Lord,
we rejoice in celebrating Teresa, our Mother.
She is a sure guide on the journey in your footsteps,
for she is filled with the Holy Spirit;
He makes her a contemporary of the Church throughout the ages.
Today she would no doubt speak to us of synodality.
She who sought to bring together within her Carmelite communities
the uniqueness of each sister’s spiritual quest,
and the grounding and inspiring foundation of a beautiful communal life.
She wanted each sister’s journey to be supported and renewed by that of the others.