We are in the middle of the first Teresian Jubilee, which began on October 15 of last year (feast of St. Teresa of Jesus), and will last until October 15, 2018. And paraphrasing Enrique IV, a visit to Ávila a mass is always well worth it. But if we also want this year divine indulgence through the saint, there are still more reasons to cross the walls and eat a steak as the last sin of gluttony to forgive. What is unforgivable is not having read Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, who was born on a day like today of 1515.

But in this life everything has a remedy except the Grim Reaper, as we all know. So from here, and in his memory, I choose these 5 poems that this Doctor of the Church left us, maximum reference of mystical poetry.

Brief note on Teresa of Jesus

The life of Saint Teresa and her spiritual evolution can be followed through her autobiographical works such as Life, Spiritual relationships or  Foundations book (which began in 1573 and published in 1610). There are also their almost five hundred letters. Founded the Order of the Discalced Carmelites and she was also its great reformer along with San Juan de la Cruz. Also wrote Path of perfection, The dwellings o Inner castle.

He used to compose poetry occasionally, inspired by pastoral and literary poems and rhymes that he learned in his youth. Then she was also fond of chivalric books. I choose these 5 that are surely my favorites.

poems

Love colloquium

If the love that you have for me,
My God, it's like the one I have you,
Tell me: where do I stop?
Or you, what are you stopping at?

-Alma, what do you want from me?
-My God, no more than seeing you.
-And what do you fear most about yourself?
-The thing I fear most is loosing you.

A hidden soul in God
What do you have to wish for,
but to love and more to love,
and in love all hidden
turn you back to love?

I ask you for a love that occupies,
My God, my soul has you,
to make a sweet nest
where it suits it best.

Nothing disturb you

Let nothing disturb you;
nothing scares you;
everything passes;
God does not move
patience
it reaches everything.
Who has God,
nothing is missing.
God alone is sufficient.

I live without living in my

I live without living in my
and so high life I hope
that I die because I do not die.

I already live outside of myself,
after I die of love,
because I live in the Lord,
that he wanted me for himself;
when my heart gave him he put this sign on me:
"That I die because I do not die."

This divine union,
and the love with which I live,
makes my God my captive
and free my heart;
and causes such passion in me
see my God prisoner,
that I die because I do not die.

Oh, how long is this life!
How harsh these exiles,
this jail and these irons
what is the soul involved in!
Just wait for the exit
it causes me such fierce pain,
that I die because I do not die.

He just left me
life, don't be annoying to me;
because dying, what remains,
but to live and enjoy myself?
Don't stop comforting me
death, that I require of you:
that I die because I do not die.

Dawn is coming

Blessed is the heart in love