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Also known as: Juanita
Fernandez Solar; Teresa of the Andes; Teresa of Jesus of the Andes
Memorial: 13 July
Profile
From her adolescence she was devoted to Christ. She entered the monastery
of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns at Los Andes on 7 May 1919, and was given
the name Teresa of Jesus. A model for young people. The first Chilean and
the first member of the Teresian Carmel in Latin America to be beatified.
Born: 13 July 1900 at Santiago, Chile as Juanita Fernandez Solar
Died: 12 April 1920 at Los Andes, Chile
Beatified: 3 April 1987 at Santiago, Chile by Pope John Paul II
Canonized: 21 March 1993 by Pope John Paul II
Patronage: bodily ills, illness, sick people, sickness, young people
in general
Readings
There will never be any separation between our souls. I will live in Him.
Search for Jesus and in Him you'll find me; and there the three of us will
continue our intimate conversations, the ones we'll be carrying on there
forever in eternity.
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Love is the fusion of two souls in one in order to bring about mutual
perfection.
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Though I am absent from you, this changes nothing in our relationship. I
am always with you, invisibly assisting you in all you do.
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And if my prayers are worth anything, you can count on them for the rest
of my life; because every day I have you with me at communion time.
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How much time has passed since we last saw each other, but our souls are
always one in the Divine Jesus.
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A Carmelite sanctifies herself in order to make all the Church's members
holy.
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The goal she (a Carmelite) proposes to herself is very great: to pray and
sanctify herself for sinners and priests. To sanctify herself for sinners
and priests. To sanctify herself so that the divine sap may be
communicated through the union that exists between the faithful and all
members of the Church. She immolates herself on the cross, and her blood
falls on sinners, pleading for mercy and repentance, for on the cross she
is intimately united to Jesus Christ. Her blood, then, is mixed with His
Divine Blood.
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A Carmelite is a sister to priests. Both priest and sister offer a host of
holocaust for the salvation of the world. A Sister sanctifies herself,
that by being more united to God, the blood of the Divine Prisoner which
she receives in her soul might circulate through the other members of
Christ's Body. In a word, a Sister sanctifies herself to sanctify her
brothers.
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This pains me greatly; to see that I'm sensibly experiencing feelings of
great love. Sometimes it even reaches the point of taking my strength away
or the desire to do anything but stretch out on the bed.
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Let's live intimately united with Him, since one who loves tends to be
united with the one loved. The fusing of two souls is done through love.
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It's true, my dear little sister, we don't live together; but you live in
God and I do, too. There, in that abyss of love, we'll live as one.
Everything in God is indivisible; we, too, will be inseparable.
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Sometimes I felt such great love it seemed I could not go on living if
these desires continued any longer…Once when the violence of love took
hold of me, I grasped a needle and on my chest drew these letters: J.A.M.,
which means Jesus My Love.
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Despite the distance separating us, my soul will always be one with yours.
We both form but a single soul, isn't that so?.
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Join me in spirit at 11:30 and at 6. At those times I'm alone with Him,
behind my beloved grills.
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Why do you feel so alone? Aren't we always really one in our Divine
Master? Can you be thinking that your Carmelite sister has no room in her
heart to love the one who is part of her very being…? You are with me
always; we are still working together.
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I hope that you are always joined with my Jesus and so joined with your
Carmelite sister, too.
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When we're there in His presence, if just gazing at Him is enough to make
us love Him, and if we are so captivated by His beauty that we can't say
anything but that we love Him, why, little sister, should we be upset?
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How I would have loved, mother dear, to be by your side to console and
weep with you. But our souls met by the tabernacle.
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He leaves His angels and millions of people, to come into your soul, to
consummate in you the most intimate union, to transform you into God, to
nourish in you the life of grace with which you will attain heaven.
from the letters of Saint Terese of the Andes |
