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SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS

Journeying with Thomas Aquinas

January 28: St. Thomas Aquinas, Priest & Doctor

SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

The Catholic Reader: St. Teresa’s Nine Grades of Prayer

http://thecatholicreader.blogspot.com/2013/06/st-teresas-nine-grades-of-prayer.html

St Teresa of Avila’s Nine Grades of Prayer 

Modos en la oración teresiana – Carmelitas Descalzas de Cádiz

St. Teresa’s Teaching on the Grades of Prayer

https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=7725

Saint Teresa of Avila | A Life of Mystical Experience | Carmelite Saint

SANTA TERESA DE JESÚS: POEMA – Vivo sin vivir en mí, de Teresa de Jesús


Vivo sin vivir en mí,
y tan alta vida espero,
que muero porque no muero.
Vivo ya fuera de mí,
después que muero de amor;
porque vivo en el Señor,
que me quiso para sí:
cuando el corazón le di
puso en él este letrero,
que muero porque no muero.
Esta divina prisión,
del amor en que yo vivo,
ha hecho a Dios mi cautivo,
y libre mi corazón;
y causa en mí tal pasión
ver a Dios mi prisionero,
que muero porque no muero.
¡Ay, qué larga es esta vida!
¡Qué duros estos destierros,
esta cárcel, estos hierros
en que el alma está metida!
Sólo esperar la salida
me causa dolor tan fiero,
que muero porque no muero.
¡Ay, qué vida tan amarga
do no se goza el Señor!
Porque si es dulce el amor,
no lo es la esperanza larga:
quíteme Dios esta carga,
más pesada que el acero,
que muero porque no muero.
Sólo con la confianza
vivo de que he de morir,
porque muriendo el vivir
me asegura mi esperanza;
muerte do el vivir se alcanza,
no te tardes, que te espero,
que muero porque no muero.
Mira que el amor es fuerte;
vida, no me seas molesta,
mira que sólo me resta,
para ganarte perderte.
Venga ya la dulce muerte,
el morir venga ligero
que muero porque no muero.
Aquella vida de arriba,
que es la vida verdadera,
hasta que esta vida muera,
no se goza estando viva:
muerte, no me seas esquiva;
viva muriendo primero,
que muero porque no muero.
Vida, ¿qué puedo yo darle
a mi Dios que vive en mí,
si no es el perderte a ti,
para merecer ganarle?
Quiero muriendo alcanzarle,
pues tanto a mi Amado quiero,
que muero porque no muero.

BIOGRAFIA


Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada ( 1515-1582), Teresa de Ávila o Teresa de Jesús como religiosa, santa Teresa para la Iglesia desde 1622, es una de las figuras señeras de la vida espiritual de todos los tiempos. Fundadora de la Orden de los Carmelitas Descalzos, por la que se reformaba una orden anterior, la de Nuestra Señora del Monte Carmelo, del siglo XII, viene hoy a este blog por otra faceta suya menos conocida pero no menos valiosa: como escritora, como poeta, como figura estelar -con san Juan de la Cruz, colaborador suyo en la reforma carmelita- de la poesía mística.
La mística es una corriente espiritual, presente en varias religiones, no solo el cristianismo, que busca el grado máximo de unión del alma con la divinidad durante la existencia terrenal. La mística cristiana es una corriente que arranca en Pablo de Tarso (san Pablo) y los llamados padres de la Iglesia (san Agustín, san Gregorio, san Ambrosio y san Jerónimo), pasa por santo Tomás de Aquino y desemboca, entre nosotros, en figuras como san Juan de Ávila, fray Luis de León, san Juan de la Cruz y santa Teresa.
Eclipsada por la Teresa de Jesús religiosa, la Teresa de Jesús poeta no fue suficientemente apreciada hasta el siglo XIX, muchísimos años después de su muerte. El poema de hoy, con esa paradoja constante de morir para vivir plenamente, de la muerte como liberación, como la mejor vía para la fusión con dios, es ejemplar tanto en su contenido como en su continente. Este, un villancico, una forma poética y musical que entre los siglos XV y XVIII se usaba en castellano y en portugués tanto para temas profanos como para asuntos religiosos. Un estribillo con el que acababan las estrofas era uno de sus signos distintivos. Aquí, ese «que muero porque no muero» que ha acabado siendo parte del acervo popular en nuestro idioma.

