October 15: Begging in Santa Teresa d'Avila

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

15 OCTOBER

SANTA TERESA D'AVILA

(Saint Teresa of Jesus)

Born in 1515, a teacher of doctrine and spiritual experience, Teresa was the first woman in history to whom PaoloVI was awarded the title of "doctor of the Church". At twenty he entered the Carmelite monastery in his city, living for a long time an existence without particular impulses, also because of the rather "relaxed" lifestyle of the community of nuns. The turning point came about forty years, when an extraordinary interior experience pushed her to become a courageous reformer of the Carmelite Order, with the aim of bringing him back to the spirit and austerity of the primitive rule, in this work of reform he encountered many difficulties and oppositions, but Teresa's tireless activity was supported by an extraordinarily lively and profound spiritual life, which made her perceive the presence of God and experience the mystical phenomena described in many of her books. She died, exhausted from fatigue, in 1582, during one of her numerous pastoral journeys, with these last words: "Finally, O Spouse of mine, it is time for us to embrace each other!".