Hello everyone! Heyo! Welcome back to Scattering Flowers with Elise and Miles, a podcast where you read the daily gospels and the saint of the day.
Let’s get started! Today is Monday, April 6th, and the gospel reading is Matthew 28, 8-15, and the scripture to reflect on is Matthew 28, 10.
Then Jesus said to them, do not be afraid.
When the woman first met the risen Lord, they felt a mix of emotion.
Jesus was alive, but what did it mean?
They were overjoyed to see him, but what were they supposed to do next?
We’re all unsure of ourselves sometimes.
We love God and want to follow Jesus, but how?
Today’s saint of the day is Saint Teresa of the Adams.
She was born 1900 and died 1920.
She is the patron saint of young people and the ill.
Born to a loving family, Chili was a loving girl.
Her character was marked by a loving spirit as well as a stubborn streak and vanity.
In her childhood, she read The Story of a Soul, the autobiography of Saint Therese of Lisieux.
This impressed her and planted in her desire to become a Carmelite nun.
After Chili made her first communion, she seriously revolved to follow the path of holiness.
She did her best to correct her faults and to show love to the path of holiness.
She did her best to also show love to others.
In her teenage years, she taught religion and helped the needy in the parish.
On May 7, 1919, she entered the Carmel and lived her new life with great intensity and zeal.
Now called Teresa of Jesus, she began to write many letters, sharing with friends and family her spiritual insights.
But she also knew that she was going to die young, so she shared with her confessor that God had told her of her impending death.
Soon after, she was struck with a bad case of typhus.
Seeing that her condition was fatal, her superiors allowed her to make her professing of vows early, even though she had not completed the novitiate.
Devotion to her spread after her death.
She was canonized the first Chilean saint by St.
John Paul II on 1993.
It’s okay if you don’t have all the answers to these questions.
You can get started by spending time in prayer or treating others with love or helping take care of the world.
Just try and keep on trying.
Though she was only 19 years old when she died, Teresa became a saint because she focused on one goal with laser-like intensity, holiness.
We can learn from her for the importance of settling our properties so that God has first place in our lives.
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Dear Jesus, help me to follow you in everything I say and do.
And help me that I might also make a gift of myself to you and to others.
St.
Teresa of the Andes, pray for us.
Amen.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Thank you so much for listening.
We’ll be back tomorrow scattering more flowers.
See ya!