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Picture books can be wonderful for children of all ages (and adults, too!)

Join us as we present 31 Days of Picture books. Chosen to delight every reader in your family, these kids books are ones you can read over and over again.

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What's the best way to introduce your kids to the lives and ideas of those who've gone before? We're talking about using picture book biographies with kids of all ages-- and we've got a HUGE list for you!

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Happy feast of St. Teresa of Avila! 😇 📚 🏰 🙏 She was a sixteenth century Spanish noblewoman and mystic who reformed the Carmelite order and furthered the Christian understanding of contemplative life and mental prayer through her writings. Her most famous work is The Interior Castle, written in 1577 as a guide for spiritual development through service and prayer. The work was inspired by her vision of the soul as a diamond in the shape of a castle containing seven mansions, which she interpreted as the journey of faith through seven stages, ending with union with God.

Along with her friend, St. John of the Cross, she worked to return the Carmelite order to its roots of poverty and contemplative prayer, after decades of laxity and intrusion of fashionable society into the monasteries and cloisters. She met with much resistance, but was eventually able to found the order of Discalced Carmelites. Her cell (room) in her cloister is preserved to this day, and you can see the bed in which she slept, and the log she used as a penitential pillow. She died of an illness in 1582. In 1970, she was proclaimed the first female Doctor of the Church in recognition of her centuries-long spiritual legacy to Catholicism.

Read The Interior Castle as a PDF http://www.carmelitemonks.org/Vocation/StTeresa-TheInteriorCastle.pdf
Or a book https://amzn.to/3ik58Om
Or in a children’s version https://www.jdoqocy.com/click-7795853-11555244?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ignatius.com%2FThe-Interior-Castle-P3667.aspx

Liturgical living resources including printable saint and feast day summaries for the month are available with a Catholic All Year Membership.