Lenten Meditation - Ash Wednesday

In a dark night
With anxious love inflamed
O happy lot!
Forth unobserved I went
My house being now at rest.
In darkness and in safety
By the secret ladder, disguised,
O happy lot!
In darkness and concealment,
My house being now at rest.

On the road to union with God the night of faith shall guide me. Faith tells us of things we have never seen, and cannot come to know by our natural senses. The light of faith is like the light of the sun which blinds our eyes because its light is stronger than our powers of sigh. So the light of faith transcends our comprehension.

- St. John of the Cross, Collected Works: Ascent of Mount Carmel, As. St. I, II; Book 11:3