Books : Holy Daring: An Outrageous Gift to Modern Spirituality from Saint Teresa, the Grand Wild Woman of Avila
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by: Tessa Bielecki
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781852304836
ISBN: 1852304839
Label: Element Books
Manufacturer: Element Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 1994-05
Publisher: Element Books
Sales Rank: 1216596
Studio: Element Books
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Rating: - Paradox of Spirituality - Agony /Ecstasy
I am enriched and encouraged to live the Call of the King/His Majesty with passion and feeling as a woman. The author's connection to the foundress Saint Teresa the grand wild woman of Avila is light unto my path. I am left with the paradoxical prayer that is part of my life now and the ten universal ascetical practices that I dare to adopt one day at a time in my way of life. Thanks be to God and ALL be to His greater honor and glory.
Rating: - Spousal Prayer, Divine Intimacy
Tessa Bielecki is an unusual Carmelite nun, who styles herself a monk. She writes in uncomplicated, but not simplistic, language about her namesake Teresa of Avila and Teresa's experience of God as her spouse. The author opens this experience for the contemporary reader in such a way that one can regard it as a viable spiritual lifestyle for the lay Christian, single or married, male or female.
In a text of little more than 100 pages, the book cannot be called profound and the author ... Read More
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