14/12/2024
Hoogfeest van Jan van het Kruis.
Voor allen zalig feest en dank aan God voor zo'n grote heilige in onze Orde.
A blessed feast of our father saint John of the Cross.
From The Spiritual Canticle:
"Saint Paul says: The Son of God is the splendor of his glory
and the image of his substance. It should be known that only with
this figure, his Son, did God look at all things, that is he
communicated to them their natural being and many natural
graces and gifts, and made them complete and perfect, as is said
in Genesis: God looked at all things that he made, and they were
very good. To look and behold that they were very good was to
make them very good in the Word, his Son.
Not only by looking at them did he communicate natural
being and graces, as we said, but also with this image of his Son
alone, he clothed them in beauty by imparting to them
supernatural being. This he did when he became man and
elevated human nature in the beauty of God and consequently all
creatures, since in human nature he was united with them all.
Accordingly, the Son of God proclaimed: If I be lifted up
from the earth, I will elevate all things to me. And in this
elevation of all things through the incarnation of his Son and
through the glory of his resurrection according to the flesh, the
Father did not merely beautify creatures partially, but rather we
can say, clothed them wholly in beauty and dignity."