The Relations
or
Manifestations
or
Spiritual Testimonies
or
Relations of the Spirit
Relation X.
Relation X.
Relation 10
Of a Revelation
to the Saint at Avila, 1579, and
Of Certain Directions
Concerning the Government
of the Order.
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Topics/ Discussion Questions
1). What did St. Teresa hear
Our Lord say regarding
what the Discalced Carmelite Fathers
should observe?
[Relation 10: #1]
2). What was the "greatest graces"
that Our Lord had given to
St.Teresa on Pentecost
some twenty years before?
[ Relation 10: #1 ]
[ The Life: Ch 38: #11 ]
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1). What did St. Teresa hear
Our Lord say regarding what
the Discalced Carmelite Fathers
should observe?
[Relation 10: #1]
St. Teresa stated:
"I heard our Lord say...
I was to say
to the Barefooted Fathers,
as from Him,
that they must strive
that they must strive
to observe four things;
The first is,
the superiors of the monasteries are
to be of one mind.
The second,
even if they have many monasteries,
to have but few friars in each.
The third,
to converse little
with people in the world,
and that only for the good
of their souls.
The fourth,
to teach more by works than by words.
- ".. so long as they observed them,
the Order would increase
more and more"
- " if they neglected them,
they should know
that they were falling away
from their first estate".
[Relation 10: #1]
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2). What was the "greatest graces"
that Our Lord had given to
St.Teresa on Pentecost
some twenty years before?
[ Relation 10: #1 ]
[ The Life: Ch 38: #11 ]
St. Teresa stated that this grace was:
"by the goodness of God,
so far as I could understand,
the Holy Ghost was with me"
-- "for I saw most distinctly...
how deficient I was (in the past)
from what I saw
I was now --
I recognised herein
the great mercy of our Lord to me,
and so began to
consider the place
which my sins had earned
for me in hell, and
praised God exceedingly,
because it seemed as if
I did not know my own soul again,
so great a change had come over it.
[ The Life: Ch 38: #11 ]
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End of Discussion of Relation 10 |
