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It’s the memorial of St. John of the Cross<\/strong><\/a>, one of my favorite spiritual writers of all time. (Doesn’t sound very detached, does it? Still working on that nada<\/strong><\/a><\/em> doctrine.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve created a multimedia retreat with Saint John of the Cross<\/a> <\/strong>— and his Sayings of Light and Love<\/em> — here<\/a><\/strong>. It works well on mobile devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, I wrote a series of posts on John of the Cross during Lent of 2004. Here are the links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lenten retreat starts<\/strong><\/a>

Prologue to The Dark Night<\/strong><\/a>

Why is the dark night necessary?<\/strong><\/a>

pride<\/strong><\/a>

avarice<\/strong><\/a>

lust<\/strong><\/a>

anger<\/strong><\/a>

gluttony<\/strong><\/a>

envy and sloth<\/strong><\/a>

one dark night…<\/strong><\/a>

discernment of the night of the senses<\/strong><\/a>

how to respond to being placed in the dark night<\/strong><\/a>

fired with love’s urgent longings<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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