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| Transverberation heart of St. Teresa of Jesus (1515-1582), by Bernini |
Boudon our venerable friend had to master the Doctor of the Church that was the Great Theresa. Here, among other things, excerpts from his correspondence that it evokes the Holy of Avila, the Carmelite reformer, and the origin of the French school of spirituality. He calls almost always Seraphic , she had the soul "injured" by the burning arrow of a Seraph, and he is not afraid to say "Our Mother", like the religious the Order of Our Lady of Mount Caramel.
" The same Providence has made us give the public a little book of God's presence. [...] It was the great occupation of our seraphic Mother Theresa (I call in this way and I respect) that the divine presence "(Letter 36).
" Our Seraphic Mother St. Teresa at the sight of a few rays of light given him of the greater whole of God alone, it ensures that the hair stood at the head, for fear that the seized before a terrible majesty "(Letter 39)
" Santa Teresa after her death seemed to Blessed John of the Cross, urged him to work to perfection, telling him that God would be more glorified by other ways "(Letter 228).
" St. Teresa began a major strength of the party of those who persecuted him, saying that they were right " (Letter 254)
"It a great grace that the conversation with the holy angels, and so great that when our Saviour would take particularly good St. Teresa of its shortcomings and raise it to the high perfection to which he put it, he said: I do not want you converse with men but with angels "(Letter 294)
" And if the seraphic St. Theresa had the maxim" Either suffer or die, as ours is, with the great saint of love, St. Francis de Sales, "Either love or die", but and dying and love, to never stop loving "(Letter 299)
" I am writing on 15 October, celebration of the great and seraphic Theresa. The Discalced Carmelite Fathers of Flanders called me a child of their Holy Mother , fiat, fiat. Oh! Would to God I had one of his true children! It was all lost in Jesus Christ, so that looking at his soul that he was shown as a mirror bright and pure, it does not see it, but Jesus Christ "(Letter 310)
" Divine Providence will never fail those who entrust them. [...] In truth, the Seraphic Mother St. Teresa confided it perfectly "(Letter 366)
remember that St. Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada died the night of October 4 to 15 1582, Pope Gregory XIII had modified schedule for catch-up on the sun.
Here own preface of the Mass of St. Teresa of Avila :
" Really it is just and worthy of you give thanks [...] through Christ our Lord . Who wanted him enrich the Blessed Teresa of Science of the Saints and the fire of divine charity, and ignite more guts in his vision of an Angel, who with her fiery arrow transpersa entrails, also meaning , giving Hand, He Is the association in a spiritual marriage. When the fire of love consumed the life of St. Therese, his mind, coming in the form of a dove, climbed the ladder of celestial glory . Here's why, with the Angels [...] "
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