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Mind Map by rachelcarr, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by rachelcarr
almost 11 years ago
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ST. TERESA OF AVILA
- EARLY YEARS
- BORN IN AVILA IN SPAIN IN 1515
- HER MOTHER DIED WHEN SHE WAS 13
- SHE WAS A DIFFICULT TEENAGER
- BORN IN AVILA IN SPAIN IN 1515
- CARMELITE
MONASTERY FOR
INCARNATION
- IN HER EARLY TWENTIES
SHE RAN AWAY FROM
HOME AGAINST HER
FATHER'S WISHES TO
JOIN THE CARMELITE
MONASTERY IN AVILA
- THIS MONASTERY WAS
CORRUPT. NUNS COULD...
- INVITE
FRIENDS
AND
FAMILY TO
THE
CONVENT
- WEAR
JEWELLERY
- CHARGE
MONEY IN
EXCHANGE FOR
SPIRITUAL
GUIDANCE
- INVITE
FRIENDS
AND
FAMILY TO
THE
CONVENT
- THEREFORE, THERE WAS
LITTLE TIME FOR PRAYER
AND SILENCE
- IN HER EARLY TWENTIES
SHE RAN AWAY FROM
HOME AGAINST HER
FATHER'S WISHES TO
JOIN THE CARMELITE
MONASTERY IN AVILA
- PRAYER
- TWO YEARS AFTER
JOINING THE CONVENT
TERESA CAUGHT
MALARIA
- SHE WAS PARALYSED
FOR 3 YEARS
- DURING THIS TIME
TERESA DEVELOPED A
GREAT LOVE FOR SILENT
PRAYER
- SHE WAS PARALYSED
FOR 3 YEARS
- AFTER HER RECOVERY SHE
RE-INDULGED IN THE
LUXURIES OF THE
MONASTERY AND FORGOT
ABOUT PRAYER
- 15 YEARS LATER, AT AGE
40, TERESA HAD A
RELIGIOUS AWAKENING AND
VOWED NEVER TO OFFEND
GOD AGAIN
- TWO YEARS AFTER
JOINING THE CONVENT
TERESA CAUGHT
MALARIA
- CARMELITE MONASTERY
OF ST. JOSEPH
- TERESA DECIDED TO
FOUND A NEW
MONASTERY
- THERE WAS A BIG
FOCUS ON PRAYER AND
SILENCE IN THIS MONASTERY
- HERE TERESA WROTE HER
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND SEVERAL
BOOKS ON PRAYER, FOCUSING
ON CONTEMPLATION
- TERESA DECIDED TO
FOUND A NEW
MONASTERY
- TERESA'S TEACHINGS OF PRAYER
- TERESA USED THE SYMBOLISM OF
WATERING A GARDEN TO DESCRIBE
HER METHOD OF LEARNING TO PRAY
- STAGE 1: WATERING THE GARDEN WITH
A BUCKET. THIS TAKES TIME AND
EFFORT BUT WITH ENOUGH
PERSEVERANCE YOU WILL SUCEED
- STAGE 2: WATERING THE GARDEN
WITHA WATER WHEEL. THIS TAKES
LESS TIME AND EFFORT BUT
YIELDS GREATER RESULTS
- STAGE 3: USING A
STREAM TO WATER THE
GARDEN. AS A RESULT OF
PREVIOUS EFFORT PUT IN
WATER FLOWS THROUGH
THE GARDEN, WATERING
IT EASILY. IT BECOMES
EASIER TO E A
RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
- STAGE4: RAIN,
THIS TAKES
ALMOST NO
WORK BUT
YIELDS GREAT
RESULTS. YOU
NOW HAVE AN
OPEN CHANNEL
BETWEEN
YOURSELF AND
GOD
- TERESA USED THE SYMBOLISM OF
WATERING A GARDEN TO DESCRIBE
HER METHOD OF LEARNING TO PRAY
- LATER LIFE AND AFTER DEATH
- TERESA SPENT HER FINAL
YEARS TRAVELLING THROUGH
SPAIN TEACHING ABOUT THE
RELIGIOUS WAY OF LIFE
- SHE ALSO SET UP
MANY MORE
CARMELITE
MONASTERIES
- IN 1970 SHE WAS
GIVEN THE TITLE '
TEACHER OF PRAYER'
- SHE WAS THE FIRST
WOMAN DOCTOR OF
THE CHURCH
- TERESA SPENT HER FINAL
YEARS TRAVELLING THROUGH
SPAIN TEACHING ABOUT THE
RELIGIOUS WAY OF LIFE
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