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Vatican City, Jul 16, 2012 \/ 10:35 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Pope Benedict XVI believes that 16th-century Saint Teresa of Avila is a model for current efforts to launch the New Evangelization.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe ultimate goal of Teresa\u2019s reform and the creation of new monasteries in a world lacking spiritual values was to protect apostolic work with prayer,\u201d the Pope said July 16.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cToday too, as in the sixteenth century, in the midst of rapid transformation, it is important that trusting prayer be the heart of the apostolate, so that the redeeming message of Jesus Christ may sound out clearly and dynamically,\u201d he added.
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\n\tPope Benedict made his comments in a letter to Bishop Jesus Garcia Burillo of Avila, Spain for the 450th anniversary of St. Teresa founding the Monastery of St. Joseph, which marked the beginning of her Carmelite reform.<\/p>\n

\tIn promoting a \u201cradical return\u201d to a more austere form of Carmelite life, St. Teresa sought \u201cto create a form of life which favored a personal encounter with the Lord,\u201d the Pope explained.<\/p>\n

\tRather than harking back to the past, however, St. Teresa presented \u201ca new way of being Carmelite\u201d to \u201ca world which was also new,\u201d Pope Benedict observed. He quoted the Spanish saint\u2019s own writings to her religious sisters in which she summed up the \u201cdifficult times\u201d in which they lived.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe world is on fire,\u201d wrote St. Teresa of post-Reformation Europe. \u201cMen try to condemn Christ once again. They would raze His Church to the ground. No, my sisters, this is no time to treat with God for things of little importance.\u201d
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\n\t\u201cDoes this luminous and engaging call, written more than four centuries ago by the mystic saint, not sound familiar in our own times?\u201d asked Pope Benedict in response.<\/p>\n

\tIn the \u201cexhilarating task\u201d of the New Evangelization, he said, the example of St. Teresa should inspire all Christians because she \u201cevangelized unhesitatingly, showing tireless ardor, employing methods free from inertia and using expressions bathed in light.\u201d
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\n\t\u201cThis remains important in the current time,\u201d said the Pope, \u201cwhen there is a pressing need for the baptized to renew their hearts through individual prayer in which, following the guidance of St. Teresa, they also focus on contemplation of Christ\u2019s blessed humanity as the only way to reach the glory of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

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