Visiting with St John of the Cross (Psalm 139 and Psalm 42)
On Tuesday we set out for Segovia, to the Monastery of St John of the Cross, where his body rests and which is one of the few houses remaining where he lived. It also quite beautifully contains a hermitage he built in the garden of the monastery. As we set out for the top of the garden someone stopped Fr Matt saying we couldn't simply scamper about on our own because something could happen (falling off a ledge I think was the fear) and so he appointed Fr Matt as a personal supervisor! We didn't find out until later about his new 'position' as a wise father he had watched us wandered off into the garden in small groups finding our way to the hermitage without saying a word. The views from the garden are quite beautiful looking out onto the valley and the hill on which the city centre of Segovia was built. A certain peaceful silence reigns over it all, you would never think there is a road at the bottom of this hill. We then had mass at the tomb of John of the Cross insid...