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Hey there, Sprouse. Today is Thursday, June 17th, 2021. Now, all week, I have challenged myself to convince you to spend at least one hour with Jesus this summer, more, if you like. So to do this, we have talked about the origins of Eucharistic adoration, how it came out of the Middle Ages. We've also heard from St. Mother

Teresa of Calcutta, how everything she did, all the strength that she had to love and serve the poor,

came out of Eucharistic adoration.

And yesterday we heard from venerable Fulton Sheen, who was dedicated to a holy hour his entire adult life and how we become like that which we gaze upon and how there

has nothing better to spend an hour gazing upon than Christ himself

in Eucharistic adoration. Now today we are going to talk about some common feelings that a lot of us have,

and we're going to hear from two great saints. We're going to hear from St. Teresa of Avala,

who is a Spanish nun, Spanish Carmelite nun. And then we're going to hear from St. Teresa of Avala, who is a Spanish nun, Spanish Carmelite

nun. And then we're going to also hear from a French Carmelite nun who lived hundreds of

years later, St. Therese of Lusseu. So first of all, St. Teresa of Avila. Now, she was a very

wise woman who had her own conversion story, but was very

dedicated to the Eucharist. At one point, one of the sisters in her community was sharing

with her, something that I think we can all relate to. You know, she felt that Christ was distant.

She loved him, but she felt like she couldn't really get to know him as well as she

wanted to. So she would read these stories from the gospel and be jealous of the apostles. And so she

shared with St. Teresa of Avala, you know, if only I had lived when Christ was alive, if only I could have touched him and talked with him.

And I have felt this way to Sprout. Sometimes when I read the story of Thomas the doubter,

I can feel a little jealous that Thomas was allowed to see the risen Lord to put his hands inside of Christ's wounds

and how that would have made belief so much easier. But St. Teresa of Avila, a very wise and

holy woman, simply turned to this other nun who was talking to her, and she said to her,

you know, we have Christ here in the

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