Life of St Teresa of Jesus, Teresa of Avila [top ten books to read TXT] 📗

>Experience, more valuable than books, xiv. 10; a safeguard

against delusion, xiv. 11.

Faith, the, Satan was never able to make the Saint doubt,

xix. 13; blessed effects of, xxv. 16.

Falls turn to our good, xix. 8.

Fear, xxv. 27; of God, xxvi. 1.

Founders of religious Orders, xxxii. 17.

Francis, St., xxii. 10.

Francis, St., de Borja visits the Saint, xxiv. 4; consulted by

her, Rel. vii. 5.

Friendship, advantages of spiritual, vii. 33-37, xxx. 6; with

God, xv. 8; the Saint’s detachment from, xxiv. 8.

Friendship, worldly, dangers of, ii. 4, v. 9; deceitfulness of,

xxi. 1.

Garden, the prayer in the, ix. 5; the soul likened to a, xi. 10,

xiv. 13.

Gifts of God, the, importance of discerning, x. 4; demand our

gratitude, x. 7; supply strength, x. 8; a grace to understand,

xvii. 7; the Saint erroneously advised to conceal, xxvi. 5; given

according to His will, xxxiv. 14, xxxix. 12; the Saint’s joy when

others received, xxxiv. 21.

God, sense of the presence of, x. 1; helps those who love Him,

xi. 19; never fails those who trust Him, xiii. 15; munificence

of, xviii. 5; the Saint has a vision of, xl. 13, 14; pain of

absence from, Rel. iv. 6.

Grace, prayer the door of, viii. 13; comes after trials, xi. 18;

the Saint’s distress because she could not know whether she was

in a state of, xxxiv. 12; vision of a soul in, Rel. iii. 13.

Guzman, de, y Barrientos, Don Martin, sudden death of, xxxiv. 24.

Hardships of the religious life, xiii. 30.

Health, anxiety about, v. 3-8; importance of, in the spiritual

life, xi. 23; to be made little of, xiii. 9.

Heaven, Queen of, xix. 9; revealed in raptures, xxxiii. 16,

xxxviii. 8.

Hell, a vision of, xxx. 14, xxxii. 1; effects of, on the Saint,

xxxii. 7-10.

Heretics, self-condemned, vii. 8; evil state of, xxxii. 9;

resemble a broken mirror, xl. 9.

Hilarion, St., the Saint commends herself to, xxvii. 2.

Honour, point of, xxi. 12.

Hugo, Fra, Cardinal of Santa Sabina, xxxvi. 27.

Humanity, the Sacred, xii. 3, xxii. 1; mistake of the Saint

concerning, xxii. 3; source of all grace, xxii. 9; never to be

lost sight of in prayer, xxii. 11; the Saint directed to fix her

thoughts on, xxiii. 18; the Saint renews her love of, xxiv. 2;

vision of, xxviii. 4, xxxviii. 22.

Humility, advantages of, vii. 37, xii. 9; false kinds of, x. 4,

xiii. 4; the foundation of the Christian life, xii. 5; worth more

than all the science in the world, xv. 13; grows most in the

state of perfect union, xix. 2; dangers of false, xix. 15-23;

acquired in raptures, xx. 38; foundation of prayer must be laid

in, xxii. 16; a false, the most crafty device of Satan, xxx. 12;

asking for consolations not consistent with, xxxix. 21-23.

Hypocrisy, the Saint not tempted to, vii. 2, Rel. i. 18.

Ibañez, Fra Pedro, x. 10, note, xvi. 10; note 6; consulted by the

Saint about the new foundation, xxxii. 19; encourages the Saint

to persevere, xxxii. 20; confident of success, xxxiii. 5; departs

from Avila, xxxiii. 7; advises the Saint to accept an endowment

for the new foundation, xxxv. 5; changes his opinion, xxxv. 7;

and helps the Saint, xxxvi. 23; seen by the Saint in a vision,

xxxviii. 15, 16.

Illness of St. Teresa, iv. 6, v. 4; extreme severity of, v. 14.

Image of our Lord not to be mocked, xxix. 7.

Images, devotion of the Saint to, vii. 3; effects of, on her,

ix. 1-3; great blessing of, ix. 7.

Imagination of St. Teresa not active, ix. 6; wearisome to her,

xvii. 9.

Imitation of the Saints, xiii. 5-9.

Imperfections, rooting up of, xiv. 14.

Impetuosities in prayer, xxix. 11-13, Rel. i. 3, Rel. viii. 13.

Impetuosities of divine love, xxix. 10, 11, 13, xxxiii. 9;

physical effects of, xxix. 15.

Incarnation, the monastery of the, the Saint enters, iv. 1; the

nuns of, complain of the Saint, xix. 12; the Saint tempted to

leave, xxxi. 16; the rule not strictly observed in, xxxii. 12;

the Saint’s affection for, xxxii. 13, xxxiii. 3; nuns of, object

to the new foundation, xxxiii. 2; election of prioress, xxxv. 8;

the Saint returns to, from Toledo, xxxv. 10, xxxvi. 1; troubled

because of the new foundation, xxxvi. 11.

