Saint teresa

In the summer of 1976 I attended Habitat: The United Nations Conference on Human Settlements in Vancouver, Canada. While walking with a friend across the campus of the University of British Columbia where the conference was taking place we saw an older woman of diminutive stature with a lined, weathered [...]

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Saint of the Day – 15 October – St Teresa of Jesus/of Avila (1515-1582) Virgin, Mystic, Ecstatic, Reformer, Apostle of Prayer, Writer, Doctor of the Church. Born as Teresa Sanchez Ce…

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Saint Therese of Lisieux my Patroness amazes me, “I feel that I am about to enter my rest … but I also feel that my mission is ...

Kimberly Nunes’s poems have been published in The Alembic, Apricity Magazine, Blue Light Press Anthology, Brushfire, California Quarterly, Caveat Lector, El Portal, Evening Street Review, Mantis, Marin Poetry Center Anthology, The Madison Review, The Round, Spotlog Review, Sweet: A Literary Confection, WomenArts Quarterly Journal, and Adelaide Literary Magazine. Her poem “Morning at Moore’s Lake, Again” was nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize. She has attended numerous writing workshops…

Mysticism is an intimidating word. We instinctively associate it with saints who had incredible supernatural experiences—such as St. John of the Cross, Padre Pio; Teresa of Ávila; Faustina Kowalska. These saints certainly were mystics. But what makes a mystic a mystic? Is it an inaccessible reality, something beyond us everyday mortals? Let’s find out. The […]

Sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini