Teresa of Avila: An Extraordinary Life   Shirley du Boulay    
This refreshing biography captures the compelling combination of down-to-earth humanity and profound, enriching spirituality that is Teresa of Avila’s hallmark. This intelligent, balanced portrait of an irreverent, intense, and fiery Renaissance woman and her times includes moving excerpts from her letters and sublime spiritual writings. Her unconventional, progressive views on prayer and worship, her outstanding administrative and literary talents, her travels around Spain to found and supervise convents, and how she spent much of her life under the scrutiny of the Inquisition are all detailed. For readers of any faith or none, this book brings to life an extraordinarily ordinary, lovable, and inspiring individual. [more details...]
Code: B0915        £10.95  
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Saint Teresa of Avila: The Book of Her Foundations: A Study Guide   Marc Foley, O.C.D    
The Book of Her Foundations is the least read, the least quoted, the least known of St. Teresa's works. Why this is so is probably because people do not think it is a spiritual book. But as you read on, you find that St. Teresa grew in holiness, not in spite of obstacles such as being entangled in lawsuits, mired down in disputes over dowries, tied up in interminable bureaucratic red-tape, and having to deal with unscrupulous businessmen, but because of these difficulties. None of these challenges impeded her spiritual growth. This study guide will help us to see how Teresa grew in holiness in the marketplace as much as in the cloister, perhaps even more so. None of us has been called to found convents, but like Teresa all of us are called to practice virtue and grow in holiness within the fray of daily life. [more details...]
Code: B1856        £19.50  
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St Teresa of Avila   F. A. Forbes    
A short biography of the Saint who reformed Carmelites and gave a host of Saints to the Church. She helped bring back the original strict observance of the Carmelite rule, founded numerous new convents, became a celebrated mystic, and was canonized only 40 years after her death. In 1970 she was declared a Doctor of the Church. Here is a popular biography for young and old of this spirited and colourful Saint. [more details...]
Code: B0877        £6.95  
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Loving Much: St Teresas Teaching on Prayer   Mary Garnet OCD    
St. Teresa defines prayer as loving much. The aim of this book is to show that prayer brings about an integration and sense of direction and purpose in life that promotes our fullness and maturity as human persons. [more details...]
Code: B0268        £2.50  
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I Consider The Labor Well Spent a mini-course on the Interior Castle   Joel Giallanza, C.S.C.    
Each chapter examines one of the mansions described by St.Teresa of Avila with a conclusion to the study in the final chapter, thereby providing the reader with a basic background necessary for reading the Interior Castle. [more details...]
Code: B0605        £4.50  
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Teresa of Avila: The Way of Prayer   ed. Kieren Kavanagh, OCD    
After an extensive and informative introduction covering Teresa's childhood, her life as a nun, and her work as a foundress, Kavanagh presents a valuable selection of writings from the Spanish mystic's works, illustrating her interior experience and remarkable teaching on prayer. "These selections permit us to 'taste and see' God's revelation to a woman totally surrendered to God - living theology, in other words." - Kevin Culligan, OCD. [more details...]
Code: B0986        £9.95  
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The Prayers of Teresa of Avila   Ed. Thomas Alvarez, OCD    
"The Prayers are deeply personal and introduce the reader to the school of prayer which St Teresa taught her followers." New Heaven/New Earth. [more details...]
Code: B0384        £7.50  
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The Collected Letters of St Teresa of Avila, Volume 1   trans. Kieran Kavanaugh OCD    
St. Teresa of Avila wrote candidly the story of both her life and her work as foundress in two books: the Life and the Foundations. Despite her openness in them, she wrote with the knowledge they would be read by her censors. Her letters, then, exhibit even more striking candour, offering many details that were not meant for the public. In these letters we walk with Teresa year by year, day by day -- even hour by hour sometimes. Her worries, her troubles and triumphs, her expressions of sadness and joy pervade these pages. Without question we have before us a rich collection, showing a heart magnanimously open to others, communicating with them on many levels, pouring itself out to family members and religious, to friends, theologians, advisors, and to the nobility and business people. Contains Letters from 1546 to 1577. Includes Introductions, Endnotes, Biographical Sketches and Index. [more details...]
