| Author Quoted | John of the Cross |
| Title Quoted | Cántico espiritual / Saint John of the Cross ; según el ms. de las Madres carmelitas de Jaen ; ed. y notas de M. Martínez Burgos |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1949/12/06 |
| Imprint | Madrid : Espasa-Calpe. 1936 |
| Quotation | There is supposed to be a special group coming to the vault after Benediction on Sundays and Feasts to talk about special points. That means mostly St. John of the Cross, as far as I am concerned. I am going through The Spiritual Canticle again in Spanish out behind the horse barn in a little corner behind the cedars where I can sit among the blackberry bushes out of the wind. It is still warm enough to sit out there even in summer clothes. I feel like learning snatches of St. John's Spanish by heartjust snatches. It is inviting and easy. Phrases cling to you without your making half an effort to grasp them. |
| Quotation Source | Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 2, 1941-1952.; Edited by Jonathan Montaldo. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 375 |
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