Life of St. Teresa of Avila written by Herself

By St. Teresa of Avila

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p.1 St. Teresa of Avila’s purpose for writing her autobiography
p.2 St. Teresa of Avila’s brief portrait of her holy parents
p.3 A portrait of the hearts of St. Teresa of Avila and her brother as children
p.5 The humility of St. Teresa of Avila in retrospect to her childhood
p.6 St. Teresa of Avila cautions parents about bad books and dressing up
p.8 St. Teresa of Avila’s advice to parents about their children’s companions from her own childhood experiences
p.10 St. Teresa of Avila recounting being sent to a monastery at about age 16
p.12 St. Teresa of Avila’s lost devotion begins to return during her stay in the monastery
p.14 St. Teresa of Avila begins to see the vanity of the world, and to resolve to be a nun
p.15 St. Teresa of Avila’s various struggles in her resolve to become a nun
p.16 St. Teresa of Avila is filled with an everlasting joy the moment she becomes a nun
p.18 St. Teresa of Avila admits how little she deserves God’s mercy and grace for having so long wasted them
p.19 St. Teresa of Avila’s illness leads her to a Book on Prayer and Recollection
p.21 St. Teresa of Avila begins, at 23 years old, to learn and profit from mental prayer
p.22 St. Teresa of Avila’s experience as a beginner in mental prayer, and how good books helped her through it
p.23 How God rewarded St. Teresa of Avila’s holy reading and good desires in the beginning of her devout life
p.24 St. Teresa of Avila’s interior life during her novitiate
p.25 St. Teresa of Avila prays for patience in illness and receives both
p.26 St. Teresa of Avila’s harmful experiences with imprudent and unknowledgeable confessors
p.27 St. Teresa of Avila and a Priest who both needed prudence and purity
p.30 St. Teresa of Avila suffers immensely from an illness and lets it conform her will to God’s
p.31 St. Teresa of Avila nearly falls into Hell during a dangerous illness
p.33 St. Teresa of Avila increases her resignation to God’s will through intense suffering and a long paralysis
p.35 St. Teresa of Avila strives earnestly to correct the path of her soul, but has no good confessors to help her avoid sin
p.35 St. Teresa of Avila avoids the sin of detraction and encourages others to do the same
p.36 St. Teresa of Avila lacks resignation to God, and takes St. Joseph as her patron
p.39 St. Teresa of Avila’s many sad experiences convinces her to humbly remain very close to God always, lest she fall into sin again
p.41 St. Teresa of Avila begins to fall through false humility
p.43 St. Teresa of Avila strongly warns of the dangers of lax monasteries and cloisters
p.45 St. Teresa of Avila ignores God’s strong desire that she quit a certain friendship, because she so much wanted to keep it
p.47 St. Teresa convinces her father to pray, though she does not pray herself
p.50 St. Teresa of Avila’s father dies
p.52 St. Teresa of Avila struggles internally because refuses to let go of either love of the world or love of God
p.53 St. Teresa of Avila recommends befriending those earnestly seeking God also
p.55 St. Teresa of Avila stresses the importance of befriending people who are also earnestly striving to be holy
p.57 St. Teresa of Avila begins to pray after many years of avoiding it
p.58 St. Teresa of Avila explains the benefit and nature of Prayer and how it comes from God’s mercy and love
p.60 St. Teresa of Avila reassures us that it’s far better to pray, even when we really don’t want to
p.63 St. Teresa of Avila alone begins to see, through persistence in prayer and spiritual reading, that she must withdraw her heart from the world
p.64 St. Teresa of Avila wrestles with the shadow of death
p.65 St. Teresa of Avila finally sees how much she wounds Jesus, and places all her confidence in Him and leaves none in herself
p.66 St. Teresa of Avila describes her simple methods of meditation
p.68 St. Teresa of Avila begins to read the Confessions of St. Augustine and grows closer to him and to God through it
p.69 St. Teresa of Avila describes being drawn by God away from spiritual dangers
p.70 St. Teresa of Avila explains the mercy of God’s gifts and our true humility in admitting them
p.73 St. Teresa of Avila explains the importance of striving for humility and to serve God in gratitude of His gifts
p.75 St. Teresa of Avila wishes out of true humility for her writings not to be published except her sins
p.77 St. Teresa of Avila explains how people don’t fully give themselves to God and yet expect to have Him fully

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