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Interpreting St Teresa of Avila
Fr Patrick Burke,
O.Carm., former National Director of the Third Order/Lay Carmel in Ireland,
wrote a series of short articles on St Teresa of Avila. They appeared in
"Carmelite Family" – the magazine of the Third Order/Lay Carmel in
Ireland, and are reproduced in this website. They all carry the title
“Interpreting St Teresa of Avila” and are each available at the links below.
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‘Oh, what a good friend You make, my Lord’
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‘The soul can place itself in the presence of Christ
and grow accustomed to being inflamed with love for His sacred
humanity.”
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‘Do not be frightened by the many things you need to
consider in order to begin this divine journey which is the royal
road to heaven.'
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“It's as though Jesus tells the Father that He is now
ours since the Father has given Him to us to die for us; and asks
that the Father not take Him from us until the end of the world;
that He allow Him serve each day.”
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Five |
I
often say that however small the point of honour may be, the concern
for it is like that of sound coming from an organ when the timing or
measure is off; all the music becomes dissonant. This concern is
something that does damage to the soul in all areas, but in this
path of prayer it is a pestilence.
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From all
these occasions and dangers God delivered me in such a way that it
seems clear He strove, against my will, to keep me from being
completely lost, although this deliverance could not be achieved so
secretly as to prevent me from suffering much loss of reputation.
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“It happened to me that one day entering the oratory
I saw a statue they had borrowed for a certain feast to be
celebrated in the house. It represented the much-wounded Christ and
was very devotional so that beholding it I was utterly distressed in
seeing Him that way, for it well represented what He suffered for
us. I felt so keenly aware of how poorly I thanked Him for those
wounds that, it seems to me, my heart broke”
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Nine |
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Ten |
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Eleven |
Her Four
Degrees of Praying
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Twelve |
Second
Degree Of Praying
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Thirteen |
Second Degree of Prayer
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Fourteen |
Awareness And Recollection
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Fifteen |
Three Living Virtues
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Sixteen |
‘Our Daily Bread’
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Seventeen |
The Humanity of Jesus Christ
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Eighteen |
"Lineage
and Status Matter Not"
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Nineteen |
Becoming a
Carmelite Nun |
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