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I give myself as your spouse for ever
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On Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time our church invites us to reflect on a passage from the book of the prophet Hosea (2: 4a, 10: 25) entitled “The punishment and future restoration of the Lord’s bride”. Our treasure, which follows, is from a Spiritual Canticle by Saint John of the Cross, priest.
John of the Cross (1542-1591) was one of the greatest Christian mystics and Spanish poets, doctor of the church, reformer of Spanish monasticism, and cofounder of the contemplative order of Discalced Carmelites. He is best known for reforming his order together with Saint Teresa of Avila, and for writing the classic spiritual treatise “The Dark Night of the Soul.”
The Spiritual Canticleis one of the poetic works of the Spanish mystical poet Saint John of the Cross. In the Spiritual Canticle, John tries to explain the mystical process that follows the soul until it reaches its union with God. In order to achieve this, he uses an allegory: the search of (for?) the husband (Christ) by the wife (the human soul). The wife feels wounded by love, and this makes it to start the search of the Beloved; the soul asks everywhere for him in despair until they finally get together in the solitude of the garden (Paradise).
In relation to "the realities and experiences of this world", John teaches that all the goodness present in them "is present in God eminently and infinitely, or more properly, in each of these sublime realities is God".
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