You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints. This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute,

an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.

Hello, and welcome to Form Now. My name is Dr. Ben Acres and I'm the executive director of Formed.

Joining me today is a special guest. Her name is Annette Bergen. She is the executive director,

newly appointed executive director of Endow, which is an acronym, which stands for educating on the

nature and dignity of women.

It's a wonderful apostolate that we have here, headquartered in the Archdiocese of Denver,

but many different groups around the United States and probably the world even as well.

So Annette's going to join me today, and we're going to be talking about St. Teresa Vavila,

a wonderful saint.

My wife's confirmation saint, a saint I have

great devotion to. I was able to go and visit Avala just a year ago and go on pilgrimage to visit

some of the sites important to her life. Her dates are 15-1582, and she is a wonderful saint because she, I think she's very relatable. That's one of the

things that we're going to discuss, is how relatable she is. She's also known as a doctor of the

church. So not only is she a saint, known for her charity, the perfection of charity, the love of God,

and love of neighbor, but she's also a doctor of the church. And doctors of the church are

few and far between. They're highlighted for their wisdom, that they teach us about the purpose and plan of

God's life. And Pope Bank the 16th, Pope St. John, Paul II, have highlighted that in a

particular way, Teresa is a model for us on prayer. So that's one of the themes that we're going to be

talking about today is St. Teresa of Avila as a teacher of prayer. But first, Annette, would you mind tell us a little

bit about yourself and how you got involved with Endow? What Endow does? And then we'll move into

St. Teresa. That sounds great. That sounds great. So I have been involved with Endow for about 10 years. I started my first endow group

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