The Dark Night: Psychological Experience and Spiritual Reality Hymnal and the role of the

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and she who stood firmly when everyone else fled

But now that she's in Heaven

The Dark Night: Psychological Experience and Spiritual Reality Hymnal and the role of theReading St. John of the Crosss Dark Night can be daunting; living the dark experience of purification it describes can be much more so. The description of the dark nights (yes, there is more than one!) which St. John presents seems so stark and painful that one might be tempted to just close the book and stop reading. On top of that, both the process St. John describes and the language he uses can be confusing and intimidating. The language of 16th