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Saint Teresa of the Andes entered the Carmel of the Holy Spirit in the township of Los Andes, some 90 kilometers from her home in Santiago de Chile on Wednesday, 7 May 1919. The Prioress said that when Teresa said farewell to her oldest sister, she said, "Until heaven! Life is so short!"
"What pleases him is to see me love my littleness and my poverty... That's my only treasure..."
As St. Clare said, great walls are those of poverty. She said that it was with walls like these, and those of humility, that she wanted to enclose her monasteries.
It is our anxiety that creates our needs; cast your care on the Lord, daughter, and he will sustain you
Consecrated life is a style or way of living Christian life
Mary rejoices because she is the bearer of Emmanuel, of ‘God with us’
She lives with joy because she trusts totally in the Lord
I saw the tears upon the Virgin's face
It was a feast such as the Cologne Carmel has never seen
I understood that I had a great obligation to serve our Lady and St. Joseph
Edith’s six months of probation passed quickly.
I, Sister Mary Elizabeth of the Trinity, make my profession, and I promise chastity, poverty and obedience to God
On the First or Second Sunday of Advent, in the year 1568, the first Mass was said
I think God cannot fail anyone who serves Him
More than ever the cross is a sign of contradiction
I felt freedom in having so little esteem for temporal goods
I simply do not praise poverty, but suffering with patience
Gregory IX frees the Carmelites from property to focus on prayer
Seek those things which draw you to the ardor of my love
A soul ordinarily needs instruction in order to be guided through the dark night
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Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices. ~ St. Teresa of Avila
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