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Sister Martha of Jesus

(and also a little about spiritual reading in general)

In the last years of her life, Therese grows into the fundamental attitudes of the Virgin Mary, truly becoming "a child who resembles her mother".

When the Russian Orthodox monk Andrei Rublev was commissioned by his superior to paint the icon of the Trinity at the Trinity Monastery in Zagorsk near Moscow, he faced a daunting task...

When Edith Stein crossed the threshold of the Cologne Carmelite cloister on October 14, 1933, after the solemn first vespers of the feast of Saint Teresa of Avila, her long-held wish was fulfilled...

That Mary is Teresa's Mother, Teresa will celebrate throughout her life thanks to the aforementioned healing experience...

The door is a boundary
between the outside and the inside...

It is a very interesting and perhaps not very well-known fact that at the foundation of Teresa's second conversion stands a strong Eucharistic experience...

The Eucharist is meant to change each individual as well as all of us together as a church, so that we may become the best we can be; that is, to be “another Christ,” to be the body of Christ...

... I would like to share with you a testimony of how this man's life story speaks to me even after a distance of six centuries. This testimony concerns several values...

Shortly before her death in May 1897, Therese expresses in her long poem of 25 stanzas the place that the Virgin Mary held in her life...

I jen letmý pohled na dějiny křesťanského řeholního života ukazuje, že u zrodu některých řádů, jejichž význam v průběhu historie církve až podnes je veliký, stáli laici, tedy ne duchovní...

Ascent of Mount Carmel (annotation)

God spreads His mercy in the world through the service of the church via a precious gift known by the ancient name "indulgences"...