Our Heavenly Father, much like our earthly father, knows it is best for us to grow in all of our abilities and capabilities so that we can withstand adversity in a world where our enemies wish to rob us of our Godgiven innocence and enslave us to its malicious and destructive goals for us. more
The legend says at some point the statue came into the possession of St. Teresa of Avila, a Carmelite nun in the 16th century at a convent in Spain. She would go on to reform the Carmelite order, returning to a more strict life based upon a Rule of Life originally written in the early 1200s by St. Albert of Jerusalem, who was responsible for the Catholics in the Holy Land. more
