Monthly Archive: February 2024

May the Lover “Submerge You”!

May the Lover “Submerge You”!

[“May God make known to you, . . .who he is and how he deals with his servants, and especially with his handmaids—and may he submerge you in him. Where the abyss of his...

“When Gods Die”

“When Gods Die”

[Jack Welch, OCarm, When Gods Die: An Introduction to John of the Cross. Paulist Press, 1990.] O Lover, Part of my encounter in the mid-1990s with the spirituality of Juan de la Cruz was...

“Theophanic Nature Mysticism”

“Theophanic Nature Mysticism”

O Lover, Francis of Assisi (c.1181-1226) exemplified “theophanic nature mysticism,” writes Bernard McGinn, the historian of Christian spirituality. As a devotee of the Feast of the Epiphany (“show time!”) and, serendipitously, the father of...