Our Picks This Month
- International shipping available to New Zealand!
- Free Australian Shipping for orders valued at $200 or more!
Shopping Cart: now in your cart 16 items
Search:  
Top » Catalog » Saints » 9781781829950 »

Teresa of Avila and Father Gracián: the Story of an Historic Friendship / Erika Lorenz
[9781781829950]

$19.95
Products Qty: 3
Teresa of Avila was an intensely loving person. The deeper her union with God, the more resolute her devotion to others. Most of all she loved her young spiritual director Gracián. This gave rise to all kinds of envy and misunderstanding in the Order. The saint herself wrote imperiously: 'I can permit myself, my father, to show you a great deal of love, but not all nuns may do this.' Yet after the death of Teresa, Gracián, 'Father of the Reform' of the Carmelite Order, went through very hard times: exclusion from the Order, imprisonment by the Moors, homelessness. Posterity has felt obliged to pass over the life of this prudent and lovable priest in silence. This book compares the intensity of feeling reflected in the letters of the Saint, who wrote almost every day to 'her father' and superior, with Gracián's thoughts about Mother Teresa and her love as recorded in his own often-humorous accounts of his adventures and misfortunes. Looked at through the lens of a sensitive interpretation, these writings (which do not include his letters to the Mother of the Order, now lost) give us a nuanced and very human picture of Teresa, a picture that is deeply moving.


$19.95
There are currently no product reviews.

Suggested Books:



America's Mary / Marge Steinhage Fenelon


Faustina / Kaityn C Mason


Women Mystics Second Edition / Louis Bouyer
This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 16 March, 2013.
Reviews
Customers who bought this product also purchased
Saint Maximilian Kolbe: Knight of the Immaculata / Jeremiah J. Smith
Saint Maximilian Kolbe: Knight of the Immaculata / Jeremiah J. Smith
A Book of Saints and Heroines / Joanna Bogle
A Book of Saints and Heroines / Joanna Bogle

Click below for the latest catalogues:



Subscribe
Email:
Categories
Tell A Friend
 
Tell someone you know about this product.
Information