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Hi, I'm Father Jim Martin.

I'm about to lead you through a traditional Jesuit prayer

to help you notice where God has been in your day.

But first, here's our weekly reflection.

This week we celebrate one of the greatest of all saints,

Teresa of Avila, the 16th century Carmelite,

who was also a great reformer, an author, and mystic.

She was also very funny.

The first line of her famous autobiography reads,

Having virtuous and God-fearing parents would have been enough for me to be good, if I were not so wicked.

She also wrote,

A sad nun is a bad nun.

I am more afraid of one unhappy sister than a crowd of evil spirits.

But to reduce Teresa to a joke machine would be deeply unfair.

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