Carmelites! Happy Feast Day Of St. Teresa Of The Andes

[SrBenigna]

A favorite saint of mine and favorite movie, "Teresa of the Andes". I LOVE her writings and the first lines of this reading just grabs my heart and she writes what is in my heart too!

Proper for the Liturgy of the Hours Discalced Carmelite Solemnities, Feasts and Memorials ([url="http://divineoffice.net/OCDS_proper.htm"]http://divineoffice.net/OCDS_proper.htm[/url]) for the Carmelite saints and blesseds.

This Proper Office book is often hard to find but it is online at the link above.


The following is taken from "Meditations From Carmel" blog ([url="http://www.stl-ocds.org/blog/"]http://www.stl-ocds.org/blog/[/url]). Here is the Proper Office (of Readings) for St. Teresa - the Carmelite Proper Office book only gives the 2nd reading and closing prayer for the Office of Readings, otherwise you use the Common of Virgins in the Divine Office:

[b]July 13th [/b]

[b]Teresa of Jesus "of Los Andes", Virgin
Optional Memorial [/b]

Juanita Fernandez Solar was born at Santiago, Chile, on July 13, 1900. From her adolescence she was devoted to Christ. She entered the monastery of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns at Los Andes on May 7, 1919, where she was given the name of Teresa of Jesus. She died on April 12[sup]th[/sup] of the following year after having made her religious profession. She was beatified by John Paul II on April 3, 1987, at Santiago, Chile, and proposed as a model for young people. She is the first Chilean and the first member of the Teresian Carmel in Latin America to be beatified.

[b]Office of Readings[/b]

The Second Reading
[i]Diario y cartas[/i] (Los Andes, 1983), 373, 359, 376

From the [i]Spiritual writings[/i] of Saint Teresa of Jesus

Jesus alone is beautiful; he is my only joy. I call for him, I cry after him, I search for him within my heart. I long for Jesus to grind me interiorly so that I may become a pure host where he can find his rest. I want to be athirst with love so that other souls may possess this love. I would die to creatures and to myself, so that he may live in me.

Is there anything good, beautiful or true that we can think of that would not be in Jesus? Wisdom, from which nothing would be secret. Power, for which nothing would be impossible. Justice, which made him take on flesh in order to make satisfaction for sin. Providence, which always watches over and sustains us. Mercy, which never ceases to pardon. Goodness, which forgets the offenses of his creatures. Love, which unites all the tendernesses of a mother, of a brother, of a spouse, and which, drawing him out of the abyss of his greatness, binds him closely to his creatures. Beauty which enraptures…what can you think of that would not be found in this Man-God?

Are you perhaps afraid that the abyss of the greatness of God and that of your nothingness cannot be united? There is love in him. His passionate love made him take flesh in order that by seeing a Man-God, we would not be afraid to draw near him. This passionate love made him become bread in order to assimilate our nothingness and make it disappear into his infinite being. This passionate love made him give his life by dying on the cross.

Are you perhaps afraid to draw near him? Look at him, surrounded by little children. He caresses them, he presses them to his heart. Look at him in the midst of his faithful flock, bearing the faithless lamb on his shoulders. Look at him at the tomb of Lazarus. And listen to what he says of the Magdalene: "Much has been forgiven her, because she has loved much." What do you discover in these flashes from the Gospel except a heart that is good, gentle, tender, compassionate; in other words, the heart of a God?

He is my unending wealth, my bliss, my heaven.

Prayer
God of mercy, joy of the saints,
you set the young heart of Saint Teresa ablaze
with the fire of virginal love for Christ and for his church;
and even in suffering you made her a cheerful witness to charity.
Through her intercession,
fill us with the delights of your Spirit,
so that we may proclaim by word and deed
the joyful message of your love to the world.
We ask this through our Lord.

Edited July 13, 2010 by SrBenigna

[OnlySunshine]

She is probably the most beautiful Carmelite saint ever! I love her pictures. She looks so in love!

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Santa_Teresa_de_los_Andes.jpg/432px-Santa_Teresa_de_los_Andes.jpg[/img]

Even though I am not called to Carmel, I cried a "mini monsoon" during the entrance scene when Teresa entered the cloister in the movie. The nuns singing [url="http://romaaeterna.jp/liber1/lu1314.html"][i]O Gloriosa Virginum[/i][/url] was beautiful.

