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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, and begins the explanation of them.
Way of Perfection by Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)
even though we find we are unjustly condemned. But how disconnectedly I am writing! I am just like a person who does not know what she is doing. It is your fault, sisters,…
Way of Perfection by Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)
of prayer. Counsels the sisters to include this subject continually in their conversation. In this last chapter I seem to have been contradicting what I had previously said,…
Way of Perfection by Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)
temptation. Suggests two remedies by which we may be freed from temptations. A marginal addition made, in the autograph, to the title by another hand reads: “This chapter is very noteworthy,…
Way of Perfection by Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)
who have left the world and shows how by doing so they will find truer friends. Oh, if we religious understood what harm we get from having so much to do with our relatives, how we should shun them!…
Way of Perfection by Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)
udes this subject with an exclamatory prayer to the Eternal Father. I have written at length about this, although, when writing of the Prayer of Recollection,…
Way of Perfection by Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)
y ways in which we shall find consolation in it. The sublimity of the perfection of this evangelical prayer is something for which we should give great praise to the Lord.
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)
Prologue. As I have been commanded and left at liberty to describe at length my way of prayer, and the workings of the grace of our Lord within me, I could wish that I had been allowed at the same time to speak distinctly and in detail of my grievous sins and wicked life.
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)
. Observations on Certain Points of Spirituality. 1. "What is it that distresses thee, little sinner? Am I not thy God? Dost thou not see how ill I am treated here?…
Interior Castle or The Mansions by Teresa of Avila, St. (Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, 1515-1582)
THE FIRST MANSIONS.