Tag: AQUINAS

  • MAIN SAINTS & THEIR WRITINGS I

    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