THE

CATHOLIC WORLD.


VOL. XXIV., No. 140.—NOVEMBER, 1876.


Copyright: Rev. I. T. Hecker. 1877.

THOUGHTS ON MYSTICAL THEOLOGY.

St. John of the Cross, in commenting on these two lines of the thirty-ninth stanza of his Spiritual Canticle:

“The grove and its beauty

In the serene night,”