Healed by Love: Contemplation as a Path of Healing According to St. John of the Cross

by Daniel Chowning

Overview

Find healing through the path of contemplative prayer, which is God’s self-communication in love and awakens within us our own need for transformation.
 
God has planted in our hearts an insatiable longing to love and be loved, that is, to love God, others, and creation with the very love of God. We know, however, from our human experience, that we fail to love as we desire with all our hearts. In Healed by Love, Carmelite Friar Daniel Chowning urges those in need of healing to seek refuge in the spiritual doctrine of St. John of the Cross.
 
The more we grow in love, the healthier we become. The doctrine of St. John of the Cross is one of healing and transformation of the human person. For him, the path of contemplation, which is God’s self-communicating love, is a journey of purification, healing, and transformation at the deepest root of our being where we can love God, others, and creation according to God’s original plan for us and grow toward the fullness of who God created us to be. In Healed by Love, those suffering in body and spirit may find comfort through the teaching of St. John of the Cross and the path of contemplative prayer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798400800122
Publisher:	Liturgical Press
Publication date:	03/12/2025
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.64(w) x 8.44(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

Daniel Chowning, OCD, is a member and present provincial of the Washington Province of the Discalced Carmelite Friars and resides at the National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians in Hubertus, Wisconsin.  He completed his theological studies at the Catholic University of America, and continued specialization in Carmelite studies in Spain at the Teresian Sanjuanist Center in Avila and at the University of Salamanca. He is a member of the Institute of Carmelite Studies. He has served his province in formation ministry as novice director and preached retreats extensively in the United States and in Europe.

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction   1
     Chapter 1
St. John of the Cross as Healing Minister   9
     Chapter 2
Created for Love   27
     Chapter 3
The Pathology of the Soul   53
     Chapter 4
A Dysfunctional Manner of Loving   73
     Chapter 5
The Path of Healing: Jesus the Divine Physician   107
     Chapter 6
The Divine Therapy   119
     Chapter 7
Sitting in the Fire   143
     Chapter 8
The Theological Life: A Path of Healing   163 
     Chapter 9
Hope: A Green Coat of Mail   179
     Chapter 10
Red Toga of Charity   189
     Chapter 11
Healed by Love   199
     Conclusion
Contemplative Love   219

Editorial Reviews

"I am very happy with the publication of this timely, necessary, and urgently needed book. A magnificent work by my brother and friend Daniel Chowning, who not only offers a wise and profound reflection on the healing power of contemplation in John of the Cross, but does so as the fruit of a lifetime of experience and as an authentic and faithful witness with his life to what his writing conveys. It is a very necessary and recommendable reading in order to heal the wounds of our times with the most effective medicine distilled in the writings of John of the Cross: contemplation as a way to learn to love and to let oneself be loved."
Father Miguel Márquez, Superior General of the Discalced Carmelite Order
 

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