Shedding Light on the “Dark Night”
Debra Black
May 20, 2024
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“A spiritual dark night vs. darkness in life is differentiated by its origin.” – Debra Black
The Bitterness of The Dark Night
Glenn Dickinson
April 14, 2024
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“The saint’s insight is that aridity is not a sign of backsliding but of progress; it is exactly that process by which God draws the soul away from childish pleasures to the hard work of purification.” – Glenn Dickinson
God is Enough: The Ascent of Mt. Carmel
Glenn Dickinson
March 8, 2024
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“Perfect detachment from all that is not God is what we will have in fullness in Heaven. So we should start actively seeking it now, here in this life.” – Glenn Dickinson
The Spiritual Sufferings of Christ
Patrick O'Hearn
April 6, 2023
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“Throughout our lives we too go through the ebb and flow of consolation and desolation. But never has our desolation compared to Christ’s.” – Patrick O’Hearn
The Letters of St. Paul of the Cross: ‘Courage, Dear One’
Amy Knight
January 16, 2023
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“Courage, dear one. God wishes to make you all His and, therefore tries you and exercises you so that you may be a good soldier. Have no fear, dear one, for you will have the victory.” – St. Paul of the Cross
The Letters of St. Paul of the Cross: ‘A Sacred Silence of Love’
Amy Knight
November 15, 2022
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“Since faith is so pleasing to the Lord, He is gracious to give us so many opportunities to show Him our love in the darkness of faith.” – Amy Knight
The Letters of St. Paul of the Cross: ‘Despoiled of Everything’
Amy Knight
October 11, 2022
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“I see that God desires that you be despoiled of everything and have no happiness beyond the happiness of doing the Holy Will of the Highest Good, reposing with deep humility on his loving bosom.” -St. Paul of the Cross
In the Darkness We See Farther – Pondering the Paradox of the “Dark Knowing” of Faith
Msgr. Charles Pope
May 12, 2021
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Seeing and knowing by faith is “obscure” – but how can that obscurity paradoxically help us to see better?
Passive Purification
Dan Burke
November 8, 2020
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What is the usual way God purifies us? Find out when Father Gabriel of Saint Mary Magdalen reflects in this excerpt from his classic Carmelite meditation book “Divine Intimacy”.
A Divine Darkness
Claire Dwyer
May 28, 2020
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Claire Dwyer explores the mystical reality of the “Dark Night” through the experience of St. Elizabeth of the Trinity.
