Wednesday, 14/11/07 - St John of the Cross

Today is the Feast of St John of the Cross. It always reminds me of the famous Dali painting which hangs in the Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery, Glasgow, now the most visited venue in the country, even beating Edinburgh Castle and Culzean Castle. John was a Priest and Teacher of the Faith. I often wonder what such people were like. The nearest analogy is someone we all know about, and that is Mother Theresa of Calcutta and her nuns in Glasgow. She used to send her nuns to Third World countries to nurse the sick and dying on the streets. When Thatcher closed down all the Local Authority Hostels for the homeless, the homeless were ousted onto the streets throughout the UK. 'Cardboard cities' sprang up and rough sleepers became the norm, to the shame of the UK. Mother Theresa announced that we also are now of Third World status and so her Communities developed. I was privileged to work with one of her nuns in Glasgow and visited the Community House in Glasgow.