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Songs of the Soul in
Intimate Amorous Communion with God
O love you living flame
who wound with tender fire
my very soul, down to its
depth descending!
No longer hushed by shame,
sunder the veil that parts
for sweet befriending.
O soft subjection!
o wound that joys beget!
o gentle hand! O touch with
pleasures rife that hints at
resurrection and ransoms
every debt! You have done
death to death, and made it
life.
O fiery lamps ignited--
whose bright resplendent
gleams light those deep
caravans where the mind
in hiding, dwelt blind
and all benighted--your
dazzling radiance streams
warm rays on the beloved
there abiding!
How tenderly you love me
and conjure in my breast--
that secret place where you
alone are treasured--how--
your sweet breath above me--
by heaven's good possessed--
with what rare lover's skill
have I been pleasured!
Composed by St. John
of the Cross,
translated by Rhina P. Espaillat.
Found in First Things magazine.
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JOURNEY TO GOD with St. John of the Cross
St. John of the Cross a Doctor of the Church and discalced Carmelite, was told in prayer that he was to serve God in an order the ancient perfection of which he was to help bring back again.
He urges us on our journey to communion with God with "ten steps of the mystical ladder of divine love."
It is found in Book Two, Chapter 19 of The Dark Night. It begins....
"We observe, then, that the steps of this ladder of love by which the soul mounts, one by one, to God, are ten..." For the rest of this teaching, click here.
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