A great religious classic rendered in modern English and abridged for accessibility by John Venard, OCD. The Spiritual Canticle is the only one of St.John's works which covers the whole gamut of spiritual life. He describes the spiritual journey in the burning words of a great lover of.God who speaks from experience. He portrays the astonishing intimacy of the spiritual marriage in language which draws its inspiration from the very love song of God to humankind in the Old Testament's Song of Songs. All this places God in an exciting new perspective for those who genuinely seek to experience Him in this way.