Intimate Friendship With Christ
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Thursday, February 03, 2011
The Pope’s catechesis on St. Teresa of Avila yesterday amused me.
Near the start he recounts this cute scene from her childhood. As a 9-year-old girl, she was inspired by the lives of some martyrs she read about, so she ran away to be martyred.
“I want to see God,” said the little girl to her parents.
Alas, this piety didn’t last into adolescence…but we know she ended well!
Later he summarizes her... READ MORE
"Love Itself Purifies The Soul"
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Thursday, January 13, 2011
The Holy Father preached yesterday’s audience on the “third Catherine”—Catherine of Genoa.
(She joins St. Catherine of Siena and St. Catherine of Bologna.)
She’s best known for her teaching on Purgatory, but what fascinates me about her is that she was a married woman with an active apostolate who nonetheless attained the very heights of mystical union with God.
Raised in a pious home, she had a troubled... READ MORE
Holy Women for Advent
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Saturday, December 04, 2010
Pope Benedict has been delivering a smashing series of Audiences on the women saints of the Medieval Church.
At one point I thought to do a post on each address, but I’ve fallen behind.
Nonetheless, the lectures are so rich, the women and their qualities so varied (including figures I’d never heard of), it seems a shame not to at least collect the texts and note a few highlights—because the Pope... READ MORE
God's Promises Greater Than Our Hopes
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith on Thursday, December 02, 2010
Continuing his series on women saints, the Pope spoke yesterday about Julian of Norwich.
She’s a good example of “spiritual maternity,” given that she was an anchoress—a hermit living withdrawn from the world—and yet
We know that Julian also received frequent visitors, as attested in the autobiography of another fervent Christian woman of her time, Margery Kempe, who went to Norwich in 1413 to receive... READ MORE
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