"Spiritual progress tends toward ever more intimate union with Christ. This union is called "mystical" because it participates in the mystery of Christ through the sacraments--'the holy mysteries'--and, in him, in the mystery of the Holy Trinity. God calls us to this intimate union with him, even if the special graces or extraordinary signs of this mystical life are granted only to some for the sake of manifesting the gratuitous gift given to all."
"The way of perfection passes by the way of the Cross. There is no holiness without renunciation and spiritual battle. Spiritual progress entails the ascesis and mortification that gradually lead to living in the peace and joy of the Beatitudes."
Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2014-15.
"He who climbs never stops going from beginning to beginning, through beginnings that have no end. He never stops desiring what he already knows..."
--St. Gregory of Nyssa, Hom. in Cant. 8:p. 44, 941C
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