May 6 - Icon in relief (St Teresa)

Authors: Carol Cade & Karen Mooney
Location: St John's Episcopal - Chicago

The saints give us an example an which to live. For St Teresa that was an example of a person working for justice and trying to stay out of trouble with the Vatican. (Her personal confessor was a spy sent to root out her mysticism and heresy.) Meanwhile she gave the world a view of how to bring God into the world. Harkening to the invitation in Micah 6:8 she states:

Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours, no feet but yours;
yours are the eyes through which 
Christ's compassion looks out on the world,
yours are the feet with which 
He is to go about doing good

and yours are the hands with which 
He is to bless us now.    
                                     Teresa of Avila