SAINT TERESA’S 7 STAGES OF SPIRITUAL GROWTH

Saint Teresa’s 7 Mansions

Les sept demeures de sainte Thérèse d’Avila pour les nuls, par Arnaud Dumouch

Les sept demeures de Thérèse d’Avila

https://www.la-croix.com/Definitions/Figures-spirituelles/sept-demeures-Therese-dAvila-2021-10-13-1701180311

SAINT TERESE OF LISIEUX

Saint Therese of Lisieux

CATHOLICISM – Bishop Barron on Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

SAINT FAUSTINA

Who was St. Faustina?

A Quick Summary of this Critical Saint for Today – Ask a Marian

Saint Faustina Kowalska and the story of Divine mercy

We celebrate her Feast day on October 5th

St. Faustina: Her Life and Spirituality

Explaining the Faith

Full text of Saint Faustina’s “Diary”

The early opposition to the writings of St. Faustina and Luisa Piccarreta

Saint Faustina & Divine Mercy

PURGATORY: SANTA FAUSTINA

PURGATORY: When a nun covered in flames appeared to St. Faustina

Hell: Faustina Kowalska: “I have seen hell, I will tell you what happens, I beg you, please listen to me!”

Stations of the Cross – Saint Faustina’s Way of The Cross

https://www.shrineofdivinemercy.org/stations-way-2

Via Crucis basado en el Diario de Santa Faustina

https://www.corazones.org/espiritualidad/via_crucis_escritos_stfaustina.htm

SAINT GEMMA GALGANI

SAINT GEMMA GALGANI AND HER GUARDIAN ANGEL

Why would God allow St. Gemma Galgani to see worms in her food?

Catholic priest explains.

St Gemma meditating on Hell and her sins

St. Gemma Book that the Devil Tried to Burn. Here’s Why.

Saint Gemma: soul victim

The Beautiful Story of How St. Gemma Galgani saved a prostitute from Satan

SAINT GEMMA GALGANI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemma_Galgani

After a thorough examination of her life by the Church, Galgani was beatified on 14 May 1933 and canonized on 2 May 1940. Galgani’s relics are housed at the Sanctuary of Santa Gemma associated with the Passionist monastery in Lucca, Italy. Her bronze effigy atop her tomb was crafted by sculptor Francesco Nagni. In 1985, her heart was enshrined in the Santuario de Santa Gema in Madrid, Spain. Gemma Galgani’s confessor, Germano Ruoppolo, produced her biography

When St. Gemma Galgani asked Jesus: Why He did not take her to heaven?
https://www.stgemmagalgani.com/2010/03/i-want-to-see-jesus-i-want-to-be-with.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvxKEsQV4xA

SAINT PADRE PIO

The Greatest Saint of Our Times: Padre Pio and the Stigmata

Explaining the Faith

Confession with Padre Pio

PADRE PIO AND SIMPLICITY

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZAL9ZyNuU3Y

ABSOLUTE MUSTE SEE: LIFE OF SAINT PIO OF PIETRELCINA

MYSTIC OF THE STIGMATA

PADRE PIO’S BEATINGS FROM DEMONS

The Extraordinary Life of Padre Pio

Unveiling His Mysteries and Miracles.

MILAGRO DE PADRE PIO: Sacerdote fue fusilado pero un milagro del Padre Pío le devolvió a la vida: explica lo que vio en el Cielo

https://www.religionenlibertad.com/personajes/220715/fue-fusilado-pero-milagro-del-padre-pio-devolvio_71186.html

PADRE PIO: LA VIE DES SAINTS

SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

Saint John of the Cross | Stories of Saints | Episode 116

THE SPIRITUAL CANTICLE by Saint John of the Cross

https://www.ccel.org/ccel/john_cross/canticle.ii.html

SPIRITUAL CANTICLE by Saint John of the Cross
1542-1591,_Ioannes_a_Cruce,_A_Spiritual_Canticle_Of_The_Soul,_EN.pdf
Stages-of-Spiritual-Journey-by-St-John-of-Cross.pdf

https://where-you-are.net/books/english/audio-books/st-john-of-the-cross-spiritual-canticle

The Mystical Teaching of St. John of the Cross

MUST SEE MOVIE: SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

San Juan de la Cruz

Presencia escondida de Dios en el centro del alma, según San Juan de la Cruz – Teresa, de la rueca a la pluma

THE LEVELS OF SPIRITUALITY OF SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS

ACTIVE AND PASSIVE NIGHTS OF THE SOUL

“The divinization of one’s passivities.”

