Pope: The Christian life is to Live Baptism. "Trust and love are the end points of the story of her life, two words that, like beacons, illuminated her whole saintly path." With these words, Benedict …More
Pope: The Christian life is to Live Baptism.
"Trust and love are the end points of the story of her life, two words that, like beacons, illuminated her whole saintly path." With these words, Benedict XVI summed up the figure of Teresa of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, who died aged just 24 at the end of the nineteenth century. A Carmelite, an "expert in the scientia amoris," Therese becomes the bride of Jesus to save souls and pray for priests. Author of the book "The Story of a Soul," she suffered the last years of her life in illness, a test spent "in deep union with the Passion of Jesus." "This is the passion of the body," said the Pope during his general audience catechesis, "but mostly it's the passion of the soul, a painful test of fai ...
"Trust and love are the end points of the story of her life, two words that, like beacons, illuminated her whole saintly path." With these words, Benedict XVI summed up the figure of Teresa of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, who died aged just 24 at the end of the nineteenth century. A Carmelite, an "expert in the scientia amoris," Therese becomes the bride of Jesus to save souls and pray for priests. Author of the book "The Story of a Soul," she suffered the last years of her life in illness, a test spent "in deep union with the Passion of Jesus." "This is the passion of the body," said the Pope during his general audience catechesis, "but mostly it's the passion of the soul, a painful test of fai ...
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