Ascent Of Mount Carmel Reflections

This new release (June 2013) has already been acclaimed as one of the best contemporary contributions on the thought and teaching of St. John of the Cross. Just
three months after publication, it has been praised by spiritual directors and study/prayer groups as a “must read” for serious spiritual seekers, and professors of Catholic spirituality and mystical theology have adopted it for course texts. St. John of the Cross is one of
Christianity’s greatest poets and mystics. Nevertheless, his subject matter and writing style, coupled with his use of 16th-century Scholastic terminology, can make his prose difficult to
understand and intimidating. Readers of The Ascent of Mount Carmel: Reflections will thank Father Marc Foley for making John’s thought accessible and refreshingly contemporary. The author shares with contemporary spiritual seeks his seasoned wisdom, gleaned from years of reading and teaching John of the Cross. He deftly weaves together insights from psychology, theology and literature to make St. John’s The Ascent of Mount
Carmel both understandable and relevant to daily life.