ICS Tribute to Father Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D.

As much as I have obviously benefited personally from the Carmelite writings published by ICS Publications, I would be greatly remiss if I did not draw attention to the Fall 2007 ICS Publications News now online.

It is a tribute to ICS author and translator Father Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D., who has now has published modern translations of all of the works of St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross.  Volume 2 of the Letters of St. Teresa of Avila is his most recently published translation, just published.  Having devoted a lifetime to this work, he is still doing more, working on a Study Edition of St. Teresa's Interior Castle.  That follows a study edition of The Way of Perfection published by ICS since 2000.

Father Kavanaugh's work has contributed so much to those who read the writings of the Carmelite saints that Volume X of the ICS Carmelite Studies series is a collection of essays celebrating his work: A Better Wine: Essays Celebrating Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D..  The ten essays in the book are a tribute to his 50 years of ordination as a Catholic priest. 

His collection of writings about the Carmelite saints includes works published by ICS Publications and elsewhere.  The ICS books can be found and purchased online from the ICS website.  Those with other publishers include (among many others) Teresa of Avila: Interior Castle (editor, author of the Introduction, and co-translator with Otilio Rodriguez, O.C.D. of the Paulist Press' Classics of Western Spirituality series volume);  John of the Cross: Selected Writings (editor, author of the introduction and translator, Classics of Western Spirituality series); John of the Cross: Doctor of Light and Love (author, Crossroad Spiritual Legacy Series); and Francisco de Osuna: Third Spiritual Alphabet (author of the preface, Classics of Western Spirituality series).