West that can match the
insight and sheer beauty of those of the sixteenth-century Spanish
Carmelite, St. John of the Cross. A collaborator with St. Teresa of
Avila in the reform movement that attempted to forge a new style of
religious life, dedicated to recollection yet distinct from both
the enthusiasm of the alumbrados and the sterility of the
conventual Carmelites, John was no stranger to suffering. As he so
memorable wrote in The Ascent of Mount Carmel, summing up his
doctrine of detachment, "nothing (nada), nothing, nothing, and even
on the Mountain nothing." Yet the harshness of his teaching that
emerges in the context of his commentaries on his poetry is balance
by the poetry itself-a poetry that breathes the warmth and
sweetness of the tender love of God that made John one of the
greatest mystical writers of all time and earned him the title,
Doctor of the Church. Here, under one cover, are selections from
his major works in a revised translation by Kieran Kavanaugh,
O.C.D. Taken as a whole, this volume represents the essential St.
John of the Cross and will serve well both the newcomer and the
expert.
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