He wants us to understand first of all that Union must be God’s Way and not ours-something which sounds simple and would be if we, humans, trying to be so clever, looking for shortcuts and ‘methods’, were not constantly getting in the way of the Almighty. John’s point in writing AoMC is to teach the path of Union with God. So long as one is a serious lover of Christ Jesus, this book can be for you. Yet it is my hope to encourage those of us ‘little souls’ not to avoid Ascent of Mount Carmel out of fear or humility. There is so much here one could devote an entire lifetime just to studying this work by the ‘Mystical Doctor’-his title as one of the 36 Doctors of the Catholic Church-quite apart from all the rest of his major and minor writings.īeing neither scholar nor saintly, this is not a review of such high caliber. John’s four masterpieces*, it is probably the second best known after Dark Night of the Soul. Have I thus any mastery of the text? No, just much time and effort.Īugust 27, 2020: This, my second read of Ascent of Mount Carmel, was much richer than my first experience with it. My own review says I read this only twice, but I know for sure that this will be at least my fourth read of this text, not to mention all the other times I have read sections for various reasons.
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