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Last Saturday, the Carmelite Carmelite Fathers of Caravaca de la Cruz presented in Santiago de la Espada (Jaén) the "Guide to the Way of Saint John of the Cross, a path to the interior."
This Way intends to traverse and make present the figure and the message of the famous poet and father of the mystic, through the roads that, at the end of the 16th century he himself toured several times, uniting the populations of Beas de Segura and Caravaca de the Cross, through Ovens, Pontones, Santiago de la Espada, Nerpio and Sabinar (Moratalla).
To the presentation came the councilors and pastors of these localities, as well as a group of people who in the last two years have made the Way of St. John of the Cross with the Carmelites.
Fray Pascual Gil Almela, prior of the Convent of Our Lady of Carmel, Carmelite Barefoot Fathers, assures us that "with this guide you want to ensure and clarify the meaning and identity of this path, which can be carried out in one direction or another, that the saint was doing, his nature being the inner search with the motto that St. John of the Cross reminds us: Without another light and guide but the one that in the heart burned.
The Way of San Juan de la Cruz passes from Beas de Segura to Caravaca de la Cruz because on several occasions San Juan de la Cruz "was sent by St. Teresa of Jesus to attend the nuns of the foundations of Beas and Caravaca.
In Caravaca it would also found the present convent of religious.
The distance, today, unites us ", emphasizes Gil Almela.
The initiative, part of the community of Carmelitas Descalzos de Caravaca de la Cruz, took place at the end of 2015 and two successful calls have been made in the following years, counting with the support of the town councils, parish priests and the reception of the people of the different populations.
The town councils mentioned are involved in the tasks of beaconing, dissemination and enhancement of this Way of San Juan de la Cruz, between Caravaca de la Cruz and Beas de Segura, "foreseeing a promising future for the people who travel and places where there are already points of special tourist interest, landscape and cultural, "explains the Carmelite.
Source: Obispado de Cartagena
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