Quote of the day, 12 January: St. Teresa

If suffering for love’s sake
Can give such wondrous delight?
What joy will gazing on You be?

What will it be beholding
The Majesty eternal
Since Andrew seeing the cross
Was so filled with rejoicing?
Oh, how can it be wanting,
Delight in suffering’s midst!
What joy will gazing on You be?

Love, when it has grown,
Save in laboring cannot live,
Nor the hearty without fighting
Because of love for his Beloved.
By this love is victory won
And the desire to be right in all.
What joy will gazing on You be?

Since all people dread dying,
Why is it sweetness to You?
Oh, I will live
In a loftier way.
By Your death, O my God,
The weakest knows strength.
What joy will gazing on You be?

O cross, wood so precious
Majestic and grand!
Once greatly despised,
Now espoused to God,
With rejoicing I come,
Unworthy to love you.
What joy will gazing on You be?

Saint Teresa of Avila

Poetry 21, To Saint Andrew

Teresa of Avila, St 1985, The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, Kavanaugh, K & Rodriguez, O (trans.), ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Our featured image is a detail from Diego Velasquez’s portrait of Saint Teresa, created in 1630. It is currently held in a private collection. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites (Public domain).

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St. Andrew's house in Tel Aviv, upright [between 1940 and 1946]
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1 negative : glass, dry plate ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller.

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The Church, Cheddar, England between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Views of the British Isles Image shows the parish church of St. Andrew in Cheddar, England. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) England Cheddar

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Mount Gambier’s St Andrew’s Uniting Church to be sold due to steeple repair cost

The Uniting Church will abandon its state heritage-listed church in the middle of Mount Gambier because of escalating…
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As the new school term begins in Jamaica, St Andrew High School for Girls has ignited debate with a new grooming policy banning the wearing of ‘edges’ on campus. #StAndrew

https://yardhype.com/curtains-belong-in-the-house-not-on-foreheads-st-andrew-high-banning-edges-sparks-social-media-debate/

It is being reported that a shootout took place in the area of Jack’s Hill, St. Andrew which resulted in five men being fatally shot by law enforcement personnel on Monday, July 21. #JamaicaConstabularyForce #StAndrew

https://yardhype.com/quintuple-fatal-shooting-in-st-andrew/