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St. Teresa of Avila describes the obligations of the prioress, emphasizing that her duties "should be done with a mother's love. She should strive to be loved so that she may be obeyed."
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Like the valiant mother of the Maccabees, Blessed Teresa of St. Augustine, prioress of the Carmel of Compiègne, presided over the martyrdom of her daughters as she blessed and encouraged them all.
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We read a prophetic verse from a Christmas hymn composed by the prioress of the Blessed Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne Mother Teresa of Saint Augustine, Marie Lidoine. Biographer Professor William Bush describes Mother Lidoine's resplendent transformation in her final moments at the foot of the scaffold.
Blessed Anne of St. Bartholomew describes her experiences as Prioress in Paris in the year 1605. She tells us that four professed religious and two novices left Paris to found a new Discalced Carmelite monastery in Amiens on Pentecost. There was a Pontifical Mass and the Bishop had the head of St. John the Baptist carried in procession!
St. Teresa is concerned about the health of her nuns, particularly the prioresses in Seville and Malagón. She writes to the prioress in Seville, "God is life, and he can give it. Always keep praying for this..."
In all that I say in this book I submit to what our Mother the Holy Roman Church holds... If there should be anything good in this work, may it be for the honor and glory of God and the service of His most Blessed Mother, our Lady and Patroness, whose habit I wear despite my being very unworthy to do so.
St. Edith Stein tells the story of how St. Teresa became the prioress of the Monastery of the Incarnation in Avila amid a great furor 450 years ago
Read the story of how St. Elizabeth of the Trinity was originally destined to enter the Carmel of Paray-le-Monial
These Sisters in the Incarnation are My Sisters, and you delay?
A novena based on Poem 45, "My Joy!" written by St. Thérèse for her sister Pauline's feast day, 21 January 1897
Love will always be victorious, love can do everything
My tear-filled eyes became fixed on a picture of the Sacred Heart
She is another Mary Magdalene whom nothing must distract from the One
My soul was united very profoundly, I assure you, to the divine joys which flooded yours in those two great days of your ordination and first Mass [28–29 May 1904]. I would have wished that this brief note, which tells you of my entire union with you, might have reached you sooner; that wasn't possible... Continue Reading →
She benefitted by the first Lent of the triennium to safeguard recollection in the house
Let us love the good Lord well!
I, Sister Mary Elizabeth of the Trinity, make my profession, and I promise chastity, poverty and obedience to God
I don't want the eve of such a beautiful day to pass by without speaking a little word
One will go directly from her deathbed to her home in heaven
If you could see through the grilles the goodness lavished on me
!["[Perfect love] will be our eternal life, and here we have to seek to come as close to it as possible. Jesus became incarnate in order to be our way."](https://scontent-lax3-2.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/338273479_3403408046565587_3161977190221199289_n.webp?stp=dst-jpg&_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=2RFDkB20o3EAX9_P_Re&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=00_AfD3dCCOcYwFNxZwMJi3SIk_jRzaCCkbAKaT7QDSJRU25Q&oe=642E2A0B)
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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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