O
you souls who wish to go on with so much safety and consolation, if
you knew how pleasing to God is suffering, and how much it helps in
acquiring other good things, you would never seek consolation in
anything; but you would rather look upon it as a great happiness to
bear the Cross of the Lord.
– Saint
John of the Cross
Saint
John of the Cross'
patronage: Contemplative
life, contemplatives, mystical theology, mystics, Spanish poets,
World Youth Day 2011, Segovia, Spain, and Ta’ Xbiex, Malta
