SAINT OF THE DAY -- April 12 - Saint Teresa of Los Andes
April 12
St. Teresa of Los Andes(1900 - 1920)
I shall take great pains to work for the happiness of others.
My
resolution, to sacrifice myself for others.
I must strive to be more
loving.
One needn’t live a long life to leave a deep imprint. Teresa of Los Andes is proof of that.
As a young girl growing up in Santiago, Chile, in the early 1900s, she
read an autobiography of a French-born saint—Therese, popularly known
as the Little Flower. The experience deepened her desire to serve God
and clarified the path she would follow. At age 19 she became a
Carmelite nun, taking the name of Teresa.
The
convent offered the simple lifestyle Teresa desired and the joy of
living in a community of women completely devoted to God. She focused
her days on prayer and sacrifice. “I am God’s, ” she wrote in her
diary. “He created me and is my beginning and my end. ”
Toward
the end of her short life, Teresa began an apostolate of
letter-writing, sharing her thoughts on the spiritual life with many
people. At age 20 she contracted typhus and quickly took her final
vows. She died a short time later, during Holy Week.
Teresa
remains popular with the estimated 100,000 pilgrims who visit her
shrine in Los Andes each year. She is Chile’s first saint.
Prayer:St. Teresa of Los Andes,
under Mary's care, you became
a young woman in love with Jesus Christ.
You are a model of holiness
and a way of perfection for the Church.
You knew how to laugh, to love, to play and to serve.
You were mighty in accepting sorrows
and generous in your love.
You knew how to contemplate God
in the simple things of life.
Show us the Father's love
so that we might live joyfully in friendship
and with gentleness in our family.
Help those who are weak and sad
so that the Holy Spirit
may awaken hope in them.
Intercede for us
and for the world, pleading for love and peace.
St Teresa of Los Andes,
beloved daughter of the Church,
religious sister of Carmel,
friend of young and old, and servant of the poor,
pray for us each day. Amen.
Source: American Catholic Organization
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Do you:
feel afraid of your partner much of the time?
avoid certain topics fear of angering your partner?
feel that you can’t do anything right for your partner?
believe that you deserve to be hurt or mistreated?
wonder if you’re the one who is crazy?
feel emotionally numb or helpless?
Does your partner:
- humiliate, criticize, or yell at you?
- treat you so badly that you’re embarrassed for your friends or family to see?
- ignore or put down your opinions or accomplishments?
- blame you for his own abusive behavior?
- see you as property or a sex object, rather than as a person?
Does your partner:
have a bad and unpredictable temper?
hurt you, or threaten to hurt or kill you?
threaten to take your children away or harm them?
threaten to commit suicide if you leave?
force you to have sex?
destroy your belongings?
Does your partner:
- act excessively jealous and possessive?
- control where you go or what you do?
- keep you from seeing your friends or family?
- limit your access to money, the phone, or the car?
- constantly check up on you?