De amor e de dor: a experiência mística de Santa Teresa D’avila

Abstract

That work search to analyze, with base in the writings4 of Teresa of Jesus, later Ávila Santa Teresa, (1515 -1582); that it forms the suffering appears in that saint's history, and like him it can link with the mystic type that she presents. The one that Teresa lives, she lives him in the body, the communion with the Lord is as a marriage, the joy and the ecstasy are lived in pain conditions and pleasure, human attributes that will be the entrance doors of the Absolute for Teresa's mystic experience. And it will be the will, that characteristic human present in the mystics' experiences, that she will make to argue us regarding the suffering, of the experience of physical and moral pain of Teresa, doing the crucible of human donation of that characteristic that she could offer to participate of the encounter with the Absolute. Like this, we understood that the importance of the study on the inclination of the suffering in Teresa's mystic experience will be it of bringing to the light this saint's humanity, and analyzing for that way, to understand like her could locate in that contact with the divine. And, more than that, as she could translate that suffering in love, living it as blessing of God, and only suffering for the what really made her necessary, to be the soul in nuptialses with her Beloved.