Date: April 08, 2007

Podcaster: stlocds

Episode Description:

The Sayings of Light and Love

Since, when the hour of reckoning comes, you will be sorry for not having used this time in the service of God, why do you not arrange and use it now as you would wish to have done were you dying?
If you desire that devotion to be born in your spirit and that the love of God and the desire for divine things increase, cleanse your soul of every desire, attachment, and ambition in such a way that you have to concern about anything. Just as a sick person is immediately aware of good health once the bad humor has been thrown off and a desire to eat is felt, so will you recover your health, in God, if you cure yourself as was said. Without doing this, you will not advance no matter how much you do.
Bridle your tongue and your thoughts very much, direct your affection habitually toward God, and your spirit will be divinely enkindled.
Feed not your spirit on anything but God. Cast off concern about things, and bear peace and recollection in your heart.
Keep spiritually tranquil in a loving attentiveness to God, and when it is necessary to speak, let it be with the same calm and peace.
Preserve a habitual remembrance of eternal life, recalling that those who hold themselves the lowest and poorest and least of all will enjoy the highest dominion and glory in God.
The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
Time 3:30
The Sayings of Light and Love, Prayer of a Soul taken with Love. (77, 78. 80, 81, 82, 82, 97) ICS The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, Revised Edition. Copyright 1991 by the Washington Province of Discalced Carmelite Friars, Inc. Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D. and Otilio Rodriguez, O.C.D. ICS Publications, Washington, DC