“Our fear increases if we fly from it, while our
courage grows stronger as we resist.”—Spanish Franciscan friar St. Peter of
Alcantara (1499-1562), Treatise on Prayer and Meditation
The image accompanying this post is a painting of St.
Peter of Alcantara by Luis Tristan de Escamilla (1586–1624), at the Museo
de El Greco, Toledo, Spain.
