Hello dear readers! :) I am sorry I missed two Sundays, but I will stay on my game for now. :) Here are some lovely poems by the wonderful St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross to start your week. I wish I could add pictures, but the "picture add-er thing" isn't working. The poems are beautiful however! Enjoy!
God Alone is Enough
Let nothing upset you
let nothing startle you
All things pass;
God does not change
Patience wins
all it seeks
Whoever has God
lacks nothing
God alone is enough.
-Saint Teresa of Avila
Christ has No Body
Christ has no body but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
Compassion on this world,
Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good,
Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.
Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,
Yours are the eyes, you are his body.
Christ has no body now but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
compassion on this world.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
Compassion on this world,
Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good,
Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.
Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,
Yours are the eyes, you are his body.
Christ has no body now but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
compassion on this world.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
-Saint Teresa of Avila
The Living Flame of Love
How gently and lovingly
You wake in my heart,
Where in secret you dwell alone;
And in your sweet breathing,
Filled with good and glory,
How tenderly You swell my heart with love.
You wake in my heart,
Where in secret you dwell alone;
And in your sweet breathing,
Filled with good and glory,
How tenderly You swell my heart with love.
-Saint John of the Cross
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