Incredible Teresa
October 15th, Memorial of Saint Teresa of Avila.
Dear brothers and sisters in a West that has once again become "madly pagan" (as Mother Liliana del Paradiso put it), where cults devoted to false idols flourish and spread idols of the "self" placed above everything and everyone, of the body *alone*, of emotions *alone*, and of the demand for "everything right now" in a time reduced to the "here and now" Saint Teresa of Avila can help us rediscover the "hidden treasures" lying beyond the walls erected by these idols. She an exceptional woman, as Saint Paul VI described her, a mystic and a teacher of life and prayer leads us to the great Beauty that is God, the splendor of the immortal soul, the incredible "rational power" of the mind, and the luminous, eternal hope that awaits us in the future.