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The Way of Perfection, Meditations on the Song of Songs, and The Interior Castle is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume contains two of Teresa’s most popular works: The Way of Perfection and The Interior Castle. Shortly after writing The Book of Her Life for her confessor, St. Teresa wrote The Way of Perfection at the request of her nuns who were eager to learn about prayer and contemplation. Throughout this work she teaches her nuns about prayer and also teaches us. Toward the end of her life, after...

Since our good Master saw that with this heavenly bread everything is easy for us, save through our own fault, and that we can carry out very well what we have said about the Father’s will being done in us, He now tells the Father to forgive us our debts since we ourselves forgive. Thus, He says, going on with the prayer He teaches us, “And forgive us, Lord, our debts as we forgive our debtors.”1 2. Let us observe, Sisters,
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