To suffer and be happy…

Page: Quotes, Suffering, Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)

To suffer and to be happy although suffering, to have one’s feet on the earth, to walk on the dirty and rough paths of this earth and yet to be enthroned with Christ at the Father’s right hand, to laugh and cry with the children of this world and ceaselessly to sing the praises of God with the choirs of angels this is the life of the Christian until the morning of eternity breaks forth.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)

Hours for listening…

Page: Quotes, Spiritual (life), Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)

We need hours for listening silently and allowing the Word of God to act on us until it moves us to bear fruit in an offering of praise and an offering of action. We need to have traditional forms and to participate in public and prescribed worship services so that our interior life will remain vital and on the right track, and so that it will find appropriate expression.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)

Through passion and Cross…

Contemplation, Creation, Page: Quotes, Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)

In the Passion and death of Christ our sins were consumed by fire. If we accept that in faith, and if we accept the whole Christ in faith-filled surrender, which means, however, that we choose and walk the path of the imitation of Christ, then he will lead us “through his Passion and cross to the glory of his Resurrection.” This is exactly what is experienced in contemplation: passing through the expiatory flames to the bliss of the union of love. This explains its twofold character. It is death and resurrection.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)