“In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.”
“It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at
neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.”
From a Spiritual Canticle of St John of the Cross
We must then dig deeply in Christ. He is like a rich mine with many pockets containing treasures: however deep we dig we will never find their end or their limit. Indeed, in every pocket new seams of fresh riches are discovered on all sides.
For this reason the apostle Paul said of Christ: In him are hidden all the treasures of the wisdom and knowledge of God. The soul cannot enter into these treasures, nor attain them, unless it first crosses into and enters the thicket of suffering .. and has undergone long spiritual training.
Saint Paul therefore urges the Ephesians not to grow weary in the midst of tribulations, but to be steadfast and rooted and grounded in love, so that they may know with all the saints the breadth, the length, the height and the depth – to know what is beyond knowledge, the love of Christ .. The gate that gives entry into these riches of his wisdom is the cross
