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to the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Letters are particularly an immediate approach to the person who wrote them, as they arise from life. This is also true for the letters of St. Teresa from the 16th century...

In the apostolic letter for the new millennium (Tertio millennio adveniente from 1994), the Pope listed several areas of the church's life over which we should examine our conscience...

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...