Nice piece on St John of the Cross. If you haven’t read his writings, three mentioned here are the main ones. I would advise reading ‘The Spiritual Canticle’ first, ‘Dark Night’ & ‘Ascent of Mt Carmel’ are heavy & tend to frighten people & turn them off St John. Read them later. https://t.co/emqilIGLLh

M: are you familiar with [writing] by John Hector St. John in 1782? no. M: nothing wrong with political writings in america? correct. M: you think Pezzola was explaining his political views in that 2.5 page doc? that's part of it. M: when you read this meet-up doc ... /211

@BrotherAugusti2 No, I can’t boil down the writings of the fathers into neat digestible chunks to convince you. You want to read them go ahead. Those that certainly would disagree with you are St Gregory of Nyssa, Maximus the Confessor, Origen, John Chrysostom, Simeon the New Theologian.