Reminder to all Secular Carmelites: Today is a day of fast and abstinence in preparation for the feast day of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel tomorrow-July 16
The death of St. John of the Cross
An excerpt from The Science of the Cross
by Edith Stein
Between nine and ten o'clock that evening, when at the wish of the saint most had gone to rest, Brother Francisco Garcia had come to the head end of the bed to pray his rosary. As he was praying, the thought occurred to him that perhaps he might be able to have the joy of seeing something of what the saint beheld. While the psalms were being recited by the fathers, he suddenly saw a globe of light begin to shine between the ceiling of the cell and the foot end of the bed. It was so brilliant that it dimmed the fourteen of fifteen lamps of the friars and the five candles on the altar. As the saint expired without anyone noticing it, Brother Diego was holding him up in his arms. And he suddenly saw a great brightness over the bed. "It shone like the sun and moon, the lights on the altar and the two wax candles in the cell were covered as by a cloud and seemed to give no more light." Only then did Diego notice that the saint in his arms was lifeless. "Our Father went to heaven with that light," he told those present. Then when he and P. Francisco and Brother Mateo prepared the saint's body for burial a most sweet perfume emanated from it.
Peace be with you!
Rosemarie, OCDS
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