Nettet10. apr. 2024 · Memorial of John of the Cross – a Haiku poem. I wrote this Haiku poem after an intense session of Contemplative Prayer. NOTE. This poem breaks with the usual 5-7-5 structure of a Haiku poem. I sit in the Chapel. My customary prayer time. I begin Sacred Reading. But God soon grants Inner Stillness. The “Prayer of Quiet”. Nettet31. mar. 2024 · St. John of the Cross, Spanish San Juan de la Cruz, original name Juan de Yepes y Álvarez, (born June 24, 1542, Fontiveros, Spain—died December 14, 1591, …
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Nettetthe loved in the lover there transformed! On my flowering breast, that breast I kept for him alone, there he took his rest while I regaled my own, in lulling breezes from the cedars blown. The breeze, from … Nettetto St. John's masterpiece, the forty-stanza Cdntico espiritual (The Spiritual Canticle), a dramatic lyric about the love between a human soul (the Bride) and the Bridegroom a remarkably fresh and adventurous poem rich with eastern echoes of the Song of Songs, for which St. John had a par ticular affection. The opening lines of the Cdntico, hans joby
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NettetThis book was released on 2008-08 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translating poetry of 16th-century Spanish mystic St. John of the Cross, this edition includes original poems on facing pages, scholarly notes, a bibliography, and color illustrations. Nettet17. mai 2024 · St. John of the Cross’ poem narrates the journey of the soul from its bodily home to its union with God. The journey is called “The Dark Night,” darkness representing the hardships and difficulties the soul meets in detachment from the world and reaching the light of the union with the Creator. NettetSt John of the Cross testifies to a God who longs to meet us in our deepest need. Whilst rejection and imprisonment played their part in the life of this sixteenth-century Spanish friar, John's poetry and prose … ppn tax