Indisposition, bodily, evil effects of, on the spiritual life,

xi. 23.

Ingratitude, delusion arising from the dread of, xxiv. 6; the

Saint bewails her, xiv. 16.

Inquisition, the, threats of denouncing the Saint to, xxxiii. 6.

Inspirations, good, not to be resisted, iv. 3.

Intentions, good, no excuse for an evil act, v. 12.

Jerome, Fra, of the Mother of God, Rel. vi. 1-3, Rel. ix. 7, 21,

23, 26.

Jerome, St., xi. 17, xxxviii. 2; the Saint reads the letters of,

iii. 8.

Jesus, the Society of, helps the Saint, v. 8; sought by her,

xxiii. 3, 19; visions concerning, xxxviii. 17, 39.

Job, patience of, v. 16; trial of, xxx. 12.

John, St., of the Cross, Rel. iii. 19.

Joseph, St., great devotion of the Saint to, vi. 9, xxx. 8,

xxxvi. 5; the teacher of prayer, vi. 12; encourages the Saint,

xxxiii. 14; vision of, xxxiii. 16.

Joseph, St., the monastery of, purchase of the site of,

xxxii. 22; not to be subject to the Order, xxxiii. 18; paradise

of God’s delight, xxxv. 13; foundation of, xxxvi. 4; destruction

of, threatened by the council of the city, xxxvi. 14; obtains the

good will of the people, xxxvi. 25; goodness of the nuns of,

xxxix. 14.

Joys, of prayer, x. 3; of visions, xxvii. 13; of the saved,

xxvii. 15.

Judas, temptation of, xix. 16.

Judgment, day of, xl. 16.

Kindred, detachment from, xxxi. 22, Rel. ix. 11.

Kings, obligations of, xxi. 2, 4; wherein lies the power of,

xxxvii. 8.

Labourer, story of a, xxxviii. 26.

Laxity in religious houses, vii. 6-10.

Learning, accompanied with humility, a help to prayer, xii. 6;

useful in directors, xiii. 24-26; the Saint wishes for, xiv. 9;

not necessary in prayer, xv. 12.

Lie, a, Satan is, xxv. 26; the Saint’s hatred of, xxviii. 6.

Life, the, of the Saint, under what circumstances written, x. 11.

Life, weariness of, xxi. 8; the illuminative, xxii. 1.

Light of visions, xxviii. 7, xxxviii. 3.

Locutions, divine, xix. 14, xxv. 1, 2; delusions incidental to,

xxv. 3, 11; efficacy of, xxv. 5, 12; human, xxv. 8; Satanic,

xxv. 13; tests of the Satanic, xxv. 17; nature of, xxvi. 3; state

of the understanding during, xxvii. 10; effects of the divine,

xxxviii. 19-21.

Locutions heard by the Saint, xviii. 18, xix. 13, xxiv. 7,

xxv. 22, xxvi. 3, 6, xxix. 7, xxx. 17, xxxi. 15, xxxii. 17,

xxxiii. 10, 14, xxxv. 7, 9, xxxvi. 20, xxxviii. 4, 19, 20,

xxxix. 29, 34, xl. 1, 21, 24, Rel. iii. 1, passim, Rel. iv. 4, 5,

6, Rel. ix. 1, passim.

Lord, our, accounted mad, xxvii. 15.

Love, joyous, in seeing a picture of Christ, ix. 7; servants of,

xi. 1; wherein it consists, xi. 20; vehement in perfect souls,

xv. 6; effects of divine, xxii. 21; makes itself known without

words, xxvii. 12; impetuosities of, xxix. 10, 11; fire of,

xxx. 25.

Loyalty, worldly, v. 9.

Ludolf of Saxony, xxxviii. 11.

Lukewarmness, vii. 1.

Lutherans, xxxii. 9, Rel. ii. 14; destroyers of images,

Rel. v. 5.

Madness, spiritual, xvi. 1-8, xxvii. 15.

Magdalene, the, ix. 2, xxi. 9; her example to be followed,

xxii. 19.

Mancio, F., Rel. ii. 18.

Mantles of the religious folded by the Saint, xxxi. 27.

Maria of Jesus, xxxv. 1; founds a house in Alcala de Henares,

xxxvi. 29.

Martin, Don, Guzman y Barrientos, marries a sister of the Saint,

ii. 4, note, iii. 4; sudden death of, xxxiv. 24.

Martyrdom desired by the Saint, i. 4.

Martyrs, the, sufferings of, xvi. 6.

Mary and Martha, xvii. 6, xxii. 13.

