Ave Maria Meditations
The life of Saint Teresa (of Avila) teaches us that we should never despair of becoming saints. As a child she was filled with a strange mysterious longing for martyrdom. But the early years of her religious life found her cold or tepid in the service of god, indifferent to the sacred duties of her state.
The call came. Sweetly in her ear sounded that little voice which too often in other souls has been hushed and stifled. Teresa rose. The past was gone and no lamenting could recall its ill spent days, but the present was hers, and the future lay before her.
Ungenerous in the past, generosity would be her darling virtue; (once) cold and careless, no one would now equal her burning love for her patient outraged Savior.
Servant of God, Fr. Willie Doyle
