Comments on: St. Teresa wrote on devotion to St. Joseph https://dev.airmaria.com/2012/10/15/st-teresa-wrote-on-devotion-to-st-joseph/ Breathe Freely Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:23:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Alex Antunes https://dev.airmaria.com/2012/10/15/st-teresa-wrote-on-devotion-to-st-joseph/comment-page-1/#comment-137507 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:23:23 +0000 http://airmaria.com/?p=30774#comment-137507 That’s a great text of St. Teresa! I have already read it and it’s very opportune for me reencounter it. I’m thinking I have to pray to St. Joseph more times.

Also I would like to share with you a excerpt of a Pope Benedict’s homily some years ago in Youndé, Camaroon, Africa. He visited a hospital and preach to the sick.

I think this part very interesting and helpful!

The saints have given us a fine example by living lives entirely dedicated to God, our Father. Saint Teresa of Avila, who placed her monastery under the protection of Saint Joseph, was healed from a particular ailment on the very day of his feast. She said she had never prayed to him in vain, and she recommended him to all who claimed not to know how to pray: “I do not understand”, she wrote, “how anyone can think of the Queen of angels and of all the trials she suffered during the early years of the divine child Jesus, without thanking Saint Joseph for the perfect devotion with which he came to assist them both. May anyone who lacks a teacher of prayer choose this admirable Saint as a master, for under his guidance no one need be afraid of going astray” (Life, 6). Saint Teresa saw in Saint Joseph not only an intercessor for bodily health, but also an intercessor for the health of the soul, a teacher of prayer.

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2009/march/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20090319_mondo-sofferenza_en.html

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