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Some of these have been elevated by Mother Church to the ranks of the Blesseds and Saints. Teresa of Jesus of Los Andes St. Simon Stock Bl.

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Mary of Jesus Crucified All things pass away. God never changes. Patience obtains everything. God alone is enough. I will send a shower of roses. Enkindle Your love in me and then walk with me along the next stretch of road before me.

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I do not see very far ahead, but when I have arrived where the horizon now closes down, a new prospect will prospect will open before me, and I shall meet it with peace. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Teresa desired to help the Church and obtain the sanctification of priests, John longed to help souls who were seeking union with God to climb the steep slopes of Mount Carmel by teaching them to walk the path of pure faith and complete detachment.

Sep - Oct: First meeting with St. Teresa, who wins John over to her cause. Teresa to Valladolid and remains there several months to learn the Teresian way of life. Nov Inauguration of the Discalced Friars' first house in Duruelo; John is appointed sub-prior and novice master. The two are released through the intervention of the Nuncio. John was born probably in a small town in Old Castile called Fontiveros, in the year , the youngest of three sons. His father was Gonzalo de Ypes and came from a wealthy family of silk merchants; his mother Catarina Alvarez, on the contrary, came from a poor humble weaving family.

It was a love match and Gonzalo paid the price of being cut off from the family fortunes forever. So John grew up experiencing great poverty in his home but also piety, love and gentleness. Finally she moved with her two sons - one of them had died, probably due to malnutrition - to Medina Del Campo.


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This was like an orphanage where the children received food, clothes and lodging and were taught Christian doctrine. Later, he had the opportunity to become an apprentice and learn a trade. While here John was chosen by the priest in charge to be the acolyte in the sacristy of the nearby monastery of Augustinian nuns. He did not seem to have an aptitude for any trade but Don Alonso, the director of the hospital, noticed his great gentleness and patience for the poor who had infectious diseases.

John was employed there, nursing with great compassion the poor people whom others did not wish to come near. Don Alonso continued to take an interest in John and had him enrolled in the Jesuit school where he would be given an excellent education, obtaining a knowledge of grammar, rhetoric, Latin, Greek and the Spanish Classics - tools which would facilitate his later work as a Spanish poet. However instead, in , at the age of twenty one he entered the newly founded monastery of the Carmelites at Medina del Campo. Perhaps he was drawn to the contemplative life.

His devotion to Mary already had a significant place in his spiritual life. After his novitiate year he was sent to Salamanca University to study philosophy and theology. The professors at Salamanca at this time were among some of the most brilliant and renowned scholars in Europe. John became dissatisfied with the academic world of intellectual brilliance with its temptations to ambition and self-excellence.

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It was this that had moved him to ask to be admitted to the Carmelite Order. What does this imitation of Christ involve? For John, it consists in bringing our life into conformity with Christ's, "behaving in all events as he would" ibid. As we have seen, this means, first of all, that we must make the desires and attitudes of Christ our own. We must rid ourselves of our own disordered desires and attitudes, the effects of our sinfulness and selfishness. Whether the desire or attitude has to do with ma terial or spiritual things, it must be brought into conformity with Christ.

Some of the ob vious desires of Christ as found in the New Testament are: to announce and help establish the reign of God; to do the will of the Father in all things; and to unite all people into one in himself.


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The attitudes he displayed in his life include: a radical openness to others, especially the outcasts of his society, those considered sinners, sick, and downtrodden; a spirit of forgiveness, not seven times but seventy times seven; his simple and direct ap proach to prayer; his attitude of total availability to others, even to giving up his own life for their sake.

These, of course, are just some of the more obvious attitudes of Christ that we must make our own. For John, bringing one's life into conformity with Christ's goes even deeper. He notes: "Because Christ is the way and this way is a death to our natural selves in the sensory and spiritual parts of the soul, this death is patterned on Christ's, for he is our model and light" A, 2, 7, 9.

