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“Be it done to me according to your word.” So it was for Mary, so it can be for us who wait in silent prayer seemingly unable to do anything to change our circumstances.
St. Francis used prayer as his compass. His brothers followed his example.
The bedrock of St. Francis’ theology is the foundation under which his friar-brothers walk today.
There are times when the interior journey is impeded by the refusal or inability to make an external journey.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux teaches us that Christian mysticism is not an esoteric branch of theology or something separate from the gospel life.
In John, as in all mystics, to be pure and completely open before God is the purpose of the dark night.
Some will see in Catherine of Siena every sign of psychosis: the split personality, hearing voices, demonic visions, and a mystical marriage. The signs, to be sure, are there.
