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Happy Feast Day St. John of the Cross!

For John of the Cross, one of the clearest signs of the authenticity of the soul's experience of God is that it does refuse to suffer. Rather it is animated to suffer for the one who it loves so ardently. For John, suffering is the best form of imitating Christ.

The Blessed Trinity inhabits the soul by divinely illumining the intellect with the Wisdom of the Son, delighting its will in the Holy Spirit, and absorbing it powerfully and mightily in the unfathomed embrace of the Father’s sweetness.