IRAtArl)r PERTH, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1935.
NO. 2,882.
Little
Essays
SIXTY-FIRST YEAR.
on
Spain
mains to be visited in Avila: the As one looks down on the Enthe of convent Dominican Monastery of San raggling AVILA, TERESA, AND THE CARMELITES. st of walls the Tomas, where in the free outgofrom arnacion c pass that and incomings of the Encarto realises ings Avila, one (By Peregrina.) will days, she used to come to be nacion precincts these within a for culously opened, took d she to where, summone obedience for confession. In a side chapel experience a thing unique upon him with her on her by the n six of tile great Gothic Church is she gives spent prioress, foundatio that soul Every this earth. Journeys, m and he a as d her. onths prisoner. shown the little grating at which counselle of spiritual urge the to up tself i Here, knelt, and where she had a at A the of she kneeling little group she huddled grating, God—shoots love—the love of received this vision is now painted a houses to Holy vision: joined make ion. convent, We Commun dark, dependthe into arrows its the wall: it is the Virgin on can us for the kneel Encarwhere she knelt. This San Jose stands like is ing that they will find a mark. Joseph placing on her with Saint is she as it did just her when chair, nacion, the brought from a mark found I And St. Teresa's of gold, having chain neck a is It f 1560. it choir, in upper as nd ounded only whereon with d languishe she that true 60 a shining white in her clothed in the small she the buried ,for and and sat has exiguous, Virgin '0 the returning arrow of the Jivof the purity symbol garment, narrow calle la de Cruz, since as that she within had prioress gate, very this to Here. ine. and live by. introduce would she came Teresa as a girl of eighteen. vision of the Virgin in her place, the city walls, as the Encarnabreathed Teresa Saint ps Perha cion, is city the walls, never without more has mortal occupied She was left by her brother, who from the spirit le indomitab her us. in -It large speaks commodio and lower it. the In steps leading -v Monastz. the to himself ok beto _Avila's of ue romanesq sturdy , poverty, her to ideal—confinement the the upper child choir, ' of San Tomas, at the other end arThat walls. and churches renuns The small numbers. on to the and Jesus her, appeared be—mie to there of the town, parts other in as here , chitecture with A permit of upper flight, Christ with the cross ceive me, their faces covered Dominican friar. survives, the Papal Nuncio. as is th.c ease at his side. In the upper choir, the black veil, they shuffle in un- of Spain, gloriously arch and Roman round with enclosed orders, opens this when she was prioress, the seats couth canvas sandals, being of with its moderate living relic to the female visitor, appeared to her one day filled the "unshod" or reformed observ- strong broad forms of gazed have must She height. not do they day this To ance. the since, w ever and ith angels, 1,1 and entering by a small this To infancy. from it on yard into the hall in front of the nuns ,sit on the wooden step be- use electricity; to preserve the recogdays her all who woman, their of memory of poverty the enclosure, one passes up steep neath. "por respeto a los angeles." , tapers nised the weakness and inferiorHer own nun's cell, of spacious foundation they take wooden steps on the left into the oil ity of women, and more particuburn and the house low-ceilinged locutorio (parlour). dimensions, for there she lived through Little winding stair.. larly of herself, it was given to where the Saint uses! to receive with three "educandas," where lamps. n her friend. The great house in she spent twenty-three years of cases lead us to the choir and the initiate and bring to a conclusio in tried had men many so what fitted now out saint, the of cell her time biesed more than a hun- her conventual life, has been, vain before her: the reform of dred nuns, mans' i f wheni haa: monastic observance, the rethe charge of "educandas," pupils of vival of the strict ideal now contheir family. It was like a glorformed to in thousands of conified boarding house and the exof the "unshod" Carmelvents tensive property, en •!osed by a The Carmelite reform. ites. high vall, and huge courtyard effected, was the besuccessfully show the numbers it once lodged. ginning of the effective reform of Brilliant, beautiful and beloved, the Dominican, Franciscan and as Teresa was, her temptation Trinitarian Orders: Teresa was was to speak much with the the inspiration and guide of a triends who came to see her. and Some world-wide movement. not to enclose herself in comday, perhaps, we shall wander in : mullion with Christ. In th:s litthe