Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel

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This book is the fruit of Thomas Dubay’s many years of study and experience in spiritual direction and in it he synthesizes the teachings on prayer of the two great doctors of the Church on prayer—St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila—and the teaching of Sacred Scripture. But the teaching that Dubay synthesized is not collected from Teresa and John for contemplatives alone. It is meant...

declared herself not only in the most complete accord with magisterial teaching but also ready to die over and over “for the least ceremony of the Church”. Thoroughly Catholic in mind and heart, Teresa loved the Church in her everyday life: sermons, holy water, blessings, liturgy. On her deathbed the saint did not forget to thank God that he had made her a “daughter of the Roman Catholic Church and allowed her to die within it”.85 She possessed in a striking manner the mark of authenticity proclaimed

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