Saint John of the Cross: Master of Contemplation Serenity and the people and places

and the people and places of the biblical world

Author:  Susan Tassone

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making it especially well suited for larger liturgical celebrations and solemnities

have found both peace and purpose

Saint John of the Cross: Master of Contemplation Serenity and the people and placesSaint John of the Cross is the Church's premier teacher on contemplative prayer. Catholic tradition even calls him the Mystical Doctor. The sixteenth century Carmelite priest not only wrote four massive treatises on the spiritual life, along with some of the finest poetry in the Spanish language, but also worked alongside Teresa of vila in renewing the Carmelite order. Thrse of Lisieux claimed she found no other spiritual reading that could satisfy