The Hiding Place of the Beloved - St. John of the Cross /w Fr. Donald Haggerty - Discerning Hearts 

One day as I was seeking this union with the Lord after experiencing a great trial , I entered a Catholic bookstore looking for some comfort some loving thing to read . All of a sudden a book fell off the shelves all by itself, onto the floor, it was called " JOHN OF THE CROSS " . I did'nt want even to pick it up because it had the word CROSS and I certainly did not want more suffering . But i did pick it up and cracked it open , there I saw the beautiful words of the Flame of love and I was smitten ! John is the highest when it comes to what is written about love and union . I read it all and drank it in . But there is still higher than John , I was not satisfied until one day God introduced me to the work of Luisa Picaretta " Book of heaven . The Call to the Creature to return to the Order, to the Place, to the purpose for which It was created by God . " There my soul soared and was happy ! How wonderful is our Catholic Church . God's will be done on earth as in Heaven .

I have finally found Catholic contemplative praying m very similar to non dual teaching. There are many saints in non dual teachings although non catholic by all means believing in Jesus Christ being gods. I feel they brought me back to Catholic mysticism.

Thank you ❤ for sharing this

My one and only desire was to know Luke 17:21 and Psalm 46:10 and this was my unwaveringly Faith consistently on a daily basis starting back in the late eighties. It was through purgation, pain, emptiness and loss of self that St. John of the cross, Theresa of Avila, the Cloud of unknowing and Meister Eckhart unknowingly appeared as Savior in my life. The gain I have received is far greater than the pain. ❤

This was an excellent discussion! I'm going to listen to the whole series of these talks. I've purchased the book and I'm excited to read it 🙂

Makes me think of the tears, absense, and sense of longing of St. Mary Magdalene at the empty tomb...but He was right there all the while.

Looking for the hidden God that inhabits my soul...what a task we have infront of us. Thank you for your guidance and light.

Is my longing for God, God's longing for me?

Thank you for sharing

St John of the Cross Invitation to all to walk a path day by day year by year to union with God the path that will cross us in the threshold of prayer and the interior life into contemplative graces in our life a necessity onto a path to greater union with God to cross in prayer to a threshold of deeper water which contemplative graces begin

Beautiful ❤

St John of the cross. Dark night of the soul

My fav. Saint

I wrestle with mysticism, since it seems it is so easy (and has been so easy over the centuries) to drift right into Neoplatonistic - or outright Gnostic - nebulous mysticism. How to find that fine line of life, and keep from veering off into self-absorption disguised as spirituality? Seems such a minefield....