An edition of The life of St. Teresa of Jesus of the order of Our Lady of Carmel
(1888)
The life of St. Teresa of Jesus of the order of Our Lady of Carmel.
Written By Herself.
by Teresa of Avila and Lewis, David 1814-1895
- 0 Ratings
- 1 Want to read
- 0 Currently reading
- 0 Have read
Share
×Close
Last edited by Tom Morris
January 24, 2022 | History
This edition doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one?
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Showing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
| Edition | Availability |
|---|---|
1
Life of St. Teresa of Jesus Of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel
July 2003, Kessinger Publishing
Paperback
in English
0766172686 9780766172685
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
|
bbbb
|
3
|
zzzz
|
4
|
bbbb
|
5
The life of St. Teresa of Jesus of the order of Our Lady of Carmel.: Written By Herself.
1898, Burns & Oates
in English
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
6
The life of St. Teresa of Jesus of the order of Our Lady of Carmel
1888, St. Anselms' Society
in English
- 2nd ed.
|
bbbb
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Published in
London, England
Table of Contents
CONTENTS.
Prologue 1
I. Childhood and early Impressions — The Blessing of pious Parents — Desire of Martyrdom — Death of the Saint's Mother 2
II. Early Impressions — Dangerous Books and Companions — The Saint is placed in a Monastery 6
III. The Blessing of being with good People — How certain Illusions wore removed 12
IV. Our Lord helps her to become a Nun — Her many Infirmities 15
V. Illness and Patience of the Saint — The Story of a Priest whom she rescued from a Life of Sin 22
VI. The great Debt she owed to our Lord for His Mercy to her — She takes S. Joseph for her Patron 30
VII. Lukewarmness — The Loss of Grace — Inconvenience of Laxity in Religious Houses 37
VIII. The Saint ceases not to pray — Prayer the way to recover what is lost — All exhorted to pray — The great Advantage of Prayer, even to those who may have ceased from it 51
IX. The Means whereby our Lord quickened her Soul, gave her Light in her Darkness, and made her strong in Goodness 58
X. The Graces she received in Prayer — What we can do ourselves — The great Importance of understanding what our Lord is doing for us — She desires her Confessors to keep her Writings secret, because of the special Graces of our Lord to her, which they had commanded her to describe 63
XI. Why Men do not attain quickly to the perfect Love of God — Of four Degrees of Prayer — Of the first Degree — The Doctrine profitable for Beginners, and for those who have no sensible Sweetness 70
XII. What we can ourselves do — The Evil of desiring to attain to supernatural States before our Lord calls us 80
XIII. Of certain Temptations of Satan — Instructions relating thereto 84
XIV. The second State of Prayer — Its supernatural Character 96
XV. Instructions for 'those who have attained to the Prayer of Quiet — Many advance so far, but few go farther 103
XVI. The third State of Prayer — Deep Matters — What the Soul can do that has reached it — Effects of the great Graces of our Lord 113
XVII. The third State of Prayer — The Effects thereof — The Hindrance caused by the Imagination and the Memory 119
XVIII. The fourth State of Prayer — The great Dignity of the Soul raised to it by our Lord — Attainable on Earth, not by our Merit, but by the Goodness of our Lord 124
XIX. The Effects of this fourth State of Prayer — Earnest Exhortations to those who have attained to it not to go back, nor to cease from Prayer, even if they fall — The great Calamity of going back 132
XX. The Difference between Union and Rapture — What Rapture is — The Blessing it is to the Soul — The Effects of it 142
XXI. Conclusion of the Subject — Pain of the Awakening — Light against Delusions 158
XXII. The Security of Contemplatives lios in their not ascending to high Things if our Lord does not raise them — The Sacred Humanity must be the Road to the highest Contemplation — A Delusion in which the Saint was once entangled 164
XXIII. The Saint resumes the History of her Life — Aiming at Perfection — Means whereby it may be gained — Instructions for Confessors 176
XXIV. Progress under Obedience — Her Inability to resist the Graces of God — God multiplies His Graces 186
XXV. Divine Locutions — Delusions on that Subject 191
XXVI. How the Fears of the Saint vanished — How she was assured that her Prayer was the Work of the Holy Spirit 203
XXVII. The Saint prays to be directed by a different Way — Intellectual Visions 208
XXVIII. Visions of the Sacred Humanity and of the glorified Bodies — Imaginary Visions — Great Fruits thereof when they come from God 219
XXIX. Of Visions — The Graces our Lord bestowed on the Saint — The Answers our Lord gave her for those who tried her 230
XXX. S. Peter of Alcantara comforts the Saint — Great Temptations and Interior Trials 239
XXXI. Of certain outward Temptations and Appearances of Satan — Of the Sufferings thereby occasioned — Counsels for those who go on unto Perfection 252
XXXII. Our Lord shows S. Teresa the Place which she had by her Sins deserved in Hell — The Torments there — How the Monastery of S. Joseph was founded 265
XXXIII. The Foundation of the Monastery hindered — Our Lord consoles the Saint 274
XXXIV. The Saint leaves her Monastery of the Incarnation for a time, at the Command of her Superior — Consoles an afflicted Widow 284
XXXV. The Foundation of the House of S. Joseph — Observance of holy Poverty therein — How the Saint left Toledo 295
XXXVI. The Foundation of the Monastery of S. Joseph — Persecution and Temptations — Great interior Trial of the Saint, and her Deliverance 304
XXXVII. The Effects of the divine Graces in the Soul — The inestimable Greatness of one Degree of Glory 320
XXXVIII. Certain heavenly Secrets, Visions, and Revelations — The Effects of them in her Soul 327
XXXIX. Other Graces bestowed on the Saint — The Promises of our Lord to her — Divine Locutions and Visions 342
XL. Visions, Revelations, and Locutions 356
THE RELATIONS.
I. Sent to S. Peter of Alcantara in 1560 from the Monastery of the Incarnation, Avila 373
II. To one of her Confessors, from the House of Dona Luisa de la Cerda, in 1562 386
III. Of various Graces granted to the Saint from the year 1568 to 1571 inclusive 392
IV. Of the Graces the Saint received in Salamanca at the end of Lent 1571 400
V. Observations on certain Points of Spirituality 403
VI. The Vow of Obedience to Father Gratian which the Saint made in 1575 409
VII. Made for Rodrigo Alvarez, S.J., in the year 1575, according to Don Vicente de la Fuente ; but in 1576, according to the Bollandists and F. Bouix 412
VIII. Addressed to F. Rodrigo Alvarez 421
IX. Of certain spiritual Graces she received in Toledo and Avila in the years 1576 and 1577 430
X. Of a Revelation to the Saint at Avila, 1579, and of certain Directions concerning the Government of the Order 439
XI. Written from Palenciain May 1581, and addressed to Don Alonzo Velasquez, Bishop of Osma, who had been, when Canon of Toledo, one of the Saint's Confessors 440
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?Lists
See All
| January 24, 2022 | Edited by Tom Morris | merge authors |
| August 13, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | remove fake subjects |
| November 4, 2015 | Edited by ww2archive | added edition |
| November 23, 2012 | Edited by Anand Chitipothu | Reverted spam |
| October 27, 2009 | Created by WorkBot | add works page |