{"id":2725,"date":"2020-05-12T09:07:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T08:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2020-05-12T09:07:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T08:07:16","slug":"st-teresa-of-jesus-avila-1515-1582","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=2725","title":{"rendered":"St Teresa of Jesus (Avila) 1515-1582"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>St Teresa of Jesus (Avila) 1515-1582<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>St Teresa was a Carmelite Nun, who reformed the Carmelite Order by restoring it\u2019s original charism of austerity and contemplation, which had somewhat through time been diminished. This was for her, a difficult and painful journey which cost her personally, as she encountered much opposition and much misunderstanding. She was the first female saint to be a Doctor of the Church, that she was deemed to have significantly contributed to the doctrine and theology of the church, through study, research and writings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;<\/strong><strong>May today, there be peace within.\u00a0May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.\u00a0May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.\u00a0May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.\u00a0May you be content knowing you are a child of God.\u00a0Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.\u00a0It is there for each and every one of us.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Teresa of Jesus (Avila) 1515-1582 St Teresa was a Carmelite Nun, who reformed the Carmelite Order by restoring it\u2019s original charism of austerity and contemplation, which had somewhat through time been diminished. This was for her, a difficult and painful journey which cost her personally, as she encountered much opposition and much misunderstanding. She &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/?p=2725\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-ryan-black","post-2725","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p85OtW-HX","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}