Wood carving of St. John of the Cross, Carmelite Sisters Motherhouse, Alhambra, CA; Photography © Carmelite Sisters

“What we need most in order to make progress is to be silent before this great God with our appetite and with our tongue, for the language he best hears is silent love.”  (St. John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church; Feastday – December 14)


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