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10/15/26 Saintly Sassiness · Omnia Christus

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  SPEAKER_00: Today is the feast of St.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teresa of Jesus, St.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teresa of Nabila,
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  SPEAKER_00: who's an incredible saint and doc of the Church,
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  SPEAKER_00: beautiful and author of many moving things.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love the Carmelites, especially Teresa and John of the Cross.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's very worth reading, but Teresa of Nabila is also Very human.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's one of the things that you will immediately understand if you pick up her books.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, she was the cause of the conversion of St.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peter Stein,
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  SPEAKER_00: who took the name Teresa Benedetta of the Cross,
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  SPEAKER_00: and she was a famous Jewish intellectual in Germany just before
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  SPEAKER_00: the Second World War,
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  SPEAKER_00: who was converted to Catholicism pretty much by reading the autobiography of St.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teresa that way,
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  SPEAKER_00: because she took it Down from the shelf when she was sort of,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know, an early feminist and the advocate for women's rights.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then she found this book and she found this incredible woman,
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  SPEAKER_00: this incredible,
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  SPEAKER_00: strong, vivacious, the very human person who was held up by the church.
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  SPEAKER_00: She never read anything like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Teresa of Abba says things like,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: there's one time when she had trouble,
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  SPEAKER_00: I think they were sort of crossing where she was trying
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  SPEAKER_00: to found these different monasteries.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, they almost drowned and the river was flooded, et cetera.
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  SPEAKER_00: So she got out of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she said to Jesus, she said, well, this is the way you treat your friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: No wonder you don't have very many about them.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the sort of thing she would say.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's the way that she was, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: She's a very human person.
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  SPEAKER_00: She wasn't afraid to be honest with God.
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  SPEAKER_00: She wasn't afraid to treat God like a friend and to complain if,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know, she felt like she wasn't being very treated or if, you know, whatever.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's Teresa of Abba.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's a wonderful person,
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  SPEAKER_00: a wonderful saint, wonderful author and a wonderful human being so filled with life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she actually came to Jesus in a real sense at about 40 years of age.
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  SPEAKER_00: She had sort of squandered much of her early life.
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  SPEAKER_00: So she later on encountered Jesus and then had an incredible spiritual growth from there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's never too late.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's never too late to encounter God.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's always on offer.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can always come to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can come to God today.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can encounter God today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our lives can be transformed today and with the help and with the inspiration
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  SPEAKER_00: of saints like Saint Teresa of Abola,
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  SPEAKER_00: we too can become amazing saints But above all, by being ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we draw close to God, we don't become less of ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: We become more of ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: An amazing, original, crazy person that God has made each one of us to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is unleashed when we take away the slavery to sin and when we turn our lives to God.