St. Teresa of Avila: Let Nothing Disturb you

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St. Teresa in Ecstasy

“My soul at once becomes recollected and I enter the state of quiet. Everything is stilled and the soul is left in a state of great quiet and deep satisfaction.” 
(St. Teresa of Avila)

St. Teresa of Avila has been one of the most significant guides of my spiritual life since I was 17 years old. I began reading her very early in my life as a Pallottine and there are two moments – a dream and a time in prayer - that have connected me to her.

In the dream I walked into an old unfamiliar church where I met my father who was already dead at the time. He pointed me to a side altar at the top left-hand side. When I went there I saw St. Teresa’s tomb in front of the altar. It was like the Italian ones with the shape of the body carved in marble; she was sleeping covered with a blanket. Then she stirred and woke up, telling me to stand between her and the altar. “Stay here” she said “and I will take care of you.”
The second happened during a charismatic retreat when I was resting in the Spirit, in a state of quiet. A rope ladder came down from heaven and standing beside it was St. Teresa who pointed to the ladder and said to me, “I have given you the means to ascend to the heights.”
With these I am both emotionally and spiritually connected to her, even though I don’t pray to her that much but this prayer of St. Teresa I say very often:

"Let nothing disturb you;
Let nothing frighten you,
All things pass away.
God alone never changes.
Patience obtains all that it strives for.
Whoever has God,
Lacks nothing.
God alone suffices."

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa - Artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini




  
                                                    



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  1. AnonymousOctober 15, 2022 at 7:51 AM

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    1. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM

      Dear Friends in Christ. What I write in my comment I write thru a veil of curiosity and I mean no offense. I want only enlightenment. I have just finished reading the ‘seventh things one sees straight after death. I wish I could remember the actual name. I closed it without thinking to save it and I can’t find the podcast anywhere now. I’m very confused as to
      St Saint Therese has that beautiful Poem ‘Let nothing disturb you.’ Well, after reading the podcast i have felt VERY disturbed indeed. I can’t help but feel I have no chance of ever getting to heaven as I was a serious sinner in my past but I have confessed my sins and repented and thank God He rescued me and enabled me to stop sinning and to live for Him alone. There are literally thousands of ‘near death experiences’ and I have read many of them. They say absolutely nothing that is spoken of in the podcast I have just read. They speak of the immensity with which God loves us and Sisters Faustian, in her diary, reports that at the moment of full death we are judged and see our own lives but God in His mercy allows the souls of people who are destined for hell to have one last chance to be saved. She also writes of our precious Mother Mary interceding for the poor souls headed for hell and these words of Faustian don’t marry up in the slightest with the essence of the podcast.

      It would help me greatly if someone else who has read the podcast I mention, would please put my soul at rest in this matter. My name is ‘Bernadette and i thank you with all my heart. May ‘God bless you all.

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