In our 2021 Novena to Saint John of the Cross, we will journey along the path of self-denial and love of the cross as he did with one goal in mind: to grow in the union of love with God who is Love.
St. John of the Cross Novena 2021: Introduction
Advent II, 2021 — Vision
And if I rejoice, Lord, in the hope of seeing you, yet seeing I can lose you doubles my sorrow. Living in such fear and hoping as I hope, I die because I do not die.
St. John of the Cross Novena 2021 – Day 2
In the Gospel, Jesus describes a desperate situation and asks his disciples: “What would you do?” St. John of the Cross answers, describing the wounded heart of Christ, the Good Shepherd.
Crispin Rope – RIP — Celebrating Margaret Rope – stained glass-artist
When Crispin Rope, the philanthropist and intellectual, died earlier this year, we lost the last close relative of Sister Margaret Rope, O.C.D.
Quote of the day, 4 December: St. Teresa of Avila
This one friar who is so great a servant of God is so weak from all that he has suffered that I fear for his life
St. John of the Cross Novena 2021: Day 1
"[I]t should be understood that people ought not rejoice except in walking along the path that leads to life and in doing works with charity."
Quote of the day, 3 December: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
The holy time of Advent is here; it seems to me that it is very especially the season of interior souls; in the silence of prayer, let us listen to Him.
Quote of the day, 2 December: Blessed Marie-Eugène
Any attempt to arrive at a mysticism without dogma is contrary to the doctrine of Saint John of the Cross and to the very nature of contemplation.
Quote of the day, 1 December: Jessica Powers
Come is the love song of our race and Come our basic word of individual wooing. It lifts audacious arms of lowliness to majesty's most amiable undoing, to Godhood fleshed and cradled and made least.
Quote of the day, 30 November: St. Thérèse of Lisieux
I have the vocation to be an Apostle... I would like to travel all over the world to preach your name and plant your glorious Cross on the soil of the unbelievers
Quote of the day, 29 November: St. Teresa of Avila
"...he must not turn his back upon the desire to die for God and suffer martyrdom"
Quote of the day, 28 November: St. Teresa of Avila
On the First Sunday of Advent, 28 November 1568, Fray Antonio de Heredia and St. John of the Cross began to observe the "Primitive Rule" of Pope Innocent IV in Duruelo, Spain. St Teresa describes their convent.
Advent I, 2021 — Promise
If I spoke before, it was to promise Christ. If they questioned me, their inquiries were related to their petitions and longings for Christ in whom they were to obtain every good.
29 November: Blesseds Denis of the Nativity and Redemptus of the Cross
Denis of the Nativity, a priest, and the lay brother Redemptus of the Cross were sent to Indonesia where they received the martyr's crown on November 29, 1638.
Quote of the day, 27 November: St. Teresa of Avila
Fray Antonio de Heredia and Fray José de Cristo left for Duruelo on 27 November 1568 to begin the Teresian Reform for men on the next day, the First Sunday of Advent, 28 November.
Quote of the day, 26 November: St. Raphael Kalinowski
For all those who worked for the love of God and love of neighbor... may the merciful God reward them with his crown of glory...
Quote of the day, 25 November: St. John Paul II
Today we dare to introduce to the world this cloistered religious who led a "life hidden with Christ in God" because she is a witness who is bursting with the joy that is rooted and grounded in love.
Quote of the day, 24 November: St. Teresa of Avila
"I remember that when my mother died I was twelve years old or a little less." Doña Beatriz Ahumada made her last will and testament on 24 November 1528.
Quote of the day, 23 November: St. Teresa of the Andes
To the filial promises of her loving children of Chile, the Virgin Queen answered with this single word, “Independence” and with it, she won their hearts forever.
Quote of the day, 22 November, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity
I think that the “new song” which will most charm and captivate my God is that of a soul stripped and freed from self, one in whom He can reflect all that He is, and do all that He wills.
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