The 500th celebration of the birth of the amazing Carmelite, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) Mystic, Author and Renewer of the Church, recognized by Roman Catholics as a Doctor of the Church, one of 2 women so recognized. (I see she even has a twitter account!)

    Psalm 18:1

I love you 
O Lord, my 
strength; 
O Lord, my 
stronghold, 
my crag &
my haven. 

          Let nothing

          disturb thee,

          Nothing 

          affright thee

          All things 

          are passing;

          God never 

          changeth;

          Patient 

          endurance

          Attaineth 

          to all things;

          Who God possesseth

          In nothing is wanting;

          Alone God sufficeth.

                 St Teresa of Avila,  

                -H. W. Longfellow (translator).

Pray 

for patience in suffer-ing; For the gift of love that overcomes opposition & prose-cution; For intensity of the spiritual life; For the contemplative orders of the church; for those who con-duct retreats & for retreat houses; For those who cannot or will not pray. (the won-derful New Lutheran Book…)