Song in My Heart
£7.50
The Spiritual Canticle of St John of the Cross for Everyone
By Elizabeth Ruth Obbard
ISBN: 9781905039401
Paperback
The future St John of the Cross was born Juan de Yepes in Fontiveros, Castile, in the year 1542. In Medina he met the woman who would change his life and give him new inspiration – the Carmelite reforming foundress, Teresa of Avila.
As often happens, the reform aroused jealousy and John was kidnapped and locked in a tiny, airless cell. Flogged, half-starved, humiliated and physically almost at death’s door, he learned to rely solely on God. It was in this prison that he consoled himself by composing the early verses of his Spiritual Canticle, beginning with the words: ‘Why have you hidden yourself, and abandoned me to my sighing, O my Beloved.’
The Spiritual Canticle was born from the heart of a man who knew that the love of God costs ‘not less than everything.’
The Commentary is of a later date, composed as a gift to his dearest friend among the nuns, Anne of Jesus.
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