The Night That Sings
A complete, 23,000-word portrait of Saint John of the Cross: a whole book, told with full reverence from within the tradition. Not a sample chapter. Enter your email and it is waiting in your own library here: read it, and your place is always kept.
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The cell is barely nine feet long, six feet wide — you could touch both walls if you stretched out your arms, and he does not need to stretch far to touch them. It was a storage closet before it was a prison, cut into the thickness of the monastery wall, and it has no window worth the name — only a slit high above his head, no bigger than a man's hand, through which a little light falls for perhaps half an hour each day when the sun stands at the right angle over Toledo. The rest of the time there is only the dark: the ordinary dark of a windowless room, and beneath it, patient and unhurried, another darkness that has been working on this small man for months and has not finished its work. He is thirty-five years old and he weighs almost nothing. The Carmelite habit that was made for him hangs now like a tent on a frame of sticks.
9 movements, carrying the whole life of Saint John of the Cross from beginning to enduring memory.
- Nine Months in the Dark
- A Boy Named Juan de Yepes
- The White Mantle and the Woman at the Stairs
- The Floor at Duruelo
- Taken in the Night
- The Years the Treatises Were Born
- Nothing, and Then Everything
- La Penuela, Ubeda, and the Crown After
- Come Closer to the Fire
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