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Friends of the Rosary,

Today, October 15, the Catholic Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582).

Born in Avila, Spain, in the year 1515, this sixteenth-century Spaniard saint is honored as the “seraphic virgin,” virgo seraphica, doctrix mystica, doctor of mystical theology, and teacher of the spiritual life.

She reformed the Carmelite Order, with the help of St. John of the Cross, changing most of the Carmelite convents and founding thirty-two reformed convents.

She reached the highest degree of prayer and, through prayer, obtained such knowledge of divine things that in 1970 Pope St. Paul VI named her the first woman Doctor of the Church. Her writings are still the classic works on mysticism. Autobiography of St. Teresa, Interior Castle, and Way of Perfection.

Through her mystical union with God, she reached a climax when her heart was transfixed (transverberatio cordis),

St. Teresa composed the following well-known lines:

Let nothing affright thee,
Nothing dismay thee.
All is passing,
God ever remains.
Patience obtains all.
Whoever possesses God
Cannot lack anything
God alone suffices.

Ave Maria!
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!

Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Please give us the grace to respond with joy!

+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New York

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