This is a line from one of the great spiritual works of the twentieth century, The Divine Milieu by the French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In that seminal text, Teilhard famously distinguished between the divinization of one’s activities and the divinization of one’s passivities. The former is a noble spiritual move, consisting in the handing over of one’s achievements and accomplishments to the purposes of God. A convinced Jesuit, Teilhard desired to devote all that he did (and he did a lot) ad majorem Dei gloriam (to the greater glory of God). But this attitude, Teilhard felt, came nowhere near the spiritual power of divinizing one’s passivities. By this he meant the handing over of one’s suffering to God, the surrendering to the Lord of those things that are done to us, those things over which we have no control. We become sick; a loved one dies suddenly; we lose a job; a much-desired position goes to someone else; we are unfairly criticized; we find ourselves, unexpectedly, in the valley of the shadow of death. These experiences lead some people to despair, but the spiritually alert person should see them as a particularly powerful way to come to union with God. A Christian would readily speak here of participating in the cross of Christ. Indeed how strange that the central icon of the Christian faith is not of some great achievement or activity, but rather of something rather horrible being done to a person. The point is that suffering, offered to God, allows the Lord to work his purpose out with unsurpassed power.

In some ways, Teilhard’s distinction is an echo of St. John of the Cross’s distinction between the “active” and “passive” nights of the soul. For the great Spanish master, the dark night has nothing to do with psychological depression, but rather with a pruning away of attachments that keep one from complete union with God. This pruning can take a conscious and intentional form (the active night) or it can be something endured. In a word, we can rid ourselves of attachments—or God can do it for us. The latter, St. John thinks, is far more powerful and cleansing than the former.

SAINT MAXIMILIAN KOLBE

The Milicia of the Inmaculada? (la película subtitulada en español)

Who is St. Maximilian Kolbe? – 14 mn

St. Maximilian Kolbe – 2mn

Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe

SAINT BERNADETTE SOUBIROUS

St. Bernadette Soubirous – My Name Is Bernadette

Catholic Culture Audiobooks

Incorrupt Body of St. Bernadette (Nevers, France)

St.Bernadette: A Life of Faith and Wonder

Bernadette Soubirous, cuerpo incorrupto y testamento espiritual.

SAINT AUGUSTINE

A Life of Heroic Sanctity: Augustine of Hippo

“The Confessions of St. Augustine” – Full Audiobook

ENGLISH

Les Confessions de Saint Augustin

FRENCH:

Las Confesiones de San Agustín | Filosofía Religiosa | Audiolibros en Español Completos

SPANISH:

San Agustín en 3 Minutos – El Santo del Día – 28 de Agosto


SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA

THE DIALOGUE OF SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA

PDF:

AUDIO:

THE DIALOGUE – by Saint Catherine of Siena
https://www.saintsbooks.net/books/St.%20Catherine%20of%20Siena%20-%20The%20Dialogue%20of%20the%20Seraphic%20Virgin.html

CATHERINE OF SIENA USED TO CAST OUT DEMONS IN THE NAME OF JESUS

A Unique Relic: Catherine of Siena’s Skull

CATHERINE OF SIENA USED TO CAST OUT DEMONS IN THE NAME OF JESUS

SAINT PATRICK

Story of Saint Patrick | English | Stories of Saints

St. Patrick (17 March): Embrace Your Suffering Like Patrick Did

SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL

Biographie de Saint Vincent de Paul

Vincent de Paul a donné comme maxime à ses lazaristes Evangelizare pauperibus. Évangéliser les pauvres partout dans le monde.

Vincent de Paul ou Vincent Depaul, né le 24 avril 1581 au village de Pouy près de Dax et mort le 27 septembre 1660 à Paris, est un prêtre et une figure du renouveau spirituel, apostolique du catholicisme français du XVIIe siècle. Fondateur de congrégations, il œuvra tout au long de sa vie pour soulager la misère matérielle et morale. Il a été canonisé en 1737.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_de_Paul

https://www.ktotv.com/video/00143470/les-lazaristes

Vincent de Paul : trésors d’estampes

https://www.unilim.fr/vincent-de-paul-estampes/accueil/estampes-images-et-analyses/le-bienheureux-vincent-de-paul-fondateur-de-la-congregation-de-la-mission-et-des-filles-de-la-charite-2/

MOVIE: Monsieur Vincent (French Eng 1947 )

