Dark Night of The Soul by St. John of The Cross

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This is  the sequel to Ascent of Mount Carmel by St. John of The Cross. St. John continues to describe the dark night in this sequel. Download the Dark Night of The Soul PDF for free from the above download link. The PDF has 96 pages.

Preface to Dark Night of The Soul

Somewhat reluctantly, out of respect for a venerable tradition, we publish the Dark Night as a separate treatise, though in reality it is a continuation of the Ascent of Mount Carmel and fulfils the undertakings given in it. And the second night, or purification, pertains to those who are already proficient, occurring at the time when God desires to bring them to the state of union with God. And this latter night is a more obscure and dark and terrible purgation.

Synopsis of Dark Night of The Soul

In his three earlier books he has written of the Active Night, of Sense and of Spirit; he now proposes to deal with the Passive Night, in the same order. He has already taught us how we are to deny and purify ourselves with the ordinary help of grace, in order to prepare our senses and faculties for union with God through love. He now proceeds to explain, with an arresting freshness, how these same senses and faculties are purged and purified by God with a view to the same end—that of union.

The combined description of the two nights completes the presentation of active and passive purgation, to which the Saint limits himself in these treatises, although the subject of the stanzas which he is glossing is a much wider one, comprising the whole of the mystical life and ending only with the Divine embraces of the soul transformed in God through love.

The Active Night has left the senses and faculties well prepared, though not completely prepared, for the reception of Divine influences and illuminations in greater abundance than before. The Saint here postulates a principle of dogmatic theology—that by himself, and with the ordinary aid of grace, man cannot attain to that degree of purgation which is essential to his transformation in God. He needs Divine aid more abundantly.

‘However greatly the soul itself labours,’ writes the Saint, ‘it cannot actively purify itself so as to be in the least degree prepared for the Divine union of perfection of love, if God takes not its hand and purges it not in that dark fire.’

The Passive Nights, in which it is God Who accomplishes the purgation, are based upon this incapacity. Souls ‘begin to enter’ this dark night when God draws them forth from the state of beginners—which is the state of those that meditate on the spiritual road—and begins to set them in the state of progressives—which is that of those who are already contemplatives—to the end that, after passing through it, they may arrive at the state of the perfect, which is that of the Divine union of the soul with God.

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The List of 100 Prayers

1. Praying with others across the world
2. When the thought of you wakens in us
3. Christ our Morning Star
4. Come, Holy Spirit
5. At the rising of your sun
6. Prayer of St Columba
7. I will be busy
8. Prayer of a Breton fisherman
9. Close to me
10. The Grail Prayer
11. Praying the offering of self
12. Knowing me better
13. From ‘St Patrick’s Breastplate’
14. Seeing and loving in others what you see and love in them
15. Prayer of St Anselm
16. Burn up the dross
17. Ablaze with the fire of your Spirit
18. That the Gospel may be ‘written’ in me
19. The living heritage of our faith
20. Respecting one another
21. May our ‘way of looking’ become more like yours
22. Open my eyes and ears
23. To recognise in others
24. Together as brothers and sisters
25. Appreciating what we have in common with others
26. You are beside me
27. Sarum Prayer
28. God in my daily life
29. Judging or valuing others
30. Christ be behind me
31. Breathing deeply in faith
32. The Jesus Prayer
33. Healing our memories
34. Choosing life rather than death
35. Acceptance and forgiveness in the scriptures
36. Growing closer to you who are love
37. Psalm 23
38. My choices and commitment
39. Negativity, forgiveness, and resisting evil
40. “Do not kill” – and attention to the small things in life
41. Respect for all life
42. Psalm 139
43. Growing in wonder
44. The Canticle of Creation
45. Psalm 8
46. Psalm 104
47. Justice and Peace and the care of creation
48. Injustice and my own attitude
49. God’s love and our concern
50. A prayer of Pope Paul VI
51. Hear my voice, Lord
52. Giving praise because they do what they were created to do
53. Living simply
54. Hunger and justice
55. Deep compassion
56. My small sacrifice
57. A prayer of St Augustine
58. A prayer of St Thomas More
59. A prayer of Mother Teresa
60. Prayer of Peace
61. The Clown’s Prayer
62. Choices in good times and in difficult times
63. Doing the little and the great things
64. Balance in my life
65. In busy days of noise and action
66. Amidst difficulties; breaking the cycle of hatred and bitterness
67. Christ be below me
68. My own difficulties to lead me to be sensitive to others
69. A prayer of William Penn
70. The Serenity Prayer
71. To give and not to count the cost
72. A prayer of the Kikuyu, Kenya
73. The Way, the Truth and the Life
74. Courage to accompany you, Lord
75. Signing with the cross
76. Day by day
77. Prayer of Charles de Foucauld
78. Transform, Lord, my weakness and poverty
79. An evening prayer
80. Christ in my sleeping
81. Till the shades lengthen
82. The constancy of your faithfulness
83. Knowing, loving and serving you
84. Emptying into eternal life
85. Take, Lord
86. The grasp of your hand in my failure
87. Reflecting on growing older as a new year begins
88. Those who are sick, afraid, worried
89. The one you love is ill
90. Sick, hungry, thirsty and needy
91. Patience and strength in sickness and in health
92. Those very ill
93. Watch, Lord, with those in need
94. The Last Words of St Teresa of Avila
95. A Song of Farewell
96. For someone who has died
97. Lord, welcome those who have died
98. For the deceased and those who mourn
99. For those who mourn
100. The Angelus

Most of these prayers appear in ‘Walk In My Presence’, a book of prayer services of themed readings and prayers, by Nicholas Hutchinson FSC - Matthew James Publishing. The remaining prayers are to be found in ‘Lord, Teach us to Pray’ by the same author and publisher.

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