Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

For guidance, I turned to a poem called “Dark Night of the Soul” by a sixteenth-century mystic, St. John of the Cross.

Our wounds bear the perfumed trace of divine presence.

For guidance, I turned to a poem called “Dark Night of the Soul” by a sixteenth-century mystic, St. John of the Cross.

We would learn again of God the Father and Creator who has preserved our life through the dark night and awakened us to a new day; God the Son and Savior of the World, who vanquished death and hell for us, and dwells in our midst as Victor; God the Holy Spirit who pours the bright light of God’s Word into our hearts early in the morning, driving aw

each phase of night offers sacred and healing possibilities.

Dusk calls for a new kind of nightmindedness—for personal ritual and expanded spiritual awareness to promote greater lucidity.