Notes
Notes
Chapter 1: Hear His Voice
“One dark night, fired with love’s urgent longings”: John of the Cross, The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, trans. Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez, rev. ed. (Washington, D.C.: ICS Publications, 1991), p. 358.
“O Lord, open thou our lips”: The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments 1662 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 19.
“O come, let us sing unto the Lord”: Winfred Douglas, ed., The Monastic Diurnal (London: Oxford University Press, 1932, 1963), p. 82*.
“There are those who always fast to read the Gospel”: Matthew the Poor (Matta el-Meskeen), The Community of Love (New York: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1984), p. 37.
“This is what I want!”: Francis of Assisi, Francis of Assisi: Early Documents, vol. 1: The Saint, ed. Regis J. Armstrong et al. (New York: New City Press, 1999), pp. 201-2.
“follow the teaching and footprints of our Lord Jesus Christ”: Ibid., pp. 63-64.
“Pilgrim, swept by storms and weary”: Alan Gaunt and Alan Luff, Hymns and Letters: Ann Griffiths (London: Stainer & Bell, 1999), p. 9.
Chapter 2: Learning to Read Again
“I am the captain of my soul”: W. E. Henley, “Invictus,” in The Golden Treasury, ed. Francis Palgrave (London: Oxford University Press, 1941), p. 476.
Chapter 4: The Yearning of God
“for example of life and instruction of manners”: article 6 of the Thirty-Nine Articles in the Church of England, The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments 1662 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 613.
“Listen carefully, my son, to the master’s instructions”: RB 1980: The Rule of St. Benedict in Latin and English with Notes, ed. Timothy Fry et al. (Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 1981), p. 157.
Chapter 5: My Beloved Speaks
“He also stands behind the wall”: Bernard of Clairvaux, Bernard of Clairvaux: On the Song of Songs, trans. Kilian Walsh and Irene Edmonds (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian, 1979), 3:89-90.
“He says, ‘Arise, make haste, my love, my dove, my beautiful one’ ”: Ibid., p. 97.
Chapter 7: Anatomy of the Soul
animi extensio in Deum per amoris desiderium: Jean Gerson, cited in William Ralph Inge, Christian Mysticism (London: Methuen, 1899), p. 335. Inge attributes the saying to Bonaventure (who would certainly have found it congenial), but it appears to be original to Gerson.
Chapter 8: Listen!
“The spot was by a powerful stream called the Rie”: Walter Daniel, Walter Daniel: The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx, trans. F. M. Powicke (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian, 1954), p. 98.
“Listen carefully, my son, to the master’s instructions”: RB 1980: The Rule of St. Benedict in Latin and English with Notes, ed. Timothy Fry et al. (Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 1981), p. 157.
“All guests who present themselves are to be welcomed as Christ”: Ibid., p. 255.
“In several books I found different methods to approach God”: Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God, trans. Salvatore Sciurba (Washington, D.C.: ICS Publications), p. 75.
Chapter 9: Living in the Gospel
“exactly as one friend speaks to another”: Ignatius Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, trans. Louis J. Puhl (Chicago: Loyola Press, 1951), p. 28.
Chapter 10: The Book of Christ
“remember that God speaks only a single word”: Augustine of Hippo, Ennartiones in Psalmos, In Psalmum CIII, 4.1, in Patrologia Latina 37, ed. J. P. Migne (Paris: Migne, 1845), col. 1378. My translation. Augustine’s original reads: “Meminit . . . cum sit unus sermo Dei in Scripturis omnibus dilatatus, et per multa ora sanctorum unum Verbum sonet, quod cum sit in principio Deus apud Deum, ibi no habet syllabas.”
“All sacred Scripture is but one book”: Hugh of St. Victor, De Arca Noe 2.8, quoted in Catechism of the Catholic Church, par. 134 (New York: Doubleday, 1995), p. 43.
Chapter 11: Sacred Reading
“Lettera gesta docet / quid credas allegoria”: Henri de Lubac, Medieval Exegesis: The Four Senses of Scripture (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1998), 1:271 n. 1. (The loose translation in this text is mine.)
“One day when I was busy working with my hands”: Guigo II, Guigo II: The Ladder of Monks and Twelve Meditations, ed. Edmund Colledge and James Walsh (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 1979), pp. 67-68.
“the careful study of the Scriptures”: Ibid., p. 68.
“the foundation; it provides the subject matter”: Ibid., p. 79.
“puts food whole into the mouth”: Ibid., p. 69.
“the busy application of the mind to seek”: Ibid., p. 68.
“prayer is the heart’s devoted turning to God”: Ibid.
“So the soul, seeing it cannot attain by itself to that sweetness”: Ibid., pp. 72-73.
“Contemplation is when the mind is in some sort lifted up”: Ibid., p. 68.
Chapter 12: The Disordered Soul
“turning away from our last end which is God”: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, I-II.77.8, resp. (Notre Dame, Ind.: Ave Maria Press, 1981), 2:940.
“discusses the root and origin of sin”: see further Aquinas, Summa Theologica, I-II.84.1, 2, pp. 962-64.
Chapter 13: A Life Desired
“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about”: C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory (New York: HarperOne, 2001), p.26.
“The soul, . . . seeing that it cannot attain by itself to that sweetness”: Guigo II, Guigo II: The Ladder of Monks and Twelve Meditations, ed. Edmund Colledge and James Walsh (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 1979), pp. 72-73.
“We cannot by direct effort make ourselves”: Richard Foster et al., eds., The Life with God Bible (New York: HarperCollins, 2005), p. xxxiv.
Chapter 14: Beyond the Bible
“Our gracious Queen”: Edward C. Ratcliff, The Coronation Service of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953), p. 39.
“Christ has no body now but yours”: see, for example, James C. Howell, Introducing Christianity: Exploring the Bible, Faith, and Life (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009), p. 151.