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Drawing the title from a phrase she found in the Imitation of Christ, St. Teresa of Ávila’s The Way of Perfection consists of meditations on important matters of spiritual life, written as advice and explanation for the women of her reformed convent of the Carmelite Order. Although its aim was to teach the nuns at her convent how to spiritually progress through prayer and Christian meditation, it...

our Lady and Empress should be kept with all the perfection of its commencement.5 Do not suppose it is useless to continue these petitions: some people consider it a hardship not to pray more for their own souls, yet what better prayer could there be? Perhaps you are troubled at thinking that it will not free you from the pains of Purgatory; but this prayer will cancel some of your debt, and if more is owing, never mind that. What does it matter if I stay in Purgatory until the Day of Judgment if
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