mystics – NZ Catholic Newspaper https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Sun, 04 Mar 2018 22:42:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4 Late priest has written well about 20 great mystics https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2016/05/31/late-priest-written-well-20-great-mystics/ https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2016/05/31/late-priest-written-well-20-great-mystics/#respond Tue, 31 May 2016 02:00:50 +0000 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=12882 AN INNER MUSIC — Living a life in God by Craig Larkin, SM (Fitzbeck Publishing, 2016; available from good bookshops, or the Society of Mary); $35. Reviewed by LYNDSAY FREER.  In this most beautifully presented and illustrated little book, Marist priest Craig Larkin distils the insights of 20 great mystics and saints over the ages. He does so with a clarity

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]]> https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2016/05/31/late-priest-written-well-20-great-mystics/feed/ 0 What we give, we shall receive https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2012/01/17/what-we-give-we-shall-receive/ https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2012/01/17/what-we-give-we-shall-receive/#respond Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:07:19 +0000 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=3906 by JULIA DU FRESNE Why should we bother with contemplative prayer? Isn’t it a bit weird? It’s all very well for monks and nuns and mystics like John of the Cross — but is he actually for real? They say he’s dangerous. Negative. Pre-Vatican II. These aspersions are cast, sometimes by priests, not just on

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