Meditation, advantage of, iv. 11; fruits of, xi. 20; example of

a, xiii. 19; the perfect may have to return to, xv. 20.

Memory, the, in the prayer of imperfect union, xvii. 5, 9;

troublesome, but not hurtful, xvii. 11.

Mendoza, de, Don Alvaro, Bishop of Avila, xxxiii. 19; protects

the new monastery of St. Joseph, xxxvi. 18.

Men, great, difficult of access, xxxvii. 7.

Mercies of God, the remembrance of, xv. 23.

Michael, St., the Saint commends herself to, xxvii. 2.

Misdirection, a, corrected by the Saint, xiii. 22.

Mitigation, the Bull of, xxxii. 12; disused in the new monastery,

xxxvi. 27, 28.

Monasteries, courts in politeness, xxxvii. 17.

Munificence of God, xviii. 5, xxii. 26.

Neatness, excessive, ii. 2, Rel. i. 23.

Novices in St. Joseph’s, xxxix. 15.

Novitiate of the Saint, v. 1.

Nun, illness of a, in the monastery of the Incarnation, v. 3;

visions concerning a, xxxviii. 37, 38.

Obedience, the Saint writes under, xviii. 10; strict observance

of, in the Society of Jesus, xxxiii. 9; of the Saint to her

confessors, xxiii. 19, Rel. i. 9, 29, Rel. vii. 14.

Objects, natural, moved the Saint to devotion, ix. 6.

Ocampo, de, Mary, xxxii. 13, note.

Office, the divine, the Saint’s imperfect knowledge of, xxxi. 26.

Order, vision concerning a certain, xl. 18, 19.

Osorno, Countess of, Rel. iii. 16.

Ovalle, de, Don Juan, xxxv. 14, note; providential illness of,

xxxvi. 2.

Padranos, de, Juan, xxiii. 18; directs the Saint, xxiv. 1;

removed from Avila, xxiv. 5.

Pain of raptures, xx. 11; sweetness of, xx. 19.

Paradise of His delight, xxxv. 13.

“Passer solitarius,” xx. 13.

Passion, the, devotion of the Saint to, ix. 5; meditation on,

xiii. 19, 20, xxii. 8.

Patience of a nun, v. 3; of the Saint, v. 16; of God, viii. 8.

Penance, necessity of, xxvii. 14; of the Saint, xxiv. 2,

Rel. i. 5, Rel. ii. 11, Rel. xi. 2.

Perfection, xxi. 10; true safety lies in, xxxv. 15; not always

attained to because of many years spent in prayer, xxxix. 21.

Persecution, of the Saint, xix. 12, xxxvi. 12; blessings of,

xxxiii. 5.

Perseverance in prayer, viii. 5; fruits of, xi. 6; reward of,

certain, xi. 17; the Saint prays for, xiv. 17; and recommends,

xix. 7.

Peter, St., of Alcantara, xxvii. 4; penitential life of,

xxvii. 17-21, xxx. 2; power of, with God, xxvii. 22; understands

and comforts the Saint, xxx. 5, 7, Rel. vii. 6; quiets a scruple

of the Saint, xxx. 20; approves of the new foundation, xxxii. 16;

and of the observance of poverty in it, xxxv. 6; in Avila when

the Saint came back from Toledo, xxxvi. 1; death of, xxxvi. 1,

note; appears to the Saint, xxxvi. 20, 21; said that women make

greater progress than men, xl. 12.

Phoenix, the, xxxix. 33.

Pilgrims, xxxviii. 8.

Pillar, the, meditations on Christ at, xiii. 19, 31.

Politeness, monasteries courts in, xxxvii. 17.

Poverty, effects of defective, xi. 3; of spirit, xxii. 17; the

Saint’s love of, xxxv. 3, Rel. i. 10, Rel. ii. 2.

Prayer, mental, viii. 7; blessings of, viii. 12; joys of, x. 3;

the Saint’s four states of, xi. 12; fruit of mental, xi. 20;

vocal, xii. 3; doctrine of, difficult, xiii. 18; importance of

persevering in, xv. 5; must have its foundations in humility,

xxii. 16; of the Saint continued in sleep, xxix. 9; effects of

intercessory, xxxi. 9; two kinds of, xxxix. 8-10; the Saint’s

method of, Rel. i. 1.

Preachers, xvi. 12.

Presence of God, the, xviii. 20; practice of the, xii. 3; effects

of, in the prayer of quiet, xiv. 8; different from vision,

xxvii. 6.

Priest, conversion of an evil-living, v. 9, xxxi. 7; vision

concerning a, xxxviii. 29.

Progress made in the way of raptures, xxi. 11.

Prophecies made to the Saint, xxxiv. 23; fulfilled,

Rel. ii. 6, 17.

Provincial, the, of the Carmelites offers to accept the new

foundation, xxxii. 16; then declines it, xxxii. 18; sends the

Saint to Toledo, xxxiv. 2; recalls