{"id":22274,"date":"2024-12-14T14:12:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T14:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/learn\/st-john-of-the-cross\/"},"modified":"2024-12-14T14:12:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T14:12:04","slug":"st-john-of-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/st-john-of-the-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"San Juan de la Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%;margin-bottom: 25px\">\n                  <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dec.%2014%20-%20St.%20John%20of%20the%20Cross%20new.jpg?quality=80&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"display: block;margin: auto;max-width: 100%\" \/><br \/>\n                  <span style=\"text-align: right;font-style: italic\">San Juan de la Cruz<\/span>\n              <\/div>\n<p>Fecha de la festividad: 14 de diciembre<\/p>\n<p>          El 14 de diciembre es la memoria lit\u00fargica de San Juan de la Cruz, un sacerdote carmelita del siglo XVI conocido principalmente por reformar su orden junto con Santa Teresa de \u00c1vila y por escribir el tratado espiritual cl\u00e1sico \u201cLa noche oscura del alma\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Honrado como Doctor de la Iglesia desde 1926, a veces es llamado el \u201cDoctor M\u00edstico\u201d, como tributo a la profundidad de su ense\u00f1anza sobre la uni\u00f3n del alma con Dios.<\/p>\n<p>El hijo menor de unos padres dedicados al comercio de la seda, Juan de Yepes naci\u00f3 en 1542 en Fontiveros, cerca de la ciudad espa\u00f1ola de \u00c1vila. Su padre, Gonzalo, muri\u00f3 a una edad relativamente temprana y su madre, Catalina, luch\u00f3 por mantener a la familia. Juan tuvo \u00e9xito acad\u00e9mico desde sus primeros a\u00f1os, pero fracas\u00f3 en su intento de aprender un oficio como aprendiz. En cambio, pas\u00f3 varios a\u00f1os trabajando en un hospital para pobres y continuando sus estudios en un colegio jesuita en la ciudad de Medina del Campo.<\/p>\n<p>Tras discernir una vocaci\u00f3n a la vida mon\u00e1stica, Juan ingres\u00f3 en la Orden Carmelita en 1563. Hab\u00eda estado practicando un ascetismo f\u00edsico severo incluso antes de unirse a los carmelitas, y obtuvo permiso para vivir seg\u00fan su regla de vida original, que enfatizaba la soledad, el silencio, la pobreza, el trabajo y la oraci\u00f3n contemplativa. Juan recibi\u00f3 la ordenaci\u00f3n sacerdotal en 1567 despu\u00e9s de estudiar en Salamanca, pero consider\u00f3 trasladarse a la orden m\u00e1s austera de los cartujos en lugar de permanecer con los carmelitas.<\/p>\n<p>Sin embargo, antes de que pudiera dar ese paso, conoci\u00f3 a la monja carmelita canonizada m\u00e1s tarde como Santa Teresa de \u00c1vila. Nacida en 1515, Teresa se hab\u00eda unido a la orden en 1535, considerando la vida religiosa consagrada como el camino m\u00e1s seguro hacia la salvaci\u00f3n. Desde entonces, hab\u00eda logrado un progreso espiritual notable y, durante la d\u00e9cada de 1560, comenz\u00f3 un movimiento para devolver a los carmelitas a la estricta observancia de su forma de vida original. Convenci\u00f3 a Juan de no abandonar la orden, sino de trabajar por su reforma.<\/p>\n<p>Cambiando su nombre religioso de \u201cJuan de San Mat\u00edas\u201d a \u201cJuan de la Cruz\u201d, el sacerdote comenz\u00f3 esta labor en noviembre de 1568, acompa\u00f1ado por otros dos hombres de la orden con quienes compart\u00eda una casa peque\u00f1a y austera. Durante un tiempo, Juan estuvo a cargo de los nuevos reclutas de los \u201ccarmelitas descalzos\u201d, nombre adoptado por el grupo reformado, ya que usaban sandalias en lugar de zapatos comunes como signo de pobreza. Tambi\u00e9n pas\u00f3 cinco a\u00f1os como confesor en un monasterio en \u00c1vila dirigido por Santa Teresa.