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Way of Perfection by Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)
s. How I have enlarged on this subject! Yet I have not said as much about it as I should like; for it is a delightful thing to talk about this love of God. What, then, must it be to possess it? May the Lord, for His own sake, give it me! May I not depart from this life till there is nothing in it that I desire,…
Way of Perfection by Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)
times of sickness. These continual moanings which we make about trifling ailments, my sisters, seem to me a sign of imperfection: if you can bear a thing, say nothing about it.
Way of Perfection by Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)
way of prayer. Repeats how necessary it is to be resolute. Now, as I have said, it is most important that from the first we should be very resolute,…
Way of Perfection by Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)
ernoster and the great importance of our making no account of good birth if we truly desire to be the daughters of God. “Our Father, which art in the Heavens.” O my Lord,…
Way of Perfection by Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)
tain it. True humility will walk happily along the road by which the Lord leads it. I seem now to be beginning my treatment of prayer, but there still remains a little for me to say,…
Way of Perfection by Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)
The following variant reading of the Escorial Manuscript seems too important to be relegated to a footnote. It occurs the twelfth paragraph of ch. 4 (cf. n. 24), and deals, as will be seen,…
Way of Perfection by Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)
allied it is to mental prayer. Let us now return to speak of those souls I have mentioned who cannot practise recollection or tie down their minds to mental prayer or make a meditation.
Way of Perfection by Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)
of these words in the Paternoster: “Sanctificetur nomen tuum, adveniat regnum tuum.” “Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come.” Applies them to the Prayer of Quiet,…
Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of The Order of Our Lady of Carmel by Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)
. To One of Her Confessors, from the House of Doña Luisa de la Cerda, in 1562. Addressed, it is believed, to her confessor, F. Pedro Ibañez. This Relation corresponds with ch.
Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of The Order of Our Lady of Carmel by Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)
. How the Fears of the Saint Vanished. How She Was Assured That Her Prayer Was the Work of the Holy Spirit.…