Union 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...new culture!

What is the most fully human response to these concrete signs of the presence, activity and power of the living God? 

Awe. Mystery. Wonder. 

May I be for him a new humanity in which he can renew all his mystery.

- St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

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 of the Catholic Church #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

The Complete Works
Elizabeth of the Trinity

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
The Risk of Education
Luigi Giussani

God at the Ritz
What is Christian in Christianity
The Relevance of the Stars
Cry of the Heart: On the Meaning of Suffering
Lorenzo Albacete