11 relations

I listened to all 11. The narrative is the interior life of a truly convicted Catholic like myself and some close friends. There are questions and answers, movements back and forth, shifts and up and down. Not all Catholics have an interior life, which begs the question: are they Catholic? Teresa talks about the life bypassing some associates. Modernists have not found it for lack of gratefulness.

Though not her purpose so to show, it is clear that one cannot have the life unless one is a Catholic. That is because one must be in a state of grace and reconciled to the Church. When one falls out of a state of grace, confession restores it, but non-Catholics do not have this sacrament. Find your way into the Church and begin this long process of the interior soul.

She even talks about leaving her father’s house, a tie too strong for me, for religious life, or a lesson given to me. She speaks of people laughing at her, and of someone willing to suffer death many times for another.

Her writing style consists of long, complex sentences, a style I favor, a style my editors said a modern audience cannot suffer.