Prayer Request
Romans 3: 21-30; Psalm 130; Luke 11: 47-54
Jesus continues to “insult” those at table with him. Teresa in her reform of Carmel was probably accused of insulting the way things were. But she herself first had to be reformed, transformed by the grace of God. She might have joined the psalmist: “Out of the depths I cry to you! If you should mark iniquities, who could stand?” Paul explains quite clearly this dynamic of sin and grace which effected Teresa’s conversion as well as our own. “All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. They are now justified by his grace as a gift….For we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works prescribed by the law.” Teresa wasn’t evil, just mediocre in her middle age. Meeting Jesus, falling in love, made all the difference.
Ask the Spirit to remind you of the power of grace in your life. When have you cried to God “from the depths”? What happened? When, how have you met Jesus? If you are not yet, ask, BEG for the grace of falling in love with him.
Thank you, God, for Teresa, for her exuberant joy that led her to dance on the table tops to give her Sisters “pleasure”, for her passionate love for you and for her Sisters and John of the Cross.