Why look for more?

...those who seek the LORD lack no good thing. - Psalm 34:10b 

One day St. Teresa of Avila heard someone say: "If only I had lived at the time of Jesus... If only I had seen Jesus... If only I had talked with Jesus..."

To this she responded: "But do we not have in the Eucharist the living, true and real Jesus present before us? Why look for more? In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence."

St Teresa of Avila

 Spain ~ 1515-1582

Carmelite Contemplative, Reformer

Prolific Writer*

*Way of Perfection, Interior Castle,

The Life of Teresa of Jesus (Autobiography)

DOCTOR of the CHURCH

FEAST DAY - October 15

  St. Teresa’s most popularly known writing is a brief poem known as her 

“Bookmark”, because it was found in her prayer book after her death in 1582.

Original Spanish:

Nada te turbe,
nada te espante;
todo se pasa,
Dios no se muda.
La pacientia todo lo alcanza.
Quien a Dios tiene nada la falta:
solo Dios basta.

Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices. 

Click here: St. Teresa of Avila - YouTube (2 mins)

Click here: Discovering our Saints - St Theresa of Avila - YouTube (2:22 mins)

St Teresa of Avila, pray for us!