{"title":"Default Category\/Religious Jewelry\/Patron Saint Medals\/Saint Teresa of avila Medals","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"saint-teresa-of-avila-rosary-bracelet-exclusive-p90904","title":"Saint Teresa of Avila Rosary Bracelet \"EXCLUSIVE\"","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tickBgSm2\"\u003eSaint Medallion and Rosary components are made of \u003cb\u003e.925 Sterling Silver\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \n\u003cdiv class=\"tickBgSm2\"\u003eSaint Medallion measure approximately \u003cb\u003e2\/3 Inch Wide x 2\/3 Inch Tall\u003c\/b\u003e (size of a dime)\u003c\/div\u003e \n\u003cdiv class=\"tickBgSm2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMakes a Perfect Communion and Confirmation Gift\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \n\u003cdiv class=\"tickBgSm2\"\u003eSaint medallion can be engraved on the back side with a personalized message\u003c\/div\u003e \n\u003cdiv class=\"tickBgSm2\"\u003eBracelet Comes with A Lobster Clasp Attachment to accommodate size \u003c\/div\u003e  \n\u003cdiv class=\"tickBgSm2\"\u003eIf you need a larger or smaller size let us know in the \u003cb\u003eSpecial Instructions\u003c\/b\u003e\nWe'll take care of it at no extra charge\u003c\/div\u003e \n\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSaint Teresa of Avila was a prominent Spanish mystic, Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation. She was a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered to be, along with John of the Cross, a founder of the Discalced Carmelites. In 1970 she was named a Doctor of the Church by Pope Paul VI.\n\nThe kernel of Teresa's mystical thought throughout all her writings is the ascent of the soul in four stages (The Autobiography Chs. 10-22):\n\nThe first, or \"mental prayer\", is that of devout contemplation or concentration, the withdrawal of the soul from without and specially the devout observance of the passion of Christ and penitence (Autobiography 11.20).\n\nThe second is the \"prayer of quiet\", in which at least the human will is lost in that of God by virtue of a charismatic, supernatural state given of God, while the other faculties, such as memory, reason, and imagination, are not yet secure from worldly distraction. While a partial distraction is due to outer performances such as repetition of prayers and writing down spiritual things, yet the prevailing state is one of quietude (Autobiography 14.1).\n\nThe \"devotion of union\" is not only a supernatural but an essentially ecstatic state. Here there is also an absorption of the reason in God, and only the memory and imagination are left to ramble. This state is characterized by a blissful peace, a sweet slumber of at least the higher soul faculties, a conscious rapture in the love of God.\n\nThe fourth is the \"devotion of ecstasy or rapture,\" a passive state, in which the consciousness of being in the body disappears (2 Corinthians 12:2-3). Sense activity ceases; memory and imagination are also absorbed in God or intoxicated. Body and spirit are in the throes of a sweet, happy pain, alternating between a fearful fiery glow, a complete impotence and unconsciousness, and a spell of strangulation, intermitted sometimes by such an ecstatic flight that the body is literally lifted into space. This after half an hour is followed by a reactionary relaxation of a few hours in a swoon-like weakness, attended by a negation of all the faculties in the union with God. From this the subject awakens in tears; it is the climax of mystical experience, productive of the trance. (Indeed, she was said to have been observed levitating during Mass on more than one occasion.)\n\nTeresa is one of the foremost writers on mental prayer, and her position among writers on mystical theology is unique. In all her writings on this subject she deals with her personal experiences, which a deep insight and analytical gifts enabled her to explain clearly. 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