OCTOBER 15 SANTA TERESA D'AVILA. Prayer to ask for a grace

O Saint Teresa, who through your constancy in prayer, reached the highest peaks of contemplation and you were pointed out by the Church as a teacher of prayer, obtain from the Lord the grace to learn your style of prayer in order to be able to reach that intimate like you friendship with God from whom we know we are loved.

1. Most beloved our Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for the great gift of God's love

granted to your beloved St. Teresa; and for your merits and for this very dear wife of yours Teresa,

please grant us the great and necessary grace of your perfect love.

Pater, Ave, Glory

2. Our sweetest Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for the gift given to your beloved St. Teresa

of tender devotion to your most sweet Mother Mary, and to your putative father St. Joseph;

and for your merits and that of your holy bride Teresa, please give us grace

of a special and tender devotion to our heavenly Mother Maria SS. and our great

protector St. Joseph.

Pater, Ave, Glory

3. Most loving our Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for the singular privilege granted to your beloved Saint Teresa of the wound of the heart; and for your merits and that of your holy bride Teresa, please give us such a wound of love, and grant us, giving us those graces that we ask you through her intercession.

Pater, Ave, Glory