Pierre Fresnay, Aimé Clariond, Jean Debucourt

https://m.ok.ru/video/2718319839924

SAINT CATHERINE EMMERICH

Biography

Anne Catherine Emmerich, Augustinian nun, stigmatic, and ecstatic, b. September 8, 1774, d. February 9, 1824

https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/anne-catherine-emmerich

BLESSED ANNE CATHERINE EMMERICH: VISION OF ADAM AND EVE TO THE FLOOD

MINUTE 47′

Synopsis – The complete visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich

Synopsis

Full text of “The Life And Revelations Of Anne Catherine Emmerich Complete”

https://archive.org/details/TheLifeAndRevelationsOfAnneCatherineEmmerichComplete

The Life of Jesus Christ in a Year: From the Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich

Fall of the Angels – Creation of the Earth: From the Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich

Fall of the Angels – Creation of the Earth

Adam and Eve – The Tree of Life and The Tree of Knowledge: From the Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich

Sin and Its Consequences – The Fall : From the Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich

The Old Testament – The complete visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich

The Old Testament – Part 2

SAINT CATHERINE EMMERICH – THE NATIVITY

Apparitions of the Dead in Jerusalem at Jesus’ death

From the Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich

The 40 days of Jesus: from the writings of Anne Catherine Emmerich

The fall of angels: from the writings of Anne Catherine Emmerich

Minute 15:47

Saint Catherine Emmerich – Abraham and Melchisedec

Saint Catherine Emmerich – The Tower of Babel

Saint Catherine Emmerich – The Fall of the Angels

Saint Catherine Emmerich – Assumption of the Virgin Mary

Saint Catherine Emmerich – Adam and Eve

Saint Catherine Emmerich – Cain and Abel, Nimrod, the fallen angels, Noa and the Flood

SAINT ANTHONY

St. Anthony the Great (17 January)

Do Battle in the Desert of Your Heart – FOUNDER OF MONASTERIES

SAINT ANTHONY – MINUTE 39′

Defeating Demonic Forces: Miraculous Tale of Saint Anthony

St. Anthony’s Power Over Demons

SAINT PHILOMENA

St. Philomena: The Only Saint to Ever Have This

Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar, MIC

Story of Saint Philomena | English | Story of Saints

SAINT BRUNO

Saint Bruno | Obscure Saint

St. Bruno (6 October): The Frightening Reality of Hell

St. Bruno, Founder of the Carthusian Monks (6 October)

Butler’s Lives of the Saints

St. Bruno: Not for Self but for God and Others (6 October)

SAN BRUNO BUSCADOR DEL SILENCIO
https://www.infocatolica.com/blog/historiaiglesia.php/1112311128-bruno-el-buscador-del-silenci


SAINT CARLO ACUTIS

The Life of Blessed Carlo Acutis

SAINT CARLO ACUTIS’ MIRACLES

Tomba di Carlo Acutis – Santuario della Spogliazione –  Assisi

Blessed Carlo Acutis, The Tech Teen who found Jesus

EWTN Vaticano

SAINT DON BOSCO

Don Bosco’s Life Story

The Most Interesting Prophecy of Saint John Bosco | Ep. 66

Don Bosco is Demonically Attacked for Converting Protestants | Ep. 111

Worship God in spirit and in truth / The Catholic Mass and Apocalypse 4– Don Bosco explains

Why Did the Devil Attack Don Bosco? | Ep. 112

PROPHECY ABOUT FRANCE AND ITALY OF DON BOSCO

THE SNARES FROM THE DEVIL TO IMPEDE PEOPLE FROM CONFESSING – DON BOSCO’S VISIONS

January 31: St. John Bosco, Priest

No priest goes to hell or to heaven alone… He always takes others with him – Don Bosco

JOHN BOSCO’S VISIONS OF OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS – “AUXILIORUM CHRISTIANORUM”

Don Bosco and the Devil

OUR LADY’S ADVICE TO THE BOYS OF DON BOSCO

Don Bosco’s Soul Shaking Letters From Our Lady | Ep. 25

THE SNARES FROM THE DEVIL TO IMPEDE PEOPLE FROM CONFESSING

DON BOSCO’S VISIONS

Don Bosco is Demonically Attacked for Converting Protestants | Ep. 111

Worship God in spirit and in truth / The Catholic Mass and Apocalypse 4– Don Bosco explains

Why Did the Devil Attack Don Bosco? | Ep. 112

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