Quote of the day, 11 September: St. Teresa of Avila

This is the authorization for Sister María de Jesús to make her profession. I grant it with great pleasure. May the blessing of the Lord de rore coeli et de pinguedine terrae be granted her.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Letter 263 to Sister María de Jesús López Rivas, Toledo
Avila, August (?) 1578

Note: This text is taken either from a note or a fragment from a letter. María de Jesús (Blessed Mary of Jesus) made her profession on 8 September 1578. The blessing prayer of St. Teresa refers to a blessing given by Isaac to Jacob: “God give thee the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, abundance of corn and wine” (Gen 27:28).

Teresa of Avila, St. 1985, The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K; Rodriguez, O, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: An early portrait of Blessed Mary of Jesus. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites (By permission)

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Quote of the day, 6 September: Père Jacques

Carmel is a community of human beings who reveal God to other human beings. There should be a Carmel in every city, and then there would be no need of works. One would see God through these human beings who live for him and him alone.

A person does not withdraw to Carmel because of weariness, or to know tranquility, or to live a mediocre life, or to flee the cares of keeping a home and family, or to have a more comfortable existence.

One comes here because she is athirst for God, because she desires to find God and to reveal God to the whole world.

Servant of God Père Jacques de Jésus

Conference 1, Solitude, the Essence of Carmel
Monday morning, 6 September 1943

Jacques, P 2005, Listen to the silence: A retreat with Père Jacques, translated from the French and edited by Murphy F, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Mother María Capilla de Jesús, OCD, is seen walking down a hallway on the main floor of the Carmel of Valladolid. Image credit: Angel Cantero, Iglesia en Valladolid / Flickr (Some rights reserved)

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Quote of the day, 1 September: St. Teresa Margaret

Love can compass everything.

St. Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Teresa Margaret knew from experience that love made all things bearable.

If, in the middle of a life humanly impossible she remained calm and smiling, it was because an interior flame was consuming her, a flame that obliterated all suffering in its presence, a flame that served as a remedy to her.

The Saint was heroic in the gift of herself simply because she was mystically consumed by love.

Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene, O.C.D.

di Santa Maria Maddalena O.C.D., G 2006, From the Sacred Heart to the Trinity the spiritual itinerary of Saint Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart, O.C.D., translated from the Italian by Ramge, S, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: This detail of the portrait of St. Teresa Margaret was painted by Florentine artist Anna Bacherini Piattoli. She captured the image of the incorrupt saint during the weeks between her death and burial. St. Teresa Margaret was not yet 23 years old at the time of her death. The painting is venerated at the Monastery of St. Teresa of the Discalced Carmelite nuns in Florence, Italy. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

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"My only happiness is to live for Jesus." St. Teresa of the Andes reflects on her vocation in her first letter to her mother after Christmas 1919. #CarmeliteLife

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