“Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn, Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!”
Each model of Saints had brought their own mystic ways to approach God and union in God’s love by purification themselves to be holy and perfect in the eyes of God. As same as Saint John of the Cross also one of the model of mystic Saint had shown the ways to purify ourselves in ascetical manner, to purify the soul by love and mercy of God. He had contributed and handed down his model life, his writings, etc. He committed himself to be loved by God in Christ Jesus. He purified himself to be holy and had done his action in the way of love and to be loved by God. Because he had seen the true salvation that
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The atmosphere of purification which he had put all his effort from the beginning of starting until he reached the goal was the Grace of God and his totally devotion, the dark night of mystical faith, he entrusted his purification of his soul to God and mortification it. Therefore the silent of heart, the flame of love and his desire to be transformed were given joy in his heart, his life and his soul. His desire to be union with his Lover that is the Devine Love, so through this Devine Love he was transformed as he expressed Oh, night that joined Beloved with Lover, Lover transformed in the …show more content…
It is an effort of myself from the beginning as unwavering search for union with God, to find God and to find my true self. My spiritual life needs God’s grace, without God I cannot accomplish my spiritual progress, therefore I should have strong faith in God, asking God for purification of my soul, my life and my journey to come toward to God because God is the dark night of my soul, my life. So that the love of God will join me to Himself and guide me to growth day by day in spiritual way. It sometimes difficult in my footsteps and challenges but I should not be impatience, and fault. I should rely on God’s providence and totally trust in His work. Because God had loved me so much and God did not want me to be despaired. He loved me and asked me to be in response to His love, and His love is above all things. I trust in God that through my spiritual life, God had guided me from very beginning and set up the progress of my spiritual growth and lead me into union with Him, He had bestowed his Divine Love and made me union of my soul to Him. Because He is love and His love is never ending, His love is no measure for me. At every time, when I committed faults, He gave me the grace for conversion and purify my soul; He took care of me in His bosom and nurtured me with His sweet love and grace. With all these
He was working in the steaming pit of hell; day after day, week after week- until now there was not an organ of his body that did its work without pain, until the sound of ocean breaks echoes in his head day and night… and from all the unending horror of this there was a respite, a deliverance- he could drink! He could forget the pain, he could slip off the burden: he would see clearly again, he would be master of his brain, of his
... of saint because he had the strongest desire to do good for others. He exemplified great virtue and because of this a community was able to move forward.
"...had one single goal--to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow--to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought..."
The humanity of the world, and especially the humanity of Jesus Christ and his Passion and death, was the entire focus of the development of and the point of devotion in Christocentric and affective spirituality. Imagining scenes from Jesus' life on Earth and his human feelings in order to move oneself to compassion was a large part of the affective spirituality. Women of the medieval era used their femaleness as a sign of closeness to Christ, and that for Christ as "divinity is to humanity, [for women, it was] as male is to female" and the Incarnation of Christ was the "ultimate identification" (12). Women with the mentality of affective spirituality expresse\ confidence in the Incarnation in their devotion to the Eucharist, and revered "Christ's physicality, his corporality, his being-in-the-bodyness; Christ's humanity" as above all, that his humanity was his "body and blood"
"Several changes of day and night passed, and the orb of night had greatly lessened, when I began to distinguish my sensations from each other. I gradually saw plainly the clear stream that supplied me with drink, and the trees that shaded me with their foliage. I was delighted when I first discovered that a pleasant sound, which often saluted my ears, proceeded from the throats of the little winged animals who had often intercepted the light from my eyes. I began also to observe, with greater accuracy, the forms that surrounded me, and the boundaries of the radient roof of light which canopied me. Sometimes I tried to imitate the pleasant sounds of the birds, but was unable. Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me back into silence."
