Episode 175: Teresa of Avila

Victoria Reynolds Farmer, Christina Bieber Lake, and Marie Hause talk about Teresa of Avila.

Knowing

• Why this episode and a bio of St. Teresa
• Our experience with her work

Reading

Interior Castle

• Metaphors for the soul
• Medieval worldview
• Some tricky bits of the text

Let nothing disturb you

• How the prayer frames our relationship to God
• Other prayers central to our religious practice

Autobiography

• Praying for physical illness
• Summing up the connection between the bodily and the spiritual

Passing On

• Christina: Thomas Traherne, Centuries
• Marie: https://sarahbessey.substack.com/p/breath-prayers-for-anxious-times
• Victoria: "The liturgy is of comfort to the disarrayed mind. We need not choose our thoughts, the words are aligned, like a rope for us to cling to." - Sister Monica Joan, Call the Midwife