Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Indeed!



Teresa of Avila Called an Antidote to New Age Deceits: Spanish Bishop Notes Advance of "Pseudo-mysticism"

I have always loved St. Teresa of Avila. When, at that point in my life, I started taking my faith seriously, there was no Catholic book industry in the way there is now. What there was, and what I appreciated, where the writings that were left by many of the Church's Saints. That's how St. Teresa became a favourite of mine. Both she and St. John of the Cross, writing as Christian mystics, produced terrific, yet difficult, works, which meant that they had to be worked at to be understood. The learning process was a struggle, but the rewards are surely worth it...


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