Edited July 13, 2010 by MaterMisericordiae

[SrBenigna]

Thanks for posting her picture! I can never figure out how to put pictures in posts!

Such a beautiful picture of her - I love this one.

[vee]

Thanks for the reminder SrB!

[carmelite15]

[quote name='vee8' date='13 July 2010 - 08:17 AM' timestamp='1279027048' post='2142009']
Thanks for the reminder SrB!
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Thank you so much when I became catholic this year I picked her as my saints name I just love her!!!

[melporcristo]

+JMJT+

Thank you Sister!! I LOVED her prayer Spiritual Writing that you posted from the Carmelite Liturgy of the hours. Lovely.

Happy feast day! St. Teresa of the Andes, pray for us!

[laetitia crucis]

Haaaaappy Feast Day!!!

[Marie-Therese]

Thank you so much for the link to the propers!! I appreciate it!

[SrBenigna]

The Proper Offices online is great, but of course it goes with the Divine Office volumes as not all the parts of an office is there. For example for tonight and tomorrow for the Solemnity of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, the day Psalms come from the Morning Sunday of Week 1 of the Divine Office volumes so that is not given in these Proper Offices and others. But I suppose it would work with the 1 volume Christian Prayer book with is a mini Divine Office? Not sure about that though!

[teresitacarmel]

Love her!!! [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/lol.gif[/img]

[vee]

I've just ordered her book and it better be worth it! The best deal I could find has the book at $9 and shipping at $12 *sigh*

[SrBenigna]

[quote name='vee8' date='14 July 2010 - 03:08 PM' timestamp='1279134521' post='2142631']
I've just ordered her book and it better be worth it! The best deal I could find has the book at $9 and shipping at $12 *sigh*
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Which one did you buy? There are 4 or so good books on her, mostly by Fr. Michael Griffin (http://giftstore.holyhill.com/holyhillshrine/page2.html) - this site has 4 or so books on her - Life, Letters, Testimony, etc.

Then a new bio on her by Jennifer Moorcraft (or something like it who also wrote a great bio on Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity, "He is My Heaven" at http://www.sistersofcarmel.com/blessed-elizabeth-of-the-trinity-catholic-books.php). The new one by this author is,
"God is All Joy: The Life of St. Teresa of the Andes" at http://www.amazon.com/God-All-Joy-Teresa-Andes/dp/0935216421/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279154961&sr=8-1

[vee]

[quote name='SrBenigna' date='14 July 2010 - 07:57 PM' timestamp='1279155477' post='2142798']
Which one did you buy? There are 4 or so good books on her, mostly by Fr. Michael Griffin (http://giftstore.holyhill.com/holyhillshrine/page2.html) - this site has 4 or so books on her - Life, Letters, Testimony, etc.

Then a new bio on her by Jennifer Moorcraft (or something like it who also wrote a great bio on Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity, "He is My Heaven" at http://www.sistersofcarmel.com/blessed-elizabeth-of-the-trinity-catholic-books.php). The new one by this author is,
"God is All Joy: The Life of St. Teresa of the Andes" at http://www.amazon.com/God-All-Joy-Teresa-Andes/dp/0935216421/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279154961&sr=8-1
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I chose this one by Michael Griffin http://www.amazon.com/God-Joy-My-Life-Biography/dp/B0006S09ZW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279156248&sr=1-2
because it has 350 pages compared to the one by Jennifer Moorcraft which has only 160 or so pages. :reading: He is my Heaven is another one I'd like to read as well as My Sister St Therese and I'm sure there are a few more I'm forgetting right now. It was one of the Sisters in Armstrong who suggested I read Teresa of the Andes and Bl Elizabeth of the Trinity saying any Catholic bookstore should have them. Guess what? Not my Catholic bookstore! Thats why I'm really thankful for online stores like Amazon where I can get all these saint/religious life books and not raise the suspicions of the people who run the bookstore, and who know me, by asking them to order stuff for me.

[emmaberry]

I just watched the mini-series and found out that St Teresa of the Andes entered Carmel on May 7th-my birthday! What a great film.

[OnlySunshine]

Thank you so much for bumping up this thread! I had totally forgotten about her feast day since it's not on my feast day calendar! I'm writing it in and I am so glad I didn't miss it.