Confession and Self-Examination: John of the Cross: Dark Night of the Soul
Teaching on Confession and Self-Examination from John of the Cross: John of the Cross: Dark Night of the Soul
This is a spiritual discipline on dark night and purification, drawing on Job 23:8-10, Isaiah 50:10 and Psalm 88:1-2.
John of the Cross (d. 1591) described a profound form of self-examination that comes not from our own effort but from God's direct action upon the soul. In "The Dark Night of the Soul," he wrote: "God perceives the imperfections within us, and because of his love for us, urges us to grow up. His love is not content to leave us in our weakness, and for this reason he takes us into a dark night."…
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