'May your tears of recollection be weapons in your fight for glory'
so says Osuna in the Tenth treatise of the Third Alphabet of Spiritual Recollection
The spiritual wisdom of weeping lies in the soul gradually orientating towards the fullness of grace - in an inner attitude of spiritual yearning . It is this spiritual mourning that moves the spiritual journey along - and the fruit of this mourning is joy. What is sown in tears we reap in joy.
Spiritual mourning is linked to the rite of annointing - with sacred oil that is a symbol for the flowing of grace for healing, nourishment , as a sign or mark of a particular calling or as a sign for the passage of dying and death . Osuna reminds us - the soul enters the world weeping for joy and we leave the world weeping for joy.
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