The Christian mystic

A Christian will undoubtedly experience moments in their secret or mystical journey, when they will come to know something of the height and depths, and the length and breadth of God's love. They may even come to experience what it means to be lifted up into what St. Paul calls the seventh heaven. It will certainly entail the Cross, for Jesus made it quite clear that unless we take up our daily cross we cannot be his disciples. All who pursue this spiritual journey will come to experience joy and sorrow, the agony as well as the ecstasy.

But none of these experiences define the mystic. What does define a Christian mystic is the fundamental and single-minded commitment in faith, to pursue above all and everything else, the hidden journey into the mystery of Christ...and in, with and through him, to participate personally in God's plan to unite everyone with himself. This journey involves consecrating every moment of every day to God, not just for oneself, but for others too, participating in God's plan to unite the whole of creation in the love that continually flows between the Father and the Son, to eternity. In the early Church this journey was undertaken by all. It defined what it meant to be a Christian. There was no place for what is called today, a nominal Christian.