nion with Christ through his Bride, the Church, always leads to generation, fruitfulness and abundance. New persons...new events...new initiatives...new movements...new growth...new creativity...new beauty...new communion!
What is the most fully human response to these concrete signs of the presence, activity and power of the living God?
Awe. Mystery. Wonder!
More Resources on the Intimate Path
"Spiritual progress tends toward ever more intimate union with Christ. This union is called “mystical” because it participates in the mystery of Christ through the sacraments—“the holy mysteries”—and, in him, in the mystery of the Holy Trinity. God calls us all to this intimate union with him, even if the special graces or extraordinary signs of this mystical life are granted only to some for the sake of manifesting the gratuitous gift given to all." —Catechism #2014
The Interior Castle
Teresa of Avila
The Dark Night
John of the Cross
Jesus of Nazareth
Joseph Ratzinger
Come Be My Light
Mother Theresa of Calcutta
Handmaid of the Lord
Adrienne von Speyr
The Long Loneliness
Dorothy Day
The Jewelers Shop
John Paul II
An Introduction to the Devout Life
Francis de Sales
The Dialogue
Catherine of Siena
The Art of Praying
Romano Guardini
The Religious Sense;
The Origin of the Christian Claim; Why the Church?
Luigi Giussani