Welcome to our daily Rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Teresa of Avala is one of the greatest mystics in the history of the church.

Her supernatural experiences are absolutely astounding.

Visions of Jesus, direct conversations with him, levitations, out-of-body experiences,

she describes all these in her autobiography.

When you read the story of her ecstasies and revelations, you can't help

but marvel at her greatness. And yet, when you read carefully her autobiography and her other spiritual writings, she is very clear.

Growth or progress in the spiritual life is not measured by mystical experiences.

It's measured by growth in moral goodness.

It's measured by our conversion from the vices of pride, vanity,

envy, sloth, anger, greed, gluttony, and lust, our conversion from these to the virtues that enable us to

love God and love the people around us.

That's the true measure of spiritual progress.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow would be your name,

Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us to stay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into

temptation but deliver us from evil, Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women, blessed is a fruit of thy womb Jesus.

Holy Mary, mother of God, great for a sinner is known at the hour of our death,

Amen.

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