In reading St. John of the Cross’ commentary on Stanza 39 of his poem “The Spiritual Canticle,” I am being treated to the description of the glory of what is our true call and the process of deification/theosis under the guidance of the Holy Spirit …
Then I read this:
“O souls, created for these grandeurs and called to them! What are you doing? How are you spending your time? Your aims are base and your possessions miseries! O wretched blindness of your eyes! You are blind to so brilliant a light and deaf to such loud voices because you fail to discern that insofar as you seek eminence and glory you remain miserable, base, ignorant, and unworthy of so many blessings!”
