Teresa of Avila recalls a vision in which an angel appeared before her and pierced her heart with a golden spear. Teresa describes being repeatedly penetrated by the angel, setting her on fire with a love for God, and causing her to moan in ecstatic bursts of pain. >I saw in his hands a long golden spear. This, he plunged into my heart several times into my heart, that it penetrated to my entrails. The pain was so severe that it made me utter several moans, and yet such pain was so exceedingly sweet that one cannot possibly desire it to cease. (St Teresa of Avila, 1515-1582)
How on fucking earth was this woman made a saint? The more saints I read about the more I come across who didn't really even do anything special. It's like they just started sainting people willynilly
>How on fucking earth was this woman made a saint? have you read her writings? studied her life?
or do you just focus on the semi-pornographic bernini sculpture, as if that's the length and breadth of her contribution to Christianity?
Juan Scott
This stuff is literally smut >the angel penetrated me with his giant golden cock that was as big as a spear and made me feel amazing That's basically what she said. And then on top of that she tries to make normal sexual feelings be HOLY in some twisted way.
>literally smut >a single line from her autobiography, that does not figure at all in her actual writings okay user.
try reading the interior castle or the way of perfection and maybe you'll get 'em next time.
Evan Williams
Females shouldn't be saints. The vast majority of them practically just showed up somewhere and were automatically sainted
Jason Stewart
Yes, a paragraph in her autobiography is LITERALLY smut
Angel Collins
This is just your twisted interpretation of her words. Can you really not read to word "penetrate" without thinking about sex?
I don't even like the cunt but you're being stupid.
Leo Roberts
>I saw in his hands a long golden spear. This, he plunged into my heart several times into my heart, that it penetrated to my entrails. The pain was so severe that it made me utter several moans, and yet such pain was so exceedingly sweet that one cannot possibly desire it to cease. (St Teresa of Avila, 1515-1582) >i i its its n not s sexual i sw sw swear
Benjamin Nguyen
Christians are fucking animals
David King
>semi-pornographic bernini sculpture
>look it up
wow that's lewd. how'd he get away with it Veeky Forums
Eli Rogers
Sick
Jonathan Hernandez
Mother Teresa was a fraud inb4 tips fedora.
Hudson Martin
The fact that she spent whole her life helping sick and poor people and you spend yours sitting on your fat ass telling other people to kill themselves over the internet
Andrew Parker
there are three Saint Theresas in the Catholic Church and you two are talking about the wrong one
Grayson Rogers
>don't be a total bitch >become a saint Female fucking privilege
Jason Sanders
Yeah I guess spending most of her waking time helping sick people and comforting them means "just not be a total bitch"
Nathan Jackson
>Yeah I guess spending most of her waking time helping sick people and comforting them means "just not be a total bitch" It doesn't mean you should be made a saint either
Kevin Murphy
Wtf
Ryder Turner
Christians are hypocrites through and though
Andrew Wood
Wrong Teresa you daft cunts
Why do you automatically think about sex when you read about phallus shaped objects?
Tyler Young
Oh it's not just the spear part. It's clearly sexual
