Saint teresa

In the summer of 1976 I attended Habitat: The United Nations Conference on Human Settlements in Vancouver, Canada. While walking with a friend across the campus of the University of British Columbia where the conference was taking place we saw an older woman of diminutive stature with a lined, weathered [...]

Sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

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Saint of the Day – 15 October – St Teresa of Jesus/of Avila (1515-1582) Virgin, Mystic, Ecstatic, Reformer, Apostle of Prayer, Writer, Doctor of the Church. Born as Teresa Sanchez Ce…

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If you want to talk about a powerful Catholic woman (besides our Blessed Mother), St. Teresa of Avila is it. Hanging above my desk at the Pilgrim Center of Hope (which used to be a Teresian convent…

In the spring of 1959, a twenty-one-year-old Australian named Robert Hughes made his first visit to Rome. The young student of architecture, as it turned out, had a gift for writing as well as a ravenous, penetrating eye. Though he gained in sophistication, he never lost his initial brashness, and that is why, in the end, he has such an original, persuasive take on the Eternal City. The reasons for Rome's staying power, Hughes argues, have to do with the city's eternal embrace of crassness…

Mysticism is an intimidating word. We instinctively associate it with saints who had incredible supernatural experiences—such as St. John of the Cross, Padre Pio; Teresa of Ávila; Faustina Kowalska. These saints certainly were mystics. But what makes a mystic a mystic? Is it an inaccessible reality, something beyond us everyday mortals? Let’s find out. The […]