Code: B0287        £13.50  
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The Collected Letters of St Teresa of Avila, Volume 2   trans. Kieran Kavanaugh OCD    
This second and final volume of St. Teresa's correspondence begins with the year 1578, a most troubling time for Teresa. A keen observer of the reality around her as well as within, Teresa in these letters focuses light on many of the struggles in both the Carmelite order and the church of sixteenth-century Spain. She introduces us to major personalities who have left their mark on history. Contains Letters from 1578 to 1582. Includes Biographical Sketches, Sources for the Biographical Sketches and Index. [more details...]
Code: B0288        £13.50  
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The Collected Works of St Teresa of Avila, Volume 1   trans. Kieran Kavanaugh OCD, Otilio Rodriguez OCD    
Contains Book of Her Life, Spiritual Testimonies, and Soliloquies. Includes general and biblical index. [more details...]
Code: B0282        £12.50  
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The Collected Works of St Teresa of Avila, Volume 2   trans. Kieran Kavanaugh OCD, Otilio Rodriguez OCD    
Contains Way of Perfection, Interior Castle, and Meditations on the Song of Songs. Includes general and biblical index. [more details...]
Code: B0283        £14.50  
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The Collected Works of St Teresa of Avila, Volume 3   trans. Kieran Kavanaugh OCD, Otilio Rodriguez OCD    
Contains Book of Her Foundations and Minor Works. Includes general and biblical index. [more details...]
Code: B0284        £11.95  
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In The Footsteps of St Teresa   Fr John Keegan    
Thoughts on St Teresa's Life and Way of Perfection. [more details...]
Code: B0387        £11.95  
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Towards Mystical Union   Julienne McLean    
A modern commentary on the mystical text 'The Interior Castle' by St Teresa of Avila. It seeks to encourage and assist modern pilgrims towards a more heart-centred contemplative and intimate relationship with God through presenting and exploring the saint's own spiritual writings and guidance. As well as being a manual for spiritual direction, Towards Mystical Union is also intended to be a contribution to the interface between modern depth psychology, contemplative prayer and the Christian mystical tradition. [more details...]
Code: B1067        £11.95  
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Lectio Divina and the Practice of Teresian Prayer   Sam Anthony Morello, OCD    
The author shows us how the tradition of Lectio can assist us in following the way of prayer of St. Teresa of Avila. [more details...]
Code: B0502        £3.50  
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Where Lovers Meet: Inside the Interior Castle   Susan Muto    
Susan Muto enables the reader to appreciate the universe of Saint Teresa housed in the dwelling places of her classic work, The Interior Castle. Dr. Muto also deftly introduces us to what is at stake if one is to find success in the search for approaching God with sure step. The author uses her long-standing appreciation of psychology and spiritual theology to impart wise counsels about the "why" and the "how" of progress along the path traced by the mystical Madre of Carmel. [more details...]
Code: B1464        £12.50  
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The Interior Castle - Study Edition   St Teresa of Avila    
Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D. and Otilio Rodriguez, O.C.D. Prepared by Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D. and Carol Lisi, O.C.D.S. The Interior Castle is more than a book. It is a powerful image of the mystery of the human person. It is the soul of St. Teresa of Avila, who journeys through the castle from one dwelling place to another mapping out a feminine, yet warlike, program for the Christian spiritual life. It is also the last book Teresa wrote: in 1577, five years before she died, she recorded, to the best of her knowledge, the experiences for which she praised God. Reading Teresa herself is indispensable. The authors of this study edition designed it as a springboard to reading and understanding Teresa’s text. They present a chapter of Teresa’s book, followed by a review of the progress of her thought and the principal ideas in each chapter. Next they give interpretive notes: doctrinal, historical, and sociological. Then because Teresa wanted her writings to be in harmony with sacred Scripture, they point out scriptural texts that support her ideas. Finally, the authors show how teachings of the present-day church demonstrate both how Teresa's basic notions were correct and how we can apply her principles to our times. [more details...]
