More wisdom from St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

 
 
 

During the whole of his life, Christ was unceasingly in possession of the Beatific Vision, up to the time of his agony in the Garden of Olives. Then, by an act of his free will, this delight was withdrawn from him. What human suffering, even if provoked by the most burning desire, could be compared with the torment that the Man-God must have experienced?

—St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)

quoted in the book, Women Mystics

 

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Exceptional Women

Focusing on the lives and writings of five women mystics, the great theologian and spiritual writer Louis Bouyer shows that, far from relegating women to some inferior position, Christianity has often been shaped and steered by women. Bouyer studies five female figures whose influence catalyzed an interior renaissance within Catholicism—the kind the Church needs as much today as it did in times past.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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