God suffices...

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

 

“Approaching the Sacrament would at once make
me feel so well, both in soul and in body, that I was astounded.

I would feel as if all the darkness in my soul had suddenly
been dispersed and the sun had come out and shown me
the stupidity of the things I had been saying and doing.

At other times, if the Lord spoke only one word to me…
‘Be not troubled: have no fear’…one word completely cured me.”

  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 

 Image: St Teresa of Avila Receiving Communion - Claudio Coello

 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!