The coordinates in which the Teresian style moves, like those of many mystics, are not others but the very currents of life that provoke it (wide and deep currents) and the currents of the other life (readers) in which they are poured through the word. Teresa de Jesus is an exceptional communicator. His contemporaries succumbed…
The Vultum Dei Quaerere Apostolic Constitution and Instruction Cor Orans make an affirmation of principle regarding the relationship between the male and female branches of the same Order: «The legal association of the monasteries of nuns with the corresponding masculine Order should be encouraged whenever possible, in order to protect the identity of the charismatic…
“Rejoice and Be Glad,” Pope Francis’s new apostolic exhortation on “the call to holiness in the modern world,” will be released on April 9, the Vatican has announced. The document, called “Gaudete et Exsultate” in Latin, will be presented at a Vatican news conference by Archbishop Angelo De Donatis, the papal vicar for the Diocese…
When the days in a normal winter, become gradually shorts and the first snowflakes begin to fall, the first thoughts of Christmas arise timidly and quietly. From the single word, a special charm already emerges, to which hardly a heart can resist. Those who do not share our faith and even non-believers, for whom the…
The correspondent of the Vanguard in Beirut, Tomás Alcoberro, reminds us that a friend of his (Antoine Khater), in a corner of the kitchen of his house on the days when the city was being bombed, was totally committed to the translation of the teresian work. Teresa of Avila is difficult to translate. Their language…
Elijah’s house is Carmel, an ancient tradition emphasizes that the prophet, called in Arabic, Khader (meaning the green, the living, the one who never dies and is everywhere) still dwells on Mount Carmel, doing so A sacred and venerable place. An ancient legend says that the Family of Nazareth on their return from the exile…