<\/p>\n<p>Su movimiento reformador creci\u00f3 r\u00e1pidamente, pero tambi\u00e9n se encontr\u00f3 con una severa oposici\u00f3n que puso en peligro su futuro durante la d\u00e9cada de 1570. A principios de diciembre de 1577, durante una disputa sobre la asignaci\u00f3n de Juan dentro de la orden, los opositores a la estricta observancia lo capturaron y encarcelaron en una celda diminuta. Su calvario dur\u00f3 nueve meses e incluy\u00f3 azotes p\u00fablicos regulares junto con otros castigos severos. Sin embargo, fue durante este mismo per\u00edodo que compuso la poes\u00eda que servir\u00eda como base para sus escritos espirituales.<\/p>\n<p>Juan logr\u00f3 escapar de la prisi\u00f3n en agosto de 1578, tras lo cual reanud\u00f3 la labor de fundar y dirigir comunidades de carmelitas descalzos. A lo largo de una d\u00e9cada, expuso sus ense\u00f1anzas espirituales en obras como \u201cSubida del Monte Carmelo\u201d, \u201cC\u00e1ntico espiritual\u201d y \u201cLlama de amor viva\u201d, as\u00ed como \u201cLa noche oscura del alma\u201d. Pero las intrigas dentro de la orden finalmente le costaron su puesto de liderazgo, y sus \u00faltimos a\u00f1os estuvieron marcados por la enfermedad y otros malos tratos.<\/p>\n<p>San Juan de la Cruz muri\u00f3 en la madrugada del 14 de diciembre de 1591, nueve a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s de la muerte de Santa Teresa de \u00c1vila en octubre de 1582. La sospecha, el maltrato y la humillaci\u00f3n hab\u00edan caracterizado gran parte de su tiempo en la vida religiosa, pero estas pruebas se entienden como algo que lo acerc\u00f3 m\u00e1s a Dios al romper su dependencia de las cosas de este mundo. En consecuencia, sus escritos enfatizan la necesidad de amar a Dios sobre todas las cosas, sin ser retenido por nada y, asimismo, sin retener nada.<\/p>\n<p>Solo cerca del final de su vida, el superior mon\u00e1stico de San Juan reconoci\u00f3 su sabidur\u00eda y santidad. Aunque su reputaci\u00f3n hab\u00eda sufrido injustamente durante a\u00f1os, esta situaci\u00f3n se revirti\u00f3 poco despu\u00e9s de su muerte. Fue beatificado en 1675, canonizado en 1726 y nombrado Doctor de la Iglesia en el siglo XX por el Papa P\u00edo XI. En una carta con motivo del 400 aniversario de la muerte de San Juan, el Papa Juan Pablo II, quien hab\u00eda escrito una tesis doctoral sobre los escritos del santo, recomend\u00f3 el estudio del m\u00edstico espa\u00f1ol, a quien llam\u00f3 \u201cmaestro en la fe y testigo del Dios vivo\u201d.<br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/saint\/st-john-of-the-cross-84\">Enlace a la fuente <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Fecha de la fiesta de San Juan de la Cruz: 14 de dic. El 14 de diciembre es la memoria lit\u00fargica de San Juan de la Cruz, un sacerdote carmelita del siglo XVI conocido principalmente por reformar su orden junto con Santa Teresa de \u00c1vila y por escribir el tratado espiritual cl\u00e1sico \u201cLa noche oscura del alma\u201d. Honrado como un [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-22274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianpure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Dec.-14-St.-John-of-the-Cross-new.jpg?fit=900%2C500&quality=80&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":71114,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/discalced-carmelites-prepare-to-celebrate-jubilee-year-of-st-john-of-the-cross\/","url_meta":{"origin":22274,"position":0},"title":"Discalced Carmelites prepare to celebrate jubilee year of St. John of the Cross","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"diciembre 6, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Poster for the St. John of the Cross 2026 Jubilee. \/ Credit: Iberian Province of the Discalced Carmelites ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 4, 2025 \/ 08:00 am (CNA). 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