The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol. 2 (includes The Way of Perfection and The Interior Castle)

The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol. 2 Includes The Way of Perfection and The Interior Castle Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD and Otilio Rodriguez, OCD First published in 1980, Volume Two of the acclaimed Kavanaugh-Rodriguez translation of The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila contains two of Teresa’s most popular works, The Way of Perfection and The Interior Castle, as well as one of her smaller works, Meditations on the Song of Songs. The Way of PerfectionShortly after writing The Book of Her Life for her confessor, St. Teresa wrote The Way of Perfection at the request of her nuns who embraced the reformed Carmelite life she established. Here, St. Teresa gives them practical counsels and advice on prayer and contemplation. As a handbook for spiritual formation, it presents the basic Christian spirituality undergirding the Constitutions and Rule of the Discalced Carmelite Order. The principles and teachings in Teresa’s book clearly lend themselves to broader appli