Title:
Teresa of Ávila : the book of my life / translated by Mirabai Starr ; foreword by Tessa Bielecki.
ISBN:
9781590303658
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Boston, Mass. : New Seeds Books, 2007.
Physical Description:
346 pages
General Note:
Translation of Libro de la vida.
Contents:
Induction -- Prologue -- My turbulent youth -- A child's passion for God -- Falling dangerously in love -- Our Lady of Grace -- Taking the habit -- Illness and patience -- Saint Joseph's cure -- Prisoner of the parlor -- Twenty years of turbulence -- Tears of conversion -- First favors -- The four waters -- The garden -- Lifting the bucket -- Joyful abandon -- The waterwheel -- The prayer of quiet -- The stream of holy madness -- The fragrance of virtue -- The prayer of union -- Divine rain -- Prayer of pain -- Advice to world leaders -- Sacred humanity -- Visions and voices -- A new life -- Resisting the gifts -- Spiritual voices -- A living book -- The perils of temperance -- His hands -- The beautiful wound -- Fire and water -- Holy water -- A glimpse of the underworld -- Divine disobedience -- Secret preparations -- Holy poverty -- Founding Saint Joseph's -- Divine friendship -- Flight of the spirit -- Beyond doubt -- Soul on fire -- Epilogue.
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OCLC Number:
ocm71552173
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