Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila

26. Jérôme Gratien, Glanes, Quelques brèves additions de la main du père Jérôme Gratien à la première biographie de Thérèse d’Avila par le père Francisco de Ribera, presented by Fr. Pierre Sérouet (Laval: Carmel de Laval, 1998).

27. Letter 98, to María Bautista, December 30, 1575, CL 1:245.

28. Testimonies, 22:2, CW 1:397.

29. Life, 22:6, CW 1:194.

30. Way, 24:3, 5, CW 2:129, 130.

31. Exod. 4:30.

32. John 1:23.

33. Medit., 1:1, CW 2:216.

34. Medit., 1:8, CW 2:219 (adapted).

35. Life, 25:11, CW 1:217.

36. See Mino Bergamo, L’anatomie de l’âme: De François de Sales à Fénelon (Grenoble: Jérôme Millon, 1997), 135 sq: “essential foundation,” “fond essentiel.”

37. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time: A Translation of Sein und Zeit, trans. Joan Stambaugh (New York: State University of New York Press, 1996), vol. 2, chap. 2, § 57, p. 253: “The caller, too, remains in a striking indefiniteness…leaves not the slightest possibility of making the call familiar.”

38. Heidegger, Being and Time, vol. 2, chap. 2, § 55, p. 251: “Vocal utterance is not essential to discourse…a ‘voice’ of conscience,…which can factically never be found, but ‘voice’ is understood as giving-to-understand.”

39. Life, 22:8, CW 1:194–95.

40. Life, 22:1, CW 1:191 (adapted).

41. Life, 22:16, CW 1:199.

42. VII D, 3:13, CW 2:442.

43. Testimonies, 5, CW 1:386.

44. Ps. 119:32: “Dilatasti…”

45. IV D, 2:5, CW 2:324.

46. Testimonies, 39, CW 1:409.

47. Heidegger, Being and Time, vol. 2, chap. 2, § 56, p. 252: “The call [like the babbling voice] does not say anything…has nothing to tell.” Cf. Jean-Louis Chrétien, The Call and the Response, trans. Stephen E. Lewis (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004).

48. VI D, 9:6, CW 2:412.

49. Way, 7:8, CW 2:70.

50. Way, 17:5, CW 2:100.

51. Life, 22:15, CW 1:199.

52. Life, 22:8, CW 1:195.

53. Life, 22:7–10, CW 1:194–96.

54. VI D, 6:3, CW 2:392.

55. Life, 22:10, CW 1:195.

56. Ibid.

57. VI D, 11:3, CW 2:422.

58. VI D, 6:10, CW 2:395.

59. I D, 1:1, CW 2:283.

32. ACT 3: HER “LITTLE SENECA”

1. John of the Cross, “Commentary Applied to Spiritual Things,” in The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, trans. Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez (Washington, D.C.: Institute of Carmelite Studies, 1973), 734.

2. Letter 194, to Ambrosio Mariano, May 9, 1577, CL 1:33.

3. John of the Cross, Ascent of Mount Carmel, book 2, chapter 12, trans. and ed. E. Allison Peers (Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Burns & Oates, 1983), 103: “all the detachment of the exterior senses…”

4. Ibid., 106.

5. Ibid.

6. Testimonies, 59:11, CW 1:428–29.

7. John of the Cross, “More Stanzas Applied to Spiritual Things on Christ and the Soul,” in Collected Works, 722.

8. John of the Cross, Letter 33, October — November 1591, in Collected Works, 706.

9. John of the Cross, “The Living Flame of Love,” in Collected Works, 717.

10. VII D, 4:15, CW 2:450.

11. Francis Poulenc, Dialogues of the Carmelites, libretto, original text and English translation (Melville, N.Y.: Ricordi and Belwin Mills, 1957, 1959). (This cannot be consulted; trans. LSF.)

12. Sacra congregatio pro causis sanctorum, Positio super causae introductione servae Dei Teresiae Benedictae a Cruce (in saeculo Edith Stein) monialis professae ordinis carmelitarum discalceatorum (1891–1942), Rome, 1983, 322.

13. Isa. 53:5.

14. Edith Stein, Getsamtausgabe, 3 (1933–1942) (Freiburg: Herder, 2000–2001), 373, quoted by Cécile Rastouin, Edith Stein. Enquête sur la source (Paris: Cerf, 2007). Edith Stein’s Collected Works have been issued by the Institute of Carmelite Studies (Washington D.C.: ICS, 1992/2003) in an eleven-volume series involving various translators and editors.

15. Stein, The Hidden Life, in Collected Works, vol. 4, 92.

16. VII D, 4:14, CW 2:450.

17. Allusion to Edith Stein’s works, The Science of the Cross (Collected Works, vol. 6), dealing with John of the Cross, and The Hidden Life (Collected Works, vol. 4), hagiographic meditations and spiritual texts.

18. VII D, 3:13, CW 2:442.

19. VII D, 3:12, CW 2:442.

20. John of the Cross, “Song of the Soul that Rejoices in Knowing God Through Faith,” stanza 8, in Collected Works, 724.