aeternus

Well, we made it. After a wonderful nine day novena we have arrived at the feast day of St. John of the Cross. It was a wonderful mass today at the Carmelite Monastery and we were reminded by our celebrant throughout the mass of how our dear late Holy Father, John Paul II was so inspired by John of the Cross. It was so very nice to ponder this relationship because in witnessing the life of John Paul II we can see how he always embraced his cross and carried it for us as an offering to our Lord. His mystical union with our Heavenly Father through this heavy cross is obvious to even those who do not know of the life of mystical prayer, or suffering, or Carmelite spirituality. It was his witness in silence that spoke louder than any words, any encyclical or any speech.

So, here is a meditation for the day, it comes from the intercessions in the Morning Prayer of the Carmelite Breviary:

Sole Word of the Father, silently uttered through all eternity, and in the fullness of time received into the Virgin’s womb; may we hear your words today in the depths of our hearts, and show their effect in our actions.

This photograph is from a recent hiking adventure with the children. We made this little ring of rocks on the lake beach.