It’s the memorial of St. John of the Cross, one of my favorite spiritual writers of all time. (Doesn’t sound very detached, does it? Still working on that nada doctrine.)
I’ve created a multimedia retreat with Saint John of the Cross — and his Sayings of Light and Love — here. It works well on mobile devices.
Also, I wrote a series of posts on John of the Cross during Lent of 2004. Here are the links:
Lenten retreat starts
Prologue to The Dark Night
Why is the dark night necessary?
pride
avarice
lust
anger
gluttony
envy and sloth
one dark night…
discernment of the night of the senses
how to respond to being placed in the dark night
fired with love’s urgent longings