1. Teresa of Avila, The Book of Her Life in The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, 1, trans. Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D., and Otilio Rodriguez, O.C.D. (Washington, D.C.: ICS Publications, 1987), chap. 8, no. 12.

2. Ronald Rolheiser, The Holy Longing (New York: Doubleday, 1999), 27.

3. Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection, chap. 19, no. 2.

4. John of the Cross, "The Spiritual Canticle," in The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, trans. Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D. and Otilio Rodriguez, O.C.D. (Washington D.C.: ICS Publications, 1991), stanza 1.

5. John of the Cross, Spiritual Canticle, st. 7
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6. Marie Dennis, Renny Golden, Scott Wright, Oscar Romero (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2000), 19.

7. Ibid., 28.

8. Teresa of Avila, A Satirical Critique in The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, 3, 359-362.

9. Romans, 9, 16.

10. Ratio Institutionis Vitae Carmelitanae, #27.

11. Gunter Benker, "Open to the Future of God" in The Mission of Carmel for the Third Millennium (Melbourne: Carmelite Communications, 1999), 51.

12. John of the Cross, Spiritual Canticle, st. 36.

13. Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, The Second Dwelling Places, chap. 1, no. 2.

14. Master in Faith, Apostolic Letter of John Paul II in Walking Side by Side with All Men and Women (Rome: Institutum Carmelitanum, 1991), 22, 23.

15. John of the Cross, The Living Flame of Love, st. 1, number 12.

16. John of the Cross, The Living Flame of Love, st. 1, no. 36.

17. Carmelite Constitutions 1995, (Rome and Middle Park Victoria, Australia: Carmelite Communications, 1996), 5. The Rule may also be found in John Welch, O.Carm., The Carmelite Way (Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1996), 175-181.