iv asked this Q a week back, but i didnt get any answer: i am interested about it. and i wna know real interpretations from "YOU". tnx!
here iv pasted it:
the statue of St. Theresa with an angel... dont u find that blasphemous? she has become their saint.. but i dont think an angel wud have "slept" with her literally..if it was just a dream-i dont think it still sane to tell that... was that the reason why she became saint?? one might logically expect she is out-of-her-mind?? does the image present in any other catholic churches?? she had wrote how she had that experiance.. and i wud like to hear what the catholics have to say about this..
2006-06-08 14:24:28 · 2 answers · asked by chaotic_blakpearl 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The two focal sculptural figures derive from an episode described by Teresa of Avila in her autobiography, The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus (1515-1582), a mystical cloistered Discalced Carmelite reformer and nun.
The chapter describes divine visions, including one where she saw an angel standing aside her body:
I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron's point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it. The soul is satisfied now with nothing less than God. The pain is not bodily, but spiritual; though the body has its share in it. It is a caressing of love so sweet which now takes place between the soul and God, that I pray God of His goodness to make him experience it who may think that I am lying." Chapter XXIX; Part 17, Teresa's Autobiography
This is a mystical vision not sex.
Maybe the sculptor could have done a better job.
With love in Christ.
2006-06-10 17:25:25 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ana nicole said that a ghost slept with her.. maybe there should be a statue of ana nicole somewhere.. lol
2006-06-19 17:13:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