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   July 13th -  St. Juanita Fernandez Solar, Seer   
    1900-1920   
      
   Juanita Fernandez Solar was born in Santiago de Chile, on 13 July 1900. When   
   she   
   had completed her schooling, she entered the Carmelite monastery of Los   
   Andes in   
   order to make a hidden offering of her life for mankind. Having taken the   
   name   
   Teresa of Jesus, she had been in the monastery for just eleven months when   
   she   
   died of a painful illness on 12 April 1920. On the day of her death, and   
   ever   
   since, huge crowds of people were mysteriously drawn to Los Andes. They go   
   in   
   search of one who knew how to love.   
      
   Her life had been brief and simple but filled with love. In a letter to her   
   brother Luis dated 11 June 1919, shortly after she had entered the   
   monastery,   
   she wrote "How fortunate I am to sacrifice all for God! But this all is   
   nothing   
   in comparison to what Our Saviour sacrificed for us, from the crib to the   
   Cross,   
   from the Cross even to humbling Himself completely under the form of bread.   
   He,   
   wholly God, under the species of bread, and even to the consummation of   
   time. Oh   
   the grandeur of infinite love! A love which is not known, a love which is   
   unreturned by the majority of men... You ask me to assure you in my letters   
   that   
   I love you always as a sister. Do you doubt it for an instant? Perhaps you   
   do   
   not know that my heart is perfected by the divine love, and the more perfect   
   it   
   is, the greater and more profound is my love? Well, then, do not doubt for a   
   moment that I pray for you and that my prayer is a song of love... When one   
   is   
   in love, he cannot talk about any other object than his beloved. And when   
   the   
   beloved unites in himself every possible perfection, what then? I do not   
   know   
   how I can do otherwise than contemplate him and love him. What do you want,   
   if   
   Jesus Christ, that Madman of love, has driven me mad? I endure a martyrdom,   
   Luis, when I see noble and well born hearts, hearts capable of loving what   
   is   
   good, not loving the immutable Good..."   
      
   From the time she was a child, St Teresa of Jesus spoke familiarly with God   
   and   
   with His Mother Mary. She learned to be faithful to the Lord, and to use her   
   natural human talents accordingly. She achieved a balanced life, serenity   
   and   
   maturity, all of which are anxiously sought after in the world today.   
      
   Known now as St Teresa of Los Andes, she was beatified by Pope John Paul II   
   in   
   Santiago de Chile on 3 April 1987 and canonized by him in Rome on 21 March   
   1993.   
      
      
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   Some thoughts of St Teresa of Los Andes   
      
   "Who can make me happier than God? I find all things in Him."   
      
   Always look for God. In Him is the source of all bliss. Apart from Him,   
   happiness is impossible. God alone suffices... Men's hearts love one day and   
   on   
   the next they are indifferent. God alone never changes.   
      
   I shall take great pains to work for the happiness of others... My   
   resolution:   
   to sacrifice myself for others.... I must strive to be more loving.   
      
   A believing soul possesses all things because it possesses God... Everything   
   changes when you look at this divine Sun... With faith, sufferings are   
   transformed.   
      
   When you are in love, everything is a joy; the cross is no burden and you   
   are   
   unaffected by martyrdom; you live in heaven rather than on earth.   
      
   How your life would be transformed if you went to Jesus often as to your   
   intimate friend! Let us take notice of our neighbour and serve him, even   
   though   
   we find it repugnant to do so. In this way we will find that the throne of   
   our   
   heart will be occupied by its Owner, by God.   
      
   In the shadow of the Cross, all bitterness vanishes... Souls are shaped on   
   the   
   anvil of sorrows.   
      
   To lovingly offer ourselves to the Father in order to accomplish his   
   adorable   
   will. This I reckon is the plan of holiness.   
      
   God is thirsting for the love of His creatures. The same God is our beggar.   
   Let   
   us give ourselves to Him. Let us not be mean... Let us not look at what we   
   are   
   doing, but at the extent of our failure to correspond to His love.   
      
   Always take the Most Blessed Virgin as your model. Speak to her, heart to   
   heart... Ask her to be your guide, to be your star, the lighthouse which   
   shines   
   in the midst of the darkness of your life.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   A great help to you always be a great love for, and unlimited confidence in,   
   Our   
   Blessed Lady, Help of Christians, Mother of God, and your Mother also. She   
   says   
   to you: "Whoever is little, let him come to me." If you will love her, she   
   will   
   shower on you many graces in this life, and be an assurance to you of   
   Heaven -St. John Bosco   
      
   Bible Quote   
   For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his   
   wife, and they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two,   
   but   
   one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.   
   (Matt. 19:5-6)   
      
      
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   An Offering of the Holy Face of Jesus Christ   
      
   Eternal Father, turn away Your angry gaze from all guilty   
   people whose faces have become unsightly in Your eyes.   
   Look instead upon the face of Your beloved Son, for this is   
   the Face of Him in whom You are well pleased. We now   
   offer You this Holy Face, covered with shame and   
   disfigured by bloody bruises, in reparation for the crimes   
   of our age, in order to appease Your anger, justly   
   provoked against us. Because Your divine Son, our   
   redeemer, has taken upon His head all the sins of His   
   people that they might be spared, we now beg of You,   
   Eternal Father, to grant us mercy. - Amen.   
      
      
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   O Queen of Heaven, thou gavest to us the Scapular as an outward sign by   
   which we   
   might be known as thy faithful children. May we always wear it with honor by   
   avoiding sin and imitating thy virtues. Help us to be faithful to this   
   desire of   
   ours.   
   (pause and mention petitions)   
      
   Recite: Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be   
   Our Lady of Mount Carmel, pray for us.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)