Teresa of Ávila : the book of my life

Teresa of Avila, Saint 1515-1582 (Author). Starr, Mirabai (Added Author).

Item details

ISBN: 9781590303658 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1590303652 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xxxii, 346 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Boston : New Seeds Books, 2007.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

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.