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| St. Teresa de Jesus de Los Andes |
History
Saint Teresa de Jesus de Los Andes is Chile’s first saint. She was
born in 1900 and named Juanita. At her Catholic school, she read about Saint
Therese of Lisieux, the Caremlite sister. When Juanita was 14, she entered a
Carmelite monastery and took the name Teresa de Jesus. She wrote to her sister,
“How happy I am…I’ve been captured in the loving nets of the Divine Fisherman.”
Her love for Jesus was so great, that He was all she thought about. She died at
the age of 19 from typhus, but even though she didn’t live long, her whole life
was one of devotion to Christ.
Activity
Carmelites live apart from the world so they do not get distracted by
other things and can really focus on Christ. Sometimes, it’s harder for us when
we have work, school, families, friends, activities, television and many other
things that beg for our attention. Saint Teresa de Jesus wrote, “I am God’s. He
created me and is my beginning and my end.” We often refer to Christ as the
Alpha and Omega, because alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet and
omega is the last letter – the beginning and the end. Today, color this pictureof Jesus as the Alpha and Omega, and hang it somewhere to remind you to put
Jesus first all day, every day.
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