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One of St. Teresa's benchmark passages about humility, worthy of memorization, she describes the equivalence between humility and love: "I cannot understand how there could be humility without love or love without humility."
St. John of the Cross refers to the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit at the Annunciation in Stanza 3 of The Living Flame of Love: "O lamps of fire! in whose splendors..." He continues, "it should be known that an overshadowing is the equivalent of casting a shadow; and casting a shadow is similar to protecting, favoring, and granting graces."
St. Titus Brandsma once again turns to St. John of the Cross and the Living Flame of Live to help explain the profound mystery of Mary's motherhood of God: "casting a shadow is similar to protecting, favoring, and granting graces."
Bishop Silvio José Báez says that when we make room for God's love and trust him, the impossible begins to become a reality.
Happy Birthday to Blessed Titus Brandsma! From his article on Mary's motherhood of God: "In his Explanation of “The Living Flame of Love”, St. John of the Cross draws the Holy Mother of God as clearly as possible into the circle of his metaphor clarifying the mystical life...."
I will look very often at this precious picture and will unite myself to the soul of the Virgin
Come, you who, descending into Mary, caused the Word to take flesh: effect in us by grace what you accomplished in her by grace and nature.
Mary has brought it about that God, if we may say so, is glorified by God himself
Without Mary, God could never have shown us his smile, caressed us, healed our wounds with his hands and spoken to us as our brother
When we make room for his love and trust him, the impossible begins to become a reality
She looked deeply into the mystery of virginity of which her divine Son later said, “Whoever can accept this, ought to do so.”
The Virgin praying alone in the hidden, silent room
He who overshadows him is now near to befriend and protect him
I see you prefer, O Mary, what a mystery! The ineffable treasure of virginity
She was faithful to the Love that had conquered her
The Most Pure Virgin Mary is "Our Lady of Joy"
Come, you who, descending into Mary, caused the Word to take flesh
She raised her head as a servant of the Lord welcoming his word
O best of fathers, how accountable we would be if we didn’t become saints
St. Therese had a particular devotion for the mystery of the Incarnation
![Teresian scholar Father Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD states that St. Teresa didn’t believe that in order to pray “it was sufficient to follow the rubrics and pronounce” the [Latin] words. Thus, she taught her nuns to be aware of the One to whom they were speaking. Visit our blog to learn more:](https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/308954217_682184336115139_7294918452435920926_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=zkuEGy0cTf8AX8FrJtd&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=00_AT98bhF7pkUtywUDgiajZu_j4M0s9lhqy94GTl9D9UB8bw&oe=633AD37A)
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