John Donne - RLJOD
by Br Robert Lentz OFM
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John Donne - RLJOD
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Br Robert Lentz OFM
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Painting - 22k Gold & Acrylic
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John Donne is one of the great mystics of the Anglican Church. He was born into a Roman Catholic family, related to Sir Thomas More. After studying at Oxford and Cambridge, he entered the civil service and looked forward to a promising career. He married his patron’s daughter without permission, however, and was dismissed from his post. For ten years he and his wife lived in poverty. During this time he developed a deep spirituality which eventually led him to ordination as a priest in the Church of England. From 1621 until his death ten years later, he was dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral of London.
John Donne helped bridge the Middle Ages and the modern world. Baconian science and modern astronomy were exploding medieval cosmology. Many people felt Christianity was no longer a viable spiritual path. John resisted the reductionist tendencies of his day, maintaining that reality would be robbed of its significance if it were to lose its transcendental dimension.
The years before his ordination convinced him that we live within the mystery of God. Each human being is called to be a living sacrament of Christ to the world, and in this icon Christ radiates from John’s heart in a fiery orb. As we face the even greater changes in our culture, John reminds us that Christ fills us and holds the world in being. All of life, he tells us, must be transfigured in Christ.
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