The Healing Journey

October 15, 2025

St Teresa of Avila, a Carmelite nun, mystic and Doctor of the Church, was given the great privilege of experiencing Jesus throughout her life. In one of her most popular works about the interior life, “The Way of Perfection,” she talked about our home in Heaven:

“Among the many other joys, the principal happiness of Heaven appears to me to consist in a disregard of all earthly things and in a peace and glory that dwell in a soul which rejoices in the bliss of its companions. It lives in perfect peace and feels supreme satisfaction in seeing that all those around it honor and praise God and bless His name, and in knowing that they never offend Him. In Heaven everyone loves Him; the soul cares for nothing but loving Him: It cannot cease to do so because it knows Him as He is. If only we really knew Him we should do the same in this world, although not so constantly and so perfectly as in Heaven; yet very differently from what we do now.”

She often reflected on the inevitability of death and once said: “Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life, which is short and has to be lived by you alone; and there is only one Glory, which is eternal. If you do this, there will be many things about which you will care nothing.”

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