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John of the Cross is one of the “greats” in the long line of saints who wrote and taught about what it is like to experience God. An outstanding theologian, he was the confessor, coworker, and cherished friend of St. Teresa of Avila.
This Carmelite friar was also a poet and mystic who expressed both the ecstasies and the “dark nights” of the journey to God in some of the most beautiful poems in the Spanish language.
John was passionately in love with God, and he experienced God as being passionately in love with him. But he didn’t stop there: He was absolutely convinced that this is how God views every single person he created. And so, the great message of the life and writings of St. John of the Cross is that each and every life is an ongoing love story—the story of God inviting us to a deeper transforming relationship with him.
More than anything else, John’s life and his writings proclaim one central truth: God loves you passionately and without reserve. He is like a lover, a bridegroom…
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