Coming Through the Dark Night

The only way out of spiritual darkness is to go through it. What is the dark, and how do we get through it?

“It is nevertheless true that before bringing peace to a given place, He makes war with it,"
-St. Francis deSales

In Part-1 of this series on Spiritual Darkness, I wrote about different forms of spiritual dryness. St. John of the Cross described it as “The Dark Night,” while St. Ignatius, in his spiritual exercises on discernment of spirits calls this dr…