TERESE de los Andes
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Also known as
- Juanita Fernandez Solar; Teresa of the Andes;
Teresa of Jesus of the Andes
- Memorial
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13 July
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Profile
- From her adolescence she was devoted to
Christ. She entered the
monastery of the
Discalced Carmelite nuns at Los Andes on
7 May
1919, and was given the name Teresa of Jesus. A model
for young people. The first
Chilean and the first member of the Teresian
Carmel in
Latin America to be beatified.
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Born
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13 July 1900 at
Santiago,
Chile as Juanita Fernandez Solar
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Died
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12 April 1920 at Los
Andes,
Chile
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Beatified
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3 April 1987 at
Santiago,
Chile by
Pope
John Paul II
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Canonized
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21 March 1993 by
Pope
John Paul II
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Patronage
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bodily ills,
illness,
sick people,
sickness,
young people in general
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Images
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Gallery of images of
Saint Terese
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Additional Information
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CarmelNet
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Readings
- There will never be any separation between
our souls. I will live in Him. Search for Jesus and in Him
you'll find me; and there the three of us will continue our
intimate conversations, the ones we'll be carrying on there
forever in eternity.
Love is
the fusion of two souls in one in order to bring about mutual
perfection. Though I am
absent from you, this changes nothing in our relationship. I am
always with you, invisibly assisting you in all you do.
And if my prayers are worth
anything, you can count on them for the rest of my life; because
every day I have you with me at
Communion time. How much
time has passed since we last saw each other, but our souls are
always one in the Divine Jesus.
A
Carmelite sanctifies herself in order to make all the
Church's members holy. The
goal she (a
Carmelite) proposes to herself is very great: to pray and
sanctify herself for sinners and priests. To sanctify herself
for sinners and priests. To sanctify herself so that the divine
sap may be communicated through the union that exists between
the faithful and all members of the Church. She immolates
herself on the cross, and her blood falls on sinners, pleading
for mercy and repentance, for on the cross she is intimately
united to Jesus Christ. Her blood, then, is mixed with His
Divine Blood. A
Carmelite is a sister to
priests. Both
priest and sister offer a host of holocaust for the
salvation of the world. A Sister sanctifies herself, that by
being more united to God, the blood of the Divine Prisoner which
she receives in her soul might circulate through the other
members of Christ's Body. In a word, a Sister sanctifies herself
to sanctify her brothers.
This pains me greatly; to see that I'm sensibly experiencing
feelings of great love. Sometimes it even reaches the point of
taking my strength away or the desire to do anything but stretch
out on the bed. Let's live
intimately united with Him, since one who loves tends to be
united with the one loved. The fusing of two souls is done
through love. It's true, my
dear little sister, we don't live together; but you live in God
and I do, too. There, in that
abyss of love, we'll live as one. Everything in God is
indivisible; we, too, will be inseparable.
Sometimes I felt such great love it seemed I
could not go on living if these desires continued any
longer…Once when the violence of love took hold of me, I grasped
a needle and on my chest drew these letters: J.A.M., which means
Jesus My Love. Despite the
distance separating us, my soul will always be one with yours.
We both form but a single soul, isn't that so?
Join me in spirit at 11:30 and at 6.
At those times I'm alone with Him, behind my beloved grills.
Why do you feel so alone?
Aren't we always really one in our Divine Master? Can you be
thinking that your
Carmelite sister has no room in her heart to love the one
who is part of her very being…? You are with me always; we are
still working together. I
hope that you are always joined with my Jesus and so joined with
your
Carmelite sister, too.
When we're there in His presence, if just gazing at Him is
enough to make us love Him, and if we are so captivated by His
beauty that we can't say anything but that we love Him, why,
little sister, should we be upset?
How I would have loved, mother dear, to be by
your side to console and weep with you. But our souls met by the
tabernacle. He leaves His
angels and millions of people, to come into your soul, to
consummate in you the most intimate union, to transform you into
God, to nourish in you the life of grace with which you will
attain heaven.
from the letters of Saint Terese of the
Andes
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