The Doctors of the Church and St Teresa of Avila

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St Teresa of Avila is the First women Doctor in our Church! BiG This means she is in the Image of our Blessed Mother our Blessed Mother is Mother of the Church.

The Catholic Church has 10,000 Saints. Out of those ten thousand saints 36 have been given this special title for a very good reason. Doctors are our Guides. Surround our self with their knowledge and consecrate our Family to the 2 hearts of Jesus and Mary! Next stop Heaven, should be a smooth Journey!!
 
Trying for the Image of God here.

Jesus Christ our Lord was born of his Blessed Mother and his Father is in Heaven! We are born of our lovely Mother and our Father is in Heaven.

Someone Share a Good description of your Favorite Doctor of the Church Please! Yes!!
 
https://www.littleflower.org/therese/doctor-of-the-church/apostolic-letter-full-text/

Saint Therese of Lisieux encourages us in our attempts towards holiness in our vocation to love and serve. Of her own response to the call, she wrote, “This desire could certainly appear daring if one were to consider how weak and imperfect I was, and how after seven years in the religious life, I am still weak and imperfect. I always feel, however, the same bold confidence of becoming a great saint because I do not count on my own merits since I have none, but I trust in God who is Virtue and Holiness. God alone, content with my weak efforts, will raise me to Himself and make me a saint, clothing me in His infinite merits. I didn’t think then that one had to suffer very much to reach sanctity, but God was not long in showing me this was so and in sending me the trials I have already mentioned.” Therese remarked that such holiness may “not be evident to the eyes of mortals.”

We draw hope from this saint of ‘the consecrated ordinary’, whom Pope John Paul 2 declared a Doctor of the Church on October 19, 1997. Many Sisters in her Carmelite community were unaware of the holiness of her ‘ordinary’ deeds of kindness, and doubted that anything worthwhile could appear in her obituary circular. I implore God for ‘everyday’ love and trust such as Therese maintained before temptations of doubt and suffering. Like her, in ordinariness made holy by union with Jesus our God who lived ‘the ordinary life’, for 30 years prior to His public Ministry, (and thereby witnessed the ordinary life well-lived as sacred in God’s eyes) we must become shining lights in an era when disbelief, humanism and self-absorption prevail.

We ask God to give us dynamic confidence that holiness is not reserved for a favoured few. As Saint Paul taught, “ each soul is God’s favourite ” and God desires fulfilment of each person’s call to love God above all and others as self. Every person has a unique vocation and purpose, intended to enrich each other person’s soul for all eternity.
 
St Catherine of Siena was the first woman named a Doctor of the Church, (but it was only a couple weeks before St Teresa, so it is not a big deal). She was a persuasive woman who advocated for peace in Siena. This led to her nvolvement in political and religious controversies, all the way to calling for the Pope to return to Rome.
 
St Therese was so humble and trusted in God,even when times got really difficult. She was also really hilarious and spunky,two traits I admire a lot.
 
I enjoy to read what everyone had to share. It is uplifting to read about the lives of the saints and all their different personalities.

We can all become saints…the grace is available to us! We need to not get discouraged and cooperate with the Lord!
 
Of course Pope Benedict also named St. Hildegard a Doctor of the Church :).
 
St. Francis de Sales

He converted tens of thousands of heretics in France and Switzerland, in spite of several attempts being made on his life. And he’s the patron saint of the Catholic press. He wrote his famous Introduction To the Devout Life in 1610, and it has not been out of print since.
 
awesomecatholic said:
St Therese was so humble and trusted in God,even when times got really difficult. She was also really hilarious and spunky, two traits I admire a lot.
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I don’t know if it was her intent, but I’m reading The Interior Castle now and the way she writes of being ordered to write it certainly sounds sassy to me. 😁
 
Wesrock said:
I’m reading The Interior Castle now and the way she writes
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I, also, just began reading this book, and I am astounded; after two chapters I already feel I am reading someone on a par with St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, both of whom I delight in reading at length as my “Teachers” (none better, and now a third).

John Martin
 
The Carmelites have three holy Doctors of the Church:
St. John of the Cross
St. Terese of Avila
St. Therese of the Child Jesus

What a legacy for this order, in which I am a Third Order member. It is our vocation as members to study their writings and listen to the Holy Spirit as to how to follow them.
 
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St Teresa of Avila is the First women Doctor in our Church! BiG This means she is in the Image of our Blessed Mother our Blessed Mother is Mother of the Church.

The Catholic Church has 10,000 Saints. Out of those ten thousand saints 36 have been given this special title for a very good reason. Doctors are our Guides. Surround our self with their knowledge and consecrate our Family to the 2 hearts of Jesus and Mary! Next stop Heaven, should be a smooth Journey!!
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And now we have, since 2012, four:
  1. St. Hildegarde of Bringen, d. 1179 A.D. (O.S.B. Abbess)
  2. St. Catherine of Siena, d. 1380 A.D. (O.P. Third Order)
  3. St. Teresa of Avila, d. 1569 A.D. (O.C.D)
  4. St. Theresa of Lisieux, d. 1897 A.D. (O.C.D)
 
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