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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Teresa of Avila
DESCRIPTION:ST TERESA’S CHILDHOOD \nFrom the autobiography of St Teresa of Avila \n◊◊◊ \nTo have had virtuous and God-fearing parents along with the graces the \nLord granted me should have been enough for me to have led a good life\, if I had \nnot been so wretched. My father was fond of reading good books\, and thus he \nalso had books in Spanish for his children to read. These good books together \nwith the care my mother took to have us pray and be devoted to our Lady and to \nsome of the saints began to awaken in me…to the practice of virtue. And they \nthemselves possessed many. \nWe were in all three sisters and nine brothers. All resembling their \nparents in being virtuous\, through the goodness of God\, with the exception of \nmyself – although I was the most loved of my father. And it seemed that he was \nright – before I began to offend God. For I am ashamed when I recall the good \ninclinations the Lord gave me and how poorly I knew how to profit by them. \nMy brothers and sisters did not in any hold me back from the service of \nGod. I had one brother about my age. We used to get together to read the lives \nof the saints… When I considered the martyrdoms the saints suffered for God\, it \nseemed to me that the price they paid for going to enjoy God was very cheap\, and \nI greatly desired to die in the same way. I did not want this on account of the \nlove I felt for God but to get to enjoy very quickly the wonderful things I read \nthere were in heaven. And my brother and I discussed together the means we \nshould take to achieve this. We agreed to go off to the land of the Moors and beg \nthem\, out of love for God\, to cut off our heads there. \nHaving parents seemed to us the greatest obstacle. We were terrified in \nwhat we read about the suffering and the glory that was to last forever. We spent \na lot of time talking about this and took delight in often repeating: forever and \never and ever. As I said this over and over\, the Lord was pleased to impress \nupon me in childhood the way of truth. \nWhen I saw it was impossible to go where I would be killed for God\, we \nmade plans to be hermits. And in the garden that we had in our house\, we tried \nas we could to make hermitages piling up little stones which afterwards would \nquickly fall down again. And so in nothing could we find a remedy for our \ndesire. It gives me devotion now to see how God gave me so early what I lost \nthrough my own fault. \nI gave what alms I could\, but that was little. I sought out solitude to pray \nmy devotions\, and they were many\, especially the rosary\, to which my mother \nwas very devoted; and she made us devoted to it too. When I played with other \ngirls I enjoyed it when we pretended we were nuns in a monastery\, and it \nseemed to me that I desired to be one\, although not as much as I desired the \nother things I mentioned.
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