Carmelite wisdom to encourage & inspire
St. Teresa of Avila explains to her nuns why obedience is “the quickest or best means” for reaching perfection. She indicates that obedience and submission to superiors lead to mastery of one’s own will.
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Blessed Mary of the Incarnation, the famed founder Madame Acarie, was beatified by Pope Pius VI on 5 June 1791, amid the anti-clerical uproar of the French Revolution. Here is her prayer of surrender to God, "O more than admirable power."
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Madame Acarie clearly understood our total indebtedness to God. After her husband died, she had an enormous debt to repay. Thus it’s fitting that she would remind us that "everything is due to God."
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St. Edith Stein writes, “In faithful trust, we must abandon our souls to the sovereignty of the Holy Spirit. It is not necessary that we experience the epiphany in our lives.” Edith urges trust and abandonment.
When Saint Teresa wrote a poem about the Song of Songs, she said, “my Beloved One is mine and I at last am surely His.” All our self-denial and humble sacrifice prepare us for union with God.
If you desire to possess profound peace in your soul... surrender your whole will to God so that it may thus be united with him
I saw clearly that a soul which sanctifies itself becomes fruitful in attracting souls to God.
St. Teresa proposes obedience as the solution to the "interior battle" between our self-will and God's will for us: "it means making Him Lord over the free will He has given us."
"I'm sure that the Good Lord wouldn't give you the desire to be POSSESSED by Him — by His Merciful Love — if He didn't reserve this favor for you"
Surrender your whole will to God so that it may thus be united with him
I can lose myself in the infinite Ocean of the Heart of Jesus
Thérèse predicted that after her death, we would never lack “our daily bread”
Humility drew the King from heaven to the womb of the Virgin
To believe means to trust, first of all
What is, then, the great sickness of our time and of our people?
Bring yourself back to Him, let go of this natural inclination in order to please Him
My Beloved One is mine and I at last am surely His
My spirit came to be one with its Maker, God above
The power of a soul surrendered to love is so great
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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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