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...
Monthly Archive: February 2024
“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...
“Shall We Gather at the River?”
[“And he showed me a crystalline river of the water of life . . . coming forth out of the throne of God and of the lamb” (Apoc 22:1).] O Lover, All of it...
“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...