Opening the eyes of the soul...

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

"After having received the Lord, since you have the 
Person Himself present, strive to close the eyes of the body 
and open those of the soul and look into your heart.
For I tell you again, and would like to tell you many 

times that you should acquire the habit of doing this 

every time you receive Communion 

and strive to have such a conscience that you 
will be allowed to enjoy this blessing frequently.

Though He comes disguised, the disguise as I have said, 
does not prevent Him from being recognized 
in many ways, in conformity with the desire we have 
to see Him. And you can desire to see Him so much 
that He will reveal Himself to you entirely." 

St. Teresa of Avila: Way of Perfection 34:12.

  St Teresa of Avila

 Spain ~ 1515-1582

Carmelite Contemplative, Reformer, Mystic,

Prolific Writer*

*Way of Perfection, Interior Castle,

The Life of Teresa of Jesus (Autobiography)

DOCTOR of the CHURCH

Feast Day - October 15

Painting: St Teresa of Avila Receiving Communion - Claudio Coello

"Trust God that you are exactly 
where you are meant to be." 
St Teresa of Avila

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Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. 
All things are passing.  God does not change. 
Patience wins all things.  For God alone suffices.
St Teresa of Avila's Bookmark

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"Accustom yourself continually to make many 
acts of love for they enkindle and melt the soul." 
St Teresa of Avila

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

St Teresa of Avila, pray for us!

Saintward bound...

  "God would never inspire me 

with desires which cannot be realised; 

so in spite of my littleness I can 

hope to be a saint." - St Therese of Lisieux

"As believers, all of us are called to 

live our lives for and from the Eucharist 

because then we will be 

living our lives for and from Jesus. 

These graces, these principles, 

were and are the building blocks we see 

in the lives of all the saints.  They can 

be found in every single biography 

of every single saint." 

Fr Barry Braum 

That I May See:  Journeying from 

Spiritual Confusion and Blindness

to the Radiance of the Eucharist

Artist: Ellen Busselli

Longing fulfilled...

  As a deer pants for streams of water, so my soul

pants for You, O God.  My soul thirsts for God,

for the living God. ... Deep calls to deep. - Psalm 42:1,2,7a

 

 

 

"The house of my soul is narrow.

O let it be enlarged by You!

It is very ruinous;

be pleased to repair it."

St Augustine

 

Image: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, The Triumph of the Eucharist

We are expected in heaven...

 "Our goal must be infinite, not the finite. 

The infinite is our homeland.

 We have always been expected in heaven."
St Carlo Acutis

 

"The more Eucharist we receive,

the more we will become like Jesus,

so that on this earth we will

have a foretaste of Heaven."

St Carlo Acutis

1991-2006/Death from Leukemia

Computer genius/Eucharistic passion

Carlo Acutis Eucharistic Miracles Exhibition

Beatified: 10/10/20 in Assisi

Canonized: 09/07/25 in Roma

Feast Day - Oct 12

 

 

"When we face the sun we get a tan...

but when we stand before Jesus 

in the Eucharist we become saints." 

 St Carlo Acutis

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Beatification Carlo Acutis: Computer whiz first millennial declared Blessed

17 Things Every Catholic Should Know About Carlo Acutis

St Carlo Acutis, pray for us!

Solution to our troubles...

 The Lord's Day is the lord of days... but also remembering today>>> 

Pope St John XIII  

"My life seems destined to be spent in 

the light irradiating from the Blessed Sacrament, 

and it is the heart of Jesus that I must look to 

for the solution of all my troubles." - St John XXIII

"In the Blessed Sacrament

a heavenly school is open to you,

with the best teacher

one can possibly imagine,
Jesus Christ Himself."

Pope St John XXIII

Italy ~ 1881-1963

Pope ~ 1958-1963

Always close to the suffering and the poor

Dubbed by media as "the good Pope"

Feast Day - Oct 11*

*Opening day of Vatican II (1962)

Click here: List of encyclicals of Pope John XXIII 

Click here: John XXIII: key points in the life of 'The Good Pope' - YouTube

Click here: TOP 25 QUOTES BY POPE JOHN XXIII (of 57)
Click here: WMF: St. John XXIII - Pope of Innocence and Goodness - YouTube (5 mins)
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Perhaps the testimony of the world 

at the death of Pope John XXIII 

was best expressed by a newspaper drawing of the earth

shrouded in mourning with the simple caption, 

"A Death in the Family."

St John XXIII, pray for us!