He describes his “torture of thirst” for this river, Passion, and so we begin to understand he is afflicted in some way with emotion. He goes on to speak in stanza seven of a different water he drank, one “that quenches all thirst:” “From a cavern not very far, Down under ground.” This different water he speaks of is death, the only water that will quench his thirst for painful passion. We begin to understand the relief that it brings him, such as that of cool water cascading down our own thirsty throat. And he describes it as not very far away; it’s as if this escape of his has always been just out of reach for him.
Beloved is actually a quintessentially American story. Its topic slavery however may not seem to be a traditional one in American literature. The novel written by Toni Morrison is an American survivor’s tale, which depicts the collective experience of slavery defined by the identity of the black community in America for years. The topic of slavery continues to be a vital part of the American consciousness today,in addition, slavery as an institution was a part of American culture as a whole until the Civil War, and its repercussions on race relations are still being felt today. The genre of the survivor's tale is one way that contemporary authors can depict and discuss this formative American experience.
From the beginning, Beloved focuses on the import of memory and history. Sethe struggles daily with the haunting legacy of slavery, in the form of her threatening memories and also in the form of her daughter’s aggressive ghost. For Sethe, the present is mostly a struggle to beat back the past, because the memories of her daughter’s death and the experiences at Sweet Home are too painful for her to recall consciously. But Sethe’s repression is problematic, because the absence of history and memory inhibits the construction of a stable identity. Even Sethe’s hard-won freedom is threatened by her inability to confront her prior life. Paul D’s arrival gives Sethe the opportunity and the impetus to finally come to terms with her painful life history.
Who Is Beloved by God? After reading the novel Beloved by Toni Morrison, many readers may find it helpful. themselves asking who Beloved really was. There are basically three answers that would satisfy this question that she is the actual baby.
Revelations of Divine Love is a 14th century masterpiece written by Julian of Norwich. This book is an account of St. Julian’s sixteen different mystical revelations in which she had encountered at a time of great suffering and illness. St. Julian focussed on the many “mysteries of Christianity.” Through her many revelations she encountered God’s vast love, the existence of evil, God’s heart for creation, the father and mother-heart of God, and the need to obey her Father in Heaven. Amongst these revelations the most powerful was the revelation of God’s love and character. Revelations of Divine Love is a wonderful source of revelation to connect a reader to the Father.
Throughout the human history there have been many saints who have lived among us. They followed Jesus’ principles and they did God’s will. One of the earliest saints was St. John, and he lived during the times of Jesus. His childhood and his date of birth are unknown, but it is well known that he was one of the best followers and students of Jesus.
Beloved is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel written by Toni Morrison and published in 1987. The story follows Sethe as she attempts to make peace with her present (for her, post Civil War America) and her past as a former slave and the atrocities she suffered at the hands of the "benevolent" Gardner family. Information given to the readers from different perspectives, multiple characters, and various time periods allows her audience to piece together the history of the family, their lives, as well as provide insight into slavery and the aftermath as a whole. The characters feel as though they discover more and more as the novel passes in time, just as history unfolds. Critically this novel is recognized as one of the greatest works on the subject of slavery's impact on the slaves, the owners, the past, and America's future. In this analysis of Beloved, the characteristics of new historicism will be used to evaluate this literary piece.
In addition to recognizing their betrayal of God, they believe that a sacred life is the ultimate victory. The speaker confesses, “Yet dearly I love you and would be loved fain.”(ln.9) The priest also desires to love God above all, “He knew now at the end there was only one thing that counted – to be a saint.”(p.210)
There are five steps to sainthood. First, the person’s local bishop investigates their life by gathering information from witnesses of their life and any writings they may have written. If the bishop finds them to be worthy of being a saint, then he submits the
During the time of Jesus, God’s and demigods were believed to have healed the sick and raised people from the dead. Some believed famous and virtuous men could calm storms, chase away pestilence, and abide by greetings as gods. Christian authors viewed the miracles of Jesus as works of love and mercy showing compassion for a sinful and suffering humanity. Each miracle involves specific teachings and they were an important component of Jesus’ divinity and the dual natures of Jesus as God and ...