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The twenty-six spiritual conferences of Sister Miriam Teresa

Through the writing of the 26 spiritual conferences, under obedience to her spiritual director and with the permission of the Reverend Mother, Sister Miriam Teresa became the instrument of imparting to both religious and seculars her conviction that deep prayer, contemplation, and union with God are not incompatible with an active daily life.

Appearing in book form as Greater Perfection after the death of the Servant of God, the conferences have been widely circulated throughout the world and acknowledged as a source of great spiritual benefits to tens of thousands of readers.

Her message is timeless, fortified as it is with citings from Holy Scripture by a young author who was not schooled in the Scriptures. To many, then, the conferences have been a treasure of grace.

CONTENTS   I. The Will of God: Your Sanctification  II. The Sacrifice of the Mass: The Greatest Means of Sanctification III. The Sacraments: The Second Greatest Means of Sanctification  IV. Prayer: The Third Great Means of Sanctification   V. The "Word Made Flesh" for Our Sanctification  VI. The End of Existence: Sanctity; Union with God

In the final section of Greater Perfection, the spiritual conferences written by Sr. Miriam Teresa, she wrote:

Union with God, then, is the spiritual height God calls everyone to achieve – any one, not only religious but any one, who chooses, who wills to seek this pearl of great price, who specializes in the traffic of eternal good, who says ‘yes’ constantly to God…The imitation of Christ in the lives of saints is always possible and compatible with every state of life. The saints did but one thing – the will of God. But they did it with all their might. We have only to do the same thing; and according to the degree of intensity with which we labor shall our sanctification progress. (Greater Perfection, pp. 264-266)

OTHER WRITINGS BY SISTER MIRIAM TERESA

Biographies

Sister Mary Zita Geis, SC [1936]. Sister Miriam Teresa. New York: Benzinger Brothers. Conklin, Margaret [1946]. An American Teresa. Long Island City, NY: Color Graphic Press. Chambre, Renée (1970). Soeur Miriam Térèsa, Apôtre de l’unité (French).   Chambre, Marie-Térèse (1971). Sister Miriam Teresa, Apostle of Unity. Mahwah, NJ: The Unity League. Maynard, Theodore (1952) The Better Part. New York: The Macmillan Company.   ________________(1957). Great Catholics in American History. Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 235-242.   Blaško, Štefan (1984). Miriam Teresa – Faithful in a Little. Toronto: Maria – Magazine. ISBN 0-9691599-1-0.   Šencik, S.J., Štefan (1974). Kvet z Bardejovskích Zahdnov (Flowers of the Fields of Bardejov) (Slovak).

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