perfumed garden of Carmelite : • tle low parlour whereIsit cvaictraditions, and read the story of i ing the verdict of the prioress on (the this ancient community iHny request, she talked ot her beloved so once friars") "White ' difficulties with San Pedro de Alin England; how Teresa brought cantara and San Francisco Porja. back the sanctity of Father Eli; Beyond these doors, wi.ere For jah and Father Elisha. of St. shall soon pass, she of the Town of Avila, the birthplace struggled view s partial A Carmelite the these prophets with herself for e years restored to the Carmelite Order of Nuns their twentv-fiv who none Teresa, founders; their as claim before giving foundation. herself entirely to primitive Rule. In Avila, too, she made her first more recent would they recogCh.rist. We shall see the foot The very Vire-in herself nise! Prints of her spiritual journey— into a chapel; but as an oratory, though the low was their sister, and towards the converted now "e shall mark the spot where this prioress's cell, with wooden shelf at which she, wrote end of her life was prioress of a that revelation came to her above is her where she seated on the ground is still pre- Carmelite convent in Jerusalem. In the spiritual wood, we shall the little cupboard The served. In the choir they have .Christ delivered the Sermon on stored her manuscripts. , f ollow "steP by step the famous nuns say it is perfumed. No placed her effigy in the prioress's the Mount on Mount Carmel, and "Vida. she smiles on them. had had the privilege ur of sanctity (which by the chair; there odo le thing they who remarkab most The nUns, a the But incould detect) of educating the mother of the small group of way I failed to them, this convent are the her- Lord assisted with the Apostles bout a rethe for reverence one's receive me gladly. How crease the linink is where the most mitages in the garden: all as at the descent of the Holy Ghost. t hose pre- the community since ceptacle of pages three though them, left saint reanalysts of few sceptics had realistic Tredentine days! Only acute and As It In England a t wenty-two have been added. more Leade. experienc title to be brotheir oned questi unique or a tailed three of them now lost in the the nuns wish that great building, and as ing from the prioress's cell is a was her able to retire to utter thers of the Virgin: when there()he looks out from uld be fore a procession of the monks the cloister little oratorio, where she prayed, sho on to the like the ancien.t fathers filed through the town of Chester olitude, s and came angel the where courtyard deserted and neglected and when they desired, one day, a statue of Our Lady with its semi-plateres- pierced her heart with the arrow; of the desert, little oratories flue stone these had odded thrice, saving at each pillars, a feeling of met- through a tiny grating her cries she -cote; the ora- n dove a of fineholy out made wall the on heard; "These are my brothers." nod: were pain The possesses of one. , of Saint Nazarene c;rounds are no the of tory always blood; An English superior of the Order, less neglected, for are faint traces of the poor Saint Peter. Here Simon Stock, received, in Saint nuns have not even the victim of ill health, she had A ugustine. of are the pictures of the scourged the fourteenth century the famenough money to get night. every omitings v organ their r rist, of the revelation in the ous epaired and velvet The scapular. A lthough the Convent of the Ch They show me into aplayable. to Saint Augustine, just rden ga relaxCarthe Mount of of still Virgin robed is n ncarnacio large ante-room, E the picture al- as she left them and as her deCarmels, Carmelite white of her of with mel e observanc at Christ ed the \ pillat ,1,:hich them from the bearing sceptre - and Teresa had painted to aid though it has never followed in votees know in the oratory of ite cloak, m Here, ." "Vida daughgreat round the churits carried of is editation footsteps Child, of her nuns: ttte the 'dt Icture of , the Holy Ghost apthe congrewhile Spain, of Jesus and the Samari- ter, it claims the Saint as its own. the Nazarene ches her in the form of a to aen won-san peared from flee to had gation chant: which, at the death Yet Saint Teresa fe'; her her the four pre. father, she had brought it, to found without permission dove, and gave guidance of the. 'Santa, santa, santa Virgen del in"1 the another cepts for the family home. Here. her strict observance in Carmen." of stile lower the cell reformed Carmelite monks. and town. choir, is the statue quarter of the nos del Purgatori-)! Libra relic reliving another Yet aint Joseph with seen mouth mit- in the Encarnacion can be
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