By the late Rev. McGowan

What's wrong with meekness?  Is the meek man a Milquetoast who is too spineless and weak-kneed to face up to the battle of life?This is the false face of meekness spread by our TV and modern novels. 

By the late Father Kilian McGowan, C.P.

More books, pamphlets and columns on peace of soul have probably been written in the last decade than in all the time since the birth of Christ.  No generation has sought peace more desperately than our own.  Yet, this desirable state of mind and heart seems to be more elusive than ever.

Born in poverty. Cared for the poor in the hospital in Medina del Campo, Spain. Carmelite lay brother in 1563 at age 21, though he lived more strictly than the Rule required. Studied at Salamanca, Spain. Carmelite priest, ordained in 1567 at age 25. Persuaded by Saint Teresa of Avila to begin the Discalced or barefoot reform within the Carmelite Order, he took the name John of the Cross. Master of novices. Spiritual director and confessor at Saint Teresa‘s convent. His reforms did not set well with some of his brothers, and he was ordered to return to Medina del Campo. He refused, and was imprisoned at Toledo, Spain, escaping after nine months. Vicar-general of Andalusia, Spain. His reforms revitalized the Order. Great contemplative and spiritual writer. Proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XI on 24 August 1926.