Date: May 29, 2007

Podcaster: stlocds

Episode Description:

St. John of the Cross - Acsent of Mt Carmel Book One Chapter 13, 12-13

When you delay in something
you cease to rush toward the all.
For to go from the all to the all
You must deny yourself all in all.
And when you come to the possession of the all
You must posses it without wanting anything.
Because if you desire to have something in all
Your treasure in God is not purely your all.
In this nakedness, the spirit finds it quietude and rest, For in coveting nothing, nothing tires it by pulling it up and nothing oppresses it by pushing it down, because it is in the center of its humility. When it covets something, by this very fact it tires itself.

Time 2:30
Acsent of Mt Carmel Book One Chapter 13, 12-13 ICS The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, Revised Edition. Coyright 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