Is your question really in the past tense (Did they in the past have an opinion...?) or is it in the present (Do they have an opinion .....?)?
I can’t give an authoritative answer. Perhaps the question is put better this way: which of these mystics would be recommended or permitted reading for Catholic monastics or lay people who were serious with their spiritual lives?
Teresa of Avila (whose writings themselves are quite sober), perhaps Catherine or Siena (whom I have not read). There could well be a tradition inside female Carmels which I am unaware of….
I do not know who really reads St Bernard nowadays…. (apart from the guestmaster at the (dying) Cistercian monastery who has an 18th century copy in Latin in his guestmaster’s room….)
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Date: 2010-09-06 06:40 pm (UTC)I can’t give an authoritative answer. Perhaps the question is put better this way: which of these mystics would be recommended or permitted reading for Catholic monastics or lay people who were serious with their spiritual lives?
Teresa of Avila (whose writings themselves are quite sober), perhaps Catherine or Siena (whom I have not read). There could well be a tradition inside female Carmels which I am unaware of….
I do not know who really reads St Bernard nowadays…. (apart from the guestmaster at the (dying) Cistercian monastery who has an 18th century copy in Latin in his guestmaster’s room….)
More than that I don’t know. Sorry.