Thus, imitation of Christ involves renunciation, annihilation, self-emptying, dying to our natural selves; it is the way of the cross. In a very powerful passage, John sums up his teaching on Christ the Way:. David says of [Christ]: Ad nihilum redactus sum et nescivi I was brought to nothing and did not understand [Ps ], that those who are truly spiritual might understand the my stery of the door and the way which is Christ leading to union with God, and that they might realize that their union with God and the greatness of the work they accomplish will be measured by their annihilation of themselves for God in the sensory and spiritual parts of the soul.

When they are reduced to nothing, the highest degree of humility, the spiritual union between their souls and God will be an accomplished fact. The journey, then, does not consist in consolations, delights, and spiritual feelings, but in the living death of the cross, sensory and spiritual, exterior and interior. A, 2, 7, This is the way, because it was the way Christ walked.

Christ himself calls us to this when he says: "If any one wishes to follow my way, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me. For he who would save his soul shall lose it, and he who loses life for me and for the gospel shall gain it" Mk This is how Jesus himself did the will of his heavenly Father, giving him honor and glory. To imitate Christ, to conform one's life to his life, to pattern one's life on Christ's is to follow this same way, the way of the cross.

That Jesus is the Truth for John is clearly seen in chapter 22 of the Ascent. There he shows how, with the coming of Christ, it is no longer permissible to petition God for furt her revelations through supernatural means, that is, through visions, locutions, extraordina ry messages, etc. In section 5, John imagines a dialogue between God and a person desi ring a vision or an extraordinary revelation. To such a person:. God could answer as follows: If I have already told you all things in my Word, my Son, and if I have no other word, what answer or revelation can I now make that would surpass this?

Fasten your eyes on him alone because in him I have spoken and revealed all and in him you will discover even more than you ask for and desire. For he is my entire locution and response, vision and revelation, which I have already spoken, answered, manifested, and revealed to you by giving him to you as a brother, companion, master, ransom, and reward. A, 2, 22, 5. In other words, God has already revealed all in Christ, and has no other word or revela tion.

In the following section, John continues:. If you desire me to answer with a word of comfort, behold my Son subject to me and to others out of love for me, and afflicted, and you will see how much he answers you. If you desire me to declare some secret truths or events to you, fix your eyes only on him and you will discern hidden in him the most secret mysteries, and wisdom, and wonders of God.

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A, 2, 22, 6. John repeatedly tells us to fix our eyes on Christ. He is the complete revelation of the Fat her. He has been given to us as "brother, companion, master, ransom, and reward. How does Christ, as Truth, exercise his role in today's world? John goes on to say, in sec tions 7 and 9 of the same chapter, that:.

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We must be guided humanly and visibly in all by the law of Christ, who is human, and that of his Church and of his ministers. Any departure from this road is not only curiosity but extraordinary boldness. One should not believe anything coming in a supernatural way, but believe only the teaching of Christ, who is human, as I say, and of his ministers who are human.

God is so pleased that the rule and direction of humans be through other humans and that a person be governed by natural reason that he definitely does not want us to bestow entire credence on his supernatural communications, or be confirmed in their strength and securi ty, until they pass through this human channel of the mouth of another human person. The Truth is to be found in "Christ, who is human. One should believe only the teaching of Christ, who is human.

Then John, the mystic, says something we might not expect: Because God revealed ever ything to us in Christ, who is human, he wants "the rule and direction of humans to be through other humans. Here we find echoed the great truth that Christ remains with his people, the church, in each of its members. Christ continues to exercise his salvific work in and through other men and women. To find Christ, to be sure that we have his truth, we simply have to turn to one another with the eyes of faith. It is in one another that we will find Christ, through one another that Christ speaks to us.

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Throughout the Gospel Christ affirms that he is the source of eternal life. Talking to the Samaritan woman, Christ tells her that anyone drinking the water that he will give will never thirst again, that this water will become a spring of water welling up to eternal life Jn ff. Elsewhere the Gospel of John says: "Jesus answered them: Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you" Jn Or again: "I am the bread of life.