God is all joy: St Teresa of Jesus of Los Andes (Jennifer Moorcroft)

Teresa of Jesus of Los Andes, Chile’s first canonized saint, was a vibrant young woman who loved sports and music and had a wide circle of friends. She entered Carmel and died only eleven months later. Thousands of people visit her shrine each month and young people see her as one of them, because she became a saint by the same sort of life as they do, in school, playing sports, enjoying her friends, living her faith to the full. ‘For her, God is infinite Joy. This is the new hymn of Christian love that rises spontaneously from the soul of this young Chilean girl, in whose glorified face we can sense the grace of her transformation in Christ.’ St Pope John Paul 11