Code: B1651        £19.50  
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Interior Castle - PB   Saint Teresa of Jesus    
St. Teresa of Jesus, also known as St. Teresa of Avila, is one of the most popular Doctors of the Church. Her teaching on prayer has continued to inspire and guide Christians in their spiritual journeys for over four hundred years. In The Interior Castle St. Teresa describes the road by which she was led, well aware that the others may be led in a different way. In the heavenly Father’s house, there are many mansions; not only seven, and many paths lead to them. What gives the work such high value is, that it is the result of a most searching inquiry into the various phases whereby a soul is gradually transformed into the likeness of God Himself. Here St. Teresa is at her best. She takes nothing for granted, her own personal experiences are admitted only after having been fully investigated and found to be consistent one with the other, and conformable to the teaching of the Church and the words of Holy Scripture. [more details...]
Code: B1219        £7.95  
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The Apostolate of Contemplatives: According to St Teresa of Avila   Fr Emmanuel Renault    
The origin and evolution of St Teresa's apostolic zeal, the apostolic intentions of Teresian reform, and the apostolic means: prayer, works and perfection. [more details...]
Code: B0866        £5.55  
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The Teresian Gospel   Otilo Rodriguez, OCD    
An introduction to a fruitful reading of the Way of Perfection. [more details...]
Code: B0865        £6.75  
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The Way of Perfection - Paperback   Saint Teresa of Jesus    NEW
St. Teresa of Jesus, also known as St. Teresa of Avila, was a Spanish Carmelite nun in the 16th Century, who became a prominent mystic, writer and monastic reformer. The Way of Perfection is a great classic useful for anyone wishing to develop his or her prayer life. St Teresa divided the book into three sections. The first describing the requirements for prayer: detachment, humility and love. In the second section she develops these themes, and the last provides an insightful exploration of the Lord's Prayer. This book will help you to grow in prayer and in faith, as the timeless wisdom of this well-loved Doctor of the Church leads you closer to the loving heart of God our father. The Way of Perfection by Saint Teresa of Jesus, translated by A Discalced Carmelite. This edition has been re-typeset using the text of the 1942 edition originally published by Sands & Co. under the Imprimatur of G. Daly, V.G., Glasgow, 1st July 1942. [more details...]
Code: B2081        £6.95  
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The Way of Perfection - Hardback   Saint Teresa of Jesus    
This great classic by St Teresa of Avila, one of the Church’s most famous mystics and spiritual guides, is essential reading for anyone wishing to make real progress in the spiritual life. By turns pithy and poetical, humorous and stern, full of Spanish fire and the practical common sense that made St. Teresa one of the Church’s most effective leaders and reformers, it is a book that no Catholic who takes their faith seriously should be without. Size - 5 1/2" x 8". Hardbound (split bound in dark brown-light brown leather). [more details...]
Code: B1137        £12.95  
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The Way of Perfection - study edition   St. Teresa of Avila    
A Study Edition Prepared by Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D. St. Teresa of Avila is an unsurpassed teacher of Christian prayer and spirituality, and in The Way of Perfection she is at her best. Now, with the help of this study edition, everyone can enjoy the benefits of her wisdom. [more details...]
Code: B0286        £13.50  
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Carmelite Studies IX: The Heirs of St Teresa of Avila   ed. Christopher C Wilson, PhD    
... Defenders and Disseminators of the Founding Mother's Legacy. This issue of Carmelite Studies presents new insights into the lives and writings of individuals who knew Teresa of Ávila in life and who, after her death in 1582, worked to propagate and defend her legacy, including the illustrious nuns Ana de San Bartolomé, Ana de Jesús, María de San José, and Ana de San Agustín, and her close male confidant and collaborator, Jerónimo Gracián de la Madre de Dios. A further focus of the essays is the reception of the Teresian heritage by individuals outside the order, as mediated by these early Discalced Carmelites and by Teresa's published writings. [more details...]
Code: B1280        £11.95  
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Reflections: St Teresa of Avila on Prayer       
Fifteen reflections on prayer from the writings St Teresa of Avila. Illustrated with B&W photographs related to St Teresa, including Avila, Spain. [more details...]
Code: B